Journal club

General information

Where, what, when?

We meet weekly on Thursdays at 12:45 PM in L6. 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.

Add a paper

Suggest a topic

The arXiv collection

Arxiv Papers

Recent papers from our group

N=2 Super Yang-Mills in AdS4 and FAdS-Maximization - Christian 2506.05162
't Hooft Anomalies and Defect Conformal Manifolds: Topological Signatures from Modulated Effective Actions - Christian 2507.15466
Equivariant localization for D=5 gauged supergravity - James 2508.08207
The Classification of 3+1d Symmetry Enriched Topological Order - Matthew 2509.10603
Special Kähler geometries of N=4 superYang-Mills - Julius 2510.02057
From Partons to Strings: Scattering on the Coulomb Branch of N=4 SYM - Fernando 2510.19909
How to Build Anomalous (3+1)d Topological Quantum Field Theories - Matthew 2510.24834
Geometric Categories for Continuous Gauging - Devon, Matthew 2511.08254
Topological subregions in Chern Simons theory and topological string theory - Gabriel 2511.08746
Bouncing off a stringy singularity - Robin 2511.09616
Extremal couplings and gluon scattering in M-theory - Clément 2512.04057
Entanglement membrane in the Brownian SYK chain - Márk 2512.04179
Statistics and asymptotics of subdivergence-free Feynman integrals in ϕ4 theory - Paul-Hermann 2512.06898
Conformal collider bootstrap in N=4 SYM - Robin 2512.10796
Transversal Clifford-Hierarchy Gates via Non-Abelian Surface Codes - Alison, Sakura 2512.13777
F-theorem for Quantum Field Theories in Anti-de Sitter Space - Christian 2512.18392
The Self-Duality Equations on a Riemann Surface and Four-Dimensional Chern-Simons Theory - Lionel, Faroogh 2601.05309
A universal sum over topologies in 3d gravity - Boris 2601.07906
IIB an equivariantly localized puncture - Chris Couzens, Alice, James 2601.07598
Thermodynamics of ideal spin fluids and pseudo-gauge ambiguity - Akash 2601.14421
Quantum fluctuations in hydrodynamics and quantum long-time tails - Akash 2601.22140

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!