Seminars and events
Join the Fields, Strings, and Geometry Group for an upcoming seminar or research event.
Seminar details
Time and day: We have a regular seminar slot at 2pm - 3pm on Tuesdays during term.
Venue: Seminars will be held in person in 39 AA 04.
Open to: Staff, postgraduate research students, and visiting researchers.
Please contact the organiser, Dr Andrea Prinsloo, for further details.
Upcoming seminars and events
We don’t currently have any upcoming events. Check back soon for further announcements.
Past seminars
Speaker: Onur Oktay (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 3pm - 4pm on Tuesday 2 May 2023
Title: Binary-coupling sparse SYK model: Spectral statistics and chaotic dynamics
Speaker: Suvajit Majumder (City University London)
Time and Date: 3pm - 4pm on Tuesday 25 April 2023
Title: The R-mAtrIx Net
Speaker: Leander Wyss (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 3pm - 4pm on Tuesday 14 March 2023
Title: Strings and Spins in Deformed AdS/CFT
Speaker: Roberto D'Onofrio (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 2pm - 3pm on Monday 27 February 2023
Title: Monge-Ampere Geometry and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Speaker: Daniele Bielli (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 3pm - 4pm on Tuesday 21 February 2023
Title: Non-abelian T-duality in superspace
Speaker: Benoit Vicedo (University of York)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 14 February 2023
Title: 2d integrable field theories from 4d Chern-Simons theory
Speaker: Lewis Napper (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 2pm - 3pm on Monday 6 February 2023
Title: Monge-Ampere Geometry and the Navier-Stokes Equation
Speaker: Edgar Perez Bolanos (King's College London)
Time and Date: 2pm - 3pm on Tuesday 6 December 2022
Title: Twisted covariant form hierarchies and hidden symmetries
Speaker: Sergei Ovchinnikov (University of Edinburgh)
Time and Date: 2pm - 3pm on Tuesday 29 November 2022
Title: Uniqueness of supersymmetric AdS5 black holes
Speaker: Arnab Kundu (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)
Time and Date: 2pm - 3pm on Tuesday 22 November 2022
Title: Synthesis of Dip-Ramp-Plateau, black holes and a semi-classical analysis
Speaker: Ben Hoare (Durham University)
Time and Date: 2pm - 3pm on Tuesday 15 November 2022
Title: Integrable deformations of Z2 and Z4 permutation cosets
Speaker: Fabrizio Nieri (Trinity College Dublin)
Time and Date: 2pm - 3pm on Tuesday 8 November 2022
Title: Spectral Duality in 2d CFT: Yangian W Algebras and Dual-AGT Correspondence
Speaker: Daniele Farotti (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 3pm - 4pm on Tuesday 1 November 2022
Title: Heterotic de-Sitter solutions
Speaker: Roberto Ruíz (Complutense University of Madrid)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 21 June 2022
Title: Bosonic strings on AdS3×S3 with Neveu-Schwarz-Neveu-Schwarz flux
Speaker: Vaibhav Gautam (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 7 June 2022
Title: Matrix Entanglement
Speaker: Juan Miguel Nieto Garcia (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 24 May 2022
Title: Jordan blocks and the Bethe ansatz: the eclectic spin chain as a limit
Speaker: Damián Galante (King's College London)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 10 May 2022
Title: De Sitter horizons and holography
Speaker: Daniele Farotti (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 26 April 2022
Title: Supersymmetric de Sitter solutions in D=11 supergravity
Speaker: Davide Cassani (University of Padua)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 29 March 2022
Title: Towards the quantum entropy of BPS AdS5 black holes
Speaker: Raghav Govind Jha (Perimeter Institute)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 22 February 2022
Title: Large N matrix models using Monte Carlo and Bootstrap
Speaker: Paul Ryan (King's College, London)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 8 February 2022
Title: Separation of variables and correlation functions in high-rank integrable systems
Speaker: Daniele Bielli (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 11 January 2022
Title: Super non-abelian T-duality of principal chiral and coset models
Speaker: Brandon Robinson (KU Leuven)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 7 December 2021
Title: Weyl anomalies for conformal defects
Speaker: Daniele Farotti (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 16 November 2021
Title: Supersymmetry Enhancement of Heterotic Horizons
Speaker: Jack Holden (University of Southampton)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 2 November 2021
Title: Global symmetries and partial confinement
Speaker: Julius Julius (King's College, London)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 12 October 2021
Title: Bootstrability for 1d defect CFT
Speaker: Vladimir Rubtsov (University of Angers)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 5 October 2021
Title: Quantization of Monodromy data for confluent Painlevé systems, Calabi-Yau 3-algebras and degenerated non-commutative del Pezzo surfaces
Speaker: Lorenzo Raspollini (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 27 July 2021
Title: Higher gauge theory, BV formalism and self-dual theories from twistor space
Speaker: Tommaso Macrelli (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 20 July 2021
Title: Homotopy algebras, gauge theories and gravity
Speaker: Paul Heslop (Durham University)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 11 May 2021
Title: Towards the Virasoro—Shapiro Amplitude in AdS5 × S5
Speaker: Chethan Krishnan (Indian Institute of Science)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 20 April 2021
Title: Hints of gravitational ergodicity
Speaker: Xizhi Han (Stanford University)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 16 March 2021
Title: Neural quantum state in matrix quantum mechanics
Speaker: Marcos Crichigno (Imperial College, London)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 26 January 2021
Title: Supersymmetry and quantum computation
Speaker: James Drummond (University of Southampton)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 17 November 2020
Title: Amplitudes, tropical geometry, and cluster algebras
Speaker: Andrea Fontanella (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 13 October 2020
Title: Classical integrability in Lie algebra expanded coset sigma models
Speaker: Severin Bunk (University of Hamburg)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 22 September 2020
Title: Symmetries of gerbes and applications in geometry and physics
Speaker: Tommaso Macrelli (University of Surrey)
Time and Date: 2pm - 3pm on Tuesday 1 September 2020
Title: BV formalism, QFT, and gravity: a homotopy perspective
Speaker: Nabil Iqbal (Durham University)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 16 June 2020
Title: Toward a 3d Ising model with a weakly coupled string dual
Speaker: Yuta Hamada (APC, Paris Diderot University)
Time and Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 2 June 2020
Title: Weak gravity conjecture from unitarity and causality
Speaker: Ines Aniceto (University of Southampton)
Date: 4pm - 5pm on Tuesday 12 May 2020
Title: Integrable field theories with an interacting massless sector
Speaker: Stefano Speziali (Swansea University)
Date: Tuesday 10 March 2020
Title: Holographic aspects of two- and four-dimensional field theories
Speaker: Silke Klemm (University of Milan)
Date: Tuesday 18 February 2020
Title: Unusual horizon geometries of black holes in gauged supergravity
Speaker: Masanori Hanada (University of Southampton)
Date: Tuesday 3 December 2019
Title: How colours make a black hole
Speaker: Ana Retore (Trinity College Dublin)
Date: Tuesday 19 November 2019
Title: New su(2) × su(2) integrable models
Speaker: Mahdi Godazgar (Queen Mary, University of London)
Date: Tuesday 22 October 2019
Title: Asymptotic charges in gravity
Speaker: Daniel Grumiller (Vienna University of Technology)
Date: Tuesday 15 October 2019
Title: Gravity and holography in lower dimensions
Speaker: Juan Miguel Nieto Garcia (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Date: Tuesday 11 June 2019
Title: Recent developments in the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence with mixed flux
Speaker: Giacomo Pope (University of Liverpool)
Date: Tuesday 4 June 2019
Title: From static to cosmological solutions of N=2 supergravity
Speaker: Jaco van Zyl (University of the Witwatersrand)
Date: Tuesday 21 May 2019
Title: On integrable subsectors of AdS/CFT and LLM geometries
Speaker: Ingo Runkel (University of Hamburg)
Date: Tuesday 14 May 2019
Title: Integrability in 2d CFT and line defects
Speaker: Istvan Szecsenyi (City, University of London)
Date: Tuesday 7 May 2019
Title: Entanglement content of quantum particle excitations
Speaker: Alessandro Torrielli (University of Surrey)
Date: Tuesday 26 March 2019
Title: Massless scattering in lower dimensional AdS/CFT
Speaker: Tommaso Macrelli (University of Surrey)
Date: Tuesday 19 March 2019
Title: Finite symmetry groups of two-dimensional toroidal conformal field theories
Speaker: Tomasz Lukowski (University of Hertfordshire)
Date: Tuesday 12 March 2019
Title: Amplituhedron meets Jeffrey—Kirwan residue
Speaker: Alec Barns-Graham (University of Cambridge)
Date: Tuesday 19 February 2019
Title: A superconformal index for hyper-Kähler cones
Speaker: Andrea Cavaglia (King's College London)
Date: Tuesday 5 February 2019
Title: Towards 3-point functions in N=4 super Yang—Mills theory with the quantum spectral curve
Speaker: Rouven Frassek (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn)
Date: Thursday 31 January 2019
Title: Q-operators for rational spin chains
Speaker: Martin Wolf (University of Surrey)
Date: Tuesday 4 December 2018
Title: L∞-algebras, the BV formalism, and classical fields
Speaker: Valentina Forini (City University London)
Date: Tuesday 27 November 2018
Title: Superstring worldsheet beyond perturbation theory
Speaker: Tudor Dimofte (University of California, Davis)
Date: Tuesday 20 November 2018
Title: Higher algebraic structures in supersymmetric QFT
Speaker: Roberto Sisca (University of Surrey)
Date: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Title: The universal geometry of heterotic vacua (part 2)
Speaker: Charles Strickland-Constable (University of Hertfordshire)
Date: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Title: Finite heterotic deformations and holomorphic Courant algebroids
Speaker: Anthony Ashmore (University of Oxford)
Date: Tuesday 30 October 2018
Title: Moduli and obstructions of N=1 heterotic backgrounds.
Speaker: Tristan McLoughlin (Trinity College Dublin)
Date: Tuesday 23 October 2018
Title: A twistor approach to conformal higher spin theory
Speaker: Jock McOrist (University of Surrey)
Date: Tuesday 9 October 2018
Title: The universal geometry of heterotic vacua (part 1)
Speaker: Sebastian Lautz (King's College London)
Date: Tuesday 2 October 2018
Title: All AdS4 and AdS3 supergravity backgrounds with N > 16 supersymmetries: uniqueness and (non-)existence