Journal club

General information

Where, what, when?

We meet weekly on Thursdays at 1:30 PM in L5. See the calendar below for the schedule.

Part I: We start each session with a short discussion of recent papers on the arxiv. +/- 15-20 min.

Part II: a talk by one of us about a topic of interest to the group. +/- 40min.

How to use this site?

Click on the "Add a paper" button to suggest a paper for the next ArXiv discussion. After filling out the form, your suggestions should appear in the list below. There might be some delay so don't panic and submit your form 1654 times.

Click on the "Suggest a topic" button to suggest a topic for a journal club talk. Leave a comment if you do not want to give this talk yourself but are interested in hearing about it.

About the talks

Journal club talks should be informal and on the whiteboard. In preparing your talk always keep in mind that the audience most likely does not know what you will talk about. There is no such thing as being too pedagogical. For some tips how to fabricate a good talk, have a look at Suggestions for giving talks . If you're not sure try to present (part of) your talk to peers.

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The arXiv collection

Arxiv Papers

Recent papers from our group

Airy functions from quantum M-theory - Florian, James 2607.07255
Odd-Dimensional Localization in Supergravity - Florian, James 2607.07621
OPE = QNM - Robin 2607.24909
Proliferation Transitions for Non-Abelian Anyons - Sakura, Andrea 2608.12303
G2-Manifolds from 4d N=1 Quivers - Oscar, Sakura 2608.21238
Decompactification and the Flat-Space Limit of AdS5 x S5 Master Correlators - Harshal 2609.05409
Strong coupling spectrum of AdS3 x S3 from string field theory - Fernando 2609.19266
Twisted {A(2N)} Argyres--Douglas theories: vertex algebras, Higgs branches, and double covers - Chris Beem, Harshal 2609.25212
AdS4 Celestial Symmetries: from Ambitwistor charges to CFT3 Light-Ray Operators - Alex, Adam, Lionel 2609.28633
Localizing the M-Theory Path Integral - Florian, James 2609.31829
Exact Recovery for Non-Abelian Surface Codes - Alison, Sakura 2610.03677
Localizing N=(2,0) AdS3 solutions of M-theory - Catherine, James 2610.07153
Out-of-time-order hydrodynamics and scrambling - Marta, Akash, Márk 2610.16888
Proliferation Transitions for Quantum Doubles of Groups - Yuhan, Sakura 2610.28253
3D de Sitter from complex Virasoro TQFT: Observers and knots - Boris 2610.30247
Fluids on null hypersurfaces and Carrollian hydrodynamics - Emil 2610.30254
Quantum field theory and four-manifolds: Perspectives from physics and geometry - Niklas 2610.30288
Timelike Supersymmetric Geometries in Seven-Dimensional Supergravity - Michèle 2610.31191
AlgebrasTQD: Computing Algebras and Interfaces in Twisted Quantum Doubles - Alison 2610.36029
Topological interfaces between universes and generalized families of 2d QFTs - Yuhan 2610.38680
Localization in Seven-Dimensional Supergravity - Florian, Michèle 2610.40514
5d SCFTs and Intersection Theory of Generalized Toric Threefolds - Sakura 2611.00366
Form Factors in AdS from the Worldsheet - Fernando, Clément 2611.06679

Journal club schedule

The next journal clubs will take place on the dates below.

To make this club work we need volunteers to give talks! All PhD students and postdocs: send an email to andrea.antinucci@maths.ox.ac.uk or clement.virally@maths.ox.ac.uk indicating on which day you want to give a talk. If you do not yet know what to talk about have a look at the topics above to get inspired.

Thank you!