High-Energy Theory Group

High-Energy Theory Seminar 2025

Time and Place: Tuesday at 4:00 PM, E6-2 #1323 (special seminar occasionally)

May 27th Dhong Yeon Cheong (Yonsei U.): TBA

May 20th Kaiwen Sun (USTC): TBA

May 13th Yiming Zhong (Hong Kong, City U.): "Anatomy of Parity-violating Trispectra in Galaxy Surveys"

May 13th Christina Gao (SUSTech): "Reconciling Neutrino Mass Bounds with Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Radiation"

Apr. 22nd Seung J. Lee (KIAS): "Cosmological quasiparticles and the cosmological collider"

Apr. 15th Hee-Cheol Kim (Postech): "Finite Landscape of 6d (1,0) Supergravity"

Mar. 18th Chang Sub Shin (CNU): "Probing Heavy Dark Matter: Its Origin and Detection"

Mar. 11th Rak-Kyeong Seong (UNIST): "The AI Revolution for Quantum Fields and Strings: A Case Study"

Mar. 4th Akhil Sivakumar (APCTP): "Real-time Correlations and Complexified Horizons"

Feb. 27th Jaehyeok Choi (SNU): "Relativistically rotating vortices to describe large operators"

Feb. 25th Dongwook Ghim (RIKEN-iTHEMS): "Birational Transforms, mass deformations and brane brick models"

Feb. 5th Jorinde van de Vis (CERN): "The bubble wall velocity in cosmological phase transitions"

Feb. 4th Taewook Youn (Cornell University and KIAS): "Exploring QCD-like Dynamics with AMSB"

High-Energy Theory Seminar 2024

Time and Place: Wednesday at 4:30 PM, E6-2 #1323

Dec. 24th George Linardopolous (APCTP): "New boundary central charges from holographic defects"

Dec. 13th Ho Tat Lam (MIT): "Dynamical Constraints from Projective Non-invertible Symmetries"

Dec. 10th Temple He (Caltech): "From ’t Hooft to BMS: Connecting Shockwaves and Memories"

Nov. 27th Haipeng An (Tsinghua U, Peking U): "Consequences of phase transitions occurred during inflation"

Nov. 21st Daniel Jafferis (Havard): "3d Gravity and Tensor Models"

Nov. 20th Matthew Roberts (APCTP): "Supersymmetric magnetic defects"

Nov. 13th Mario Reig Lopez (Oxford): "Testing unification and heterotic strings with axions"

Nov. 8th, 12th Monica Jinwoo Kang (U Penn): "Infinite-dimensional Holography"

Nov. 7th Max Hubner (Uppsala Univ.): "Geometric Unification of Symmetry Theories"

Oct. 30th Craig Lawrie (DESY): "Higgs Branches of Eight-supercharge SCFTs and Symplectic Singularities"

Oct. 16th Sungjoon Kim (KIAS): "Toward building blocks of SUSY dualities: S-confinement of D_p[SU(N)]"

Jul. 10th Matteo Lotito (SNU): "The Weak Gravity conjecture in Perturbative String Theory"

Jul. 3rd Yein Lee (Kyunghee Univ.): "Holographic duals of Higgsed Dpb(BCD)"

May. 29th Hayden Lee (KICP, U Chicago): "Amplitudes Meet Cosmology: From Inflation to the Large-Scale Structure"

May. 16th Ian Moult (Yale): "Conformal Collider Physics"

May. 14th Gongjun Choi (Univ. of Minnesota): "Minimal Production of Prompt Gravitational Waves during Reheating"

May. 8th Minkyoo Kim (CQueST, Sogang Univ.): "Black Holes from Heavy operators in N=4 SYM"

May. 1st Jeong Han Kim (Chungbuk National U): "Across the Mass Spectrum: Utilizing Small-Scale Structures to Probe Dark Matters"

Mar. 27th T. Daniel Brennan (UCSD): "The Callan Rubakov Effect"

Mar. 20th Sunjin Choi (KIAS): "Black hole states at finite N"

Mar. 13th Kanghoon Lee (APCTP): "The Schwarzschild Black Hole from Perturbation Theory to all Orders"

Feb. 19th Shinya Kanemura (Osaka): "Higgs as a probe of new physics"

Jan. 16th Eunwoo Lee (SNU): "Towards quantum black hole microstates"

High-Energy Theory Seminar 2023

Time and Place: Wednesday at 4 PM, E6-2 2502 (Thursday at 11 AM, E6-2 #1322 occasionally)

Dec. 19th Seth Koren (Notre Dame): "Non-invertible symmetries, leptons, quarks, and why multiple generations"

Nov. 29th Hee-Joong Chung (Jeju National Univ.): "3d-3d correspondence and 2d N = (0,2) boundary conditions"

Nov. 29th Thomas Hartman (Cornell): "Averaged null energy and the renormalization group"

Nov. 22nd Kang Sin Choi (Ewha): "Renormalization and the Hierarchy Problem"

Nov. 22nd Soonwon Choi (MIT): "Exact Quantum Algorithms to Recognize Quantum Phases of Matter"

Nov. 8th Thomas Faulkner (UIUC): "The Vacuum Sector of Asymptotically Isometric Codes"

Nov. 1st Dongmin Gang (SNU): "Modular functions and 3D N=4 rank-zero superconformal field theories"

Oct. 11th Seokhoon Yun (IBS): "Axion Magnetic Resonance"

Oct. 4th Dario Rosa (IBS): "Moving towards quantum technologies: the case of quantum batteries"

Sep. 26th Taewook Youn (Cornell-Korea U): "A new step in interacting dark sector cosmologies"

Sep. 13th Sung Mook Lee (KAIST): "Cosmic Birefringence from Dark Photon"

Aug. 29th Manki Kim (MIT): "Towards string loop corrections in Calabi-Yau orientifold compactification"

Aug. 23rd Monica Jinwoo Kang (Caltech): "A spacetime tensor network for AdS3/CFT2"

Jul. 19th Edward Mazenc (UChicago): "Deriving the Simplest Gauge-String Duality"

Jun. 22nd Max Hubner (UPenn): "The Branes Behind Generalized Symmetry Operators"

Jun. 14th Matteo Lotito (SNU): "Vertex algebras and extended operators in 4d N=2 SCFTs"

May. 31st Zhihao Duan (KIAS): "Resurgence and complex Chern-Simons theory"

May. 03rd Sang Hui Im (IBS): "Probing Microscopic Origins of Axions by the Chiral Magnetic Effect"

Apr. 26th Alex Pomarol (IFAE & UAB): "Cornering Large-N QCD with Positivity Bounds"

Apr. 13rd Yichul Choi (Stony Brook Univ.): "Non-invertible Gauss Law and Axions"

Apr. 5th T. Daniel Brennan (UCSD): "Anomalies of Discrete 1-Form Symmetries in QCD-like Theories"

Mar. 29th Ian Lewis (Kansas): "The Higgs Boson and New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider and Beyond"

Mar. 22nd Kunio Kaneta (Tokyo Woman's Univ.): "Boltzmann or Bogoliubov? A case of Gravitational Particle Production"

Mar. 2nd Emily Nardoni (IPMU): "Probing Anomalies of Non-Invertible Symmetries with Symmetry TFTs"

High-Energy Theory Seminar 2022

Time and Place: Thursday at 1 PM, E6-2 #1323

Nov. 10th Choong Sun Kim (Yonesei/Dongshin Univ.): "New Physics Effects on sub-eV active Neutrino for Dirac or Majorana properties"

Nov. 3rd Tadashi Okazaki (KIAS): "Supersymmetric observables via Fermi-gas method"

Oct. 4th Craig Lawrie (DESY): "Distinguishing 6d (1, 0) SCFTs" (Special seminar 4 PM @ E6-2501)

Oct. 6th Monica Jinwoo Kang (Caltech): "Counting states with global symmetry"

Sep. 15th Christopher Couzens (Kyunghee Univ.): "AdS Black Holes: a review"

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High-Energy Theory Seminar 2025

May 27th Dhong Yeon Cheong (Yonsei U.): TBA

May 20th Kaiwen Sun (USTC): TBA

May 13th Yiming Zhong (Hong Kong, City U.): "Anatomy of Parity-violating Trispectra in Galaxy Surveys"

May 13th Christina Gao (SUSTech): "Reconciling Neutrino Mass Bounds with Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Radiation"

Apr. 22nd Seung J. Lee (KIAS): "Cosmological quasiparticles and the cosmological collider"

Apr. 15th Hee-Cheol Kim (Postech): "Finite Landscape of 6d (1,0) Supergravity"

Mar. 18th Chang Sub Shin (CNU): "Probing Heavy Dark Matter: Its Origin and Detection"

Mar. 11th Rak-Kyeong Seong (UNIST): "The AI Revolution for Quantum Fields and Strings: A Case Study"

Mar. 4th Akhil Sivakumar (APCTP): "Real-time Correlations and Complexified Horizons"

Feb. 27th Jaehyeok Choi (SNU): "Relativistically rotating vortices to describe large operators"

Feb. 25th Dongwook Ghim (RIKEN-iTHEMS): "Birational Transforms, mass deformations and brane brick models"

Feb. 5th Jorinde van de Vis (CERN): "The bubble wall velocity in cosmological phase transitions"

Feb. 4th Taewook Youn (Cornell University and KIAS): "Exploring QCD-like Dynamics with AMSB"

High-Energy Theory Seminar 2024

Dec. 24th George Linardopolous (APCTP): "New boundary central charges from holographic defects"

Dec. 13th Ho Tat Lam (MIT): "Dynamical Constraints from Projective Non-invertible Symmetries"

Dec. 10th Temple He (Caltech): "From ’t Hooft to BMS: Connecting Shockwaves and Memories"

Nov. 27th Haipeng An (Tsinghua U, Peking U): "Consequences of phase transitions occurred during inflation"

Nov. 21st Daniel Jafferis (Havard): "3d Gravity and Tensor Models"

Nov. 20th Matthew Roberts (APCTP): "Supersymmetric magnetic defects"

Nov. 13th Mario Reig Lopez (Oxford): "Testing unification and heterotic strings with axions"

Nov. 8th, 12th Monica Jinwoo Kang (U Penn): "Infinite-dimensional Holography"

Nov. 7th Max Hubner (Uppsala Univ.): "Geometric Unification of Symmetry Theories"

Oct. 30th Craig Lawrie (DESY): "Higgs Branches of Eight-supercharge SCFTs and Symplectic Singularities"

Oct. 16th Sungjoon Kim (KIAS): "Toward building blocks of SUSY dualities: S-confinement of D_p[SU(N)]"

Jul. 10th Matteo Lotito (SNU): "The Weak Gravity conjecture in Perturbative String Theory"

Jul. 3rd Yein Lee (Kyunghee Univ.): "Holographic duals of Higgsed Dpb(BCD)"

May. 29th Hayden Lee (KICP, U Chicago): "Amplitudes Meet Cosmology: From Inflation to the Large-Scale Structure"

May. 16th Ian Moult (Yale): "Conformal Collider Physics"

May. 14th Gongjun Choi (Univ. of Minnesota): "Minimal Production of Prompt Gravitational Waves during Reheating"

May. 8th Minkyoo Kim (CQueST, Sogang Univ.): "Black Holes from Heavy operators in N=4 SYM"

May. 1st Jeong Han Kim (Chungbuk National U): "Across the Mass Spectrum: Utilizing Small-Scale Structures to Probe Dark Matters"

Mar. 27th T. Daniel Brennan (UCSD): "The Callan Rubakov Effect"

Mar. 20th Sunjin Choi (KIAS): "Black hole states at finite N"

Mar. 13th Kanghoon Lee (APCTP): "The Schwarzschild Black Hole from Perturbation Theory to all Orders"

Feb. 19th Shinya Kanemura (Osaka): "Higgs as a probe of new physics"

Jan. 16th Eunwoo Lee (SNU): "Towards quantum black hole microstates"

High-Energy Theory Seminar 2023

Dec. 19th Seth Koren (Notre Dame): "Non-invertible symmetries, leptons, quarks, and why multiple generations"

Nov. 29th Hee-Joong Chung (Jeju National Univ.): "3d-3d correspondence and 2d N = (0,2) boundary conditions"

Nov. 29th Thomas Hartman (Cornell): "Averaged null energy and the renormalization group"

Nov. 22nd Kang Sin Choi (Ewha): "Renormalization and the Hierarchy Problem"

Nov. 22nd Soonwon Choi (MIT): "Exact Quantum Algorithms to Recognize Quantum Phases of Matter"

Nov. 8th Thomas Faulkner (UIUC): "The Vacuum Sector of Asymptotically Isometric Codes"

Nov. 1st Dongmin Gang (SNU): "Modular functions and 3D N=4 rank-zero superconformal field theories"

Oct. 11th Seokhoon Yun (IBS): "Axion Magnetic Resonance"

Oct. 4th Dario Rosa (IBS): "Moving towards quantum technologies: the case of quantum batteries"

Sep. 26th Taewook Youn (Cornell-Korea U): "A new step in interacting dark sector cosmologies"

Sep. 13th Sung Mook Lee (KAIST): "Cosmic Birefringence from Dark Photon"

Aug. 29th Manki Kim (MIT): "Towards string loop corrections in Calabi-Yau orientifold compactification"

Aug. 23rd Monica Jinwoo Kang (Caltech): "A spacetime tensor network for AdS3/CFT2"

Jul. 19th Edward Mazenc (UChicago): "Deriving the Simplest Gauge-String Duality"

Jun. 22nd Max Hubner (UPenn): "The Branes Behind Generalized Symmetry Operators"

Jun. 14th Matteo Lotito (SNU): "Vertex algebras and extended operators in 4d N=2 SCFTs"

May. 31st Zhihao Duan (KIAS): "Resurgence and complex Chern-Simons theory"

May. 03rd Sang Hui Im (IBS): "Probing Microscopic Origins of Axions by the Chiral Magnetic Effect"

Apr. 26th Alex Pomarol (IFAE & UAB): "Cornering Large-N QCD with Positivity Bounds"

Apr. 13rd Yichul Choi (Stony Brook Univ.): "Non-invertible Gauss Law and Axions"

Apr. 5th T. Daniel Brennan (UCSD): "Anomalies of Discrete 1-Form Symmetries in QCD-like Theories"

Mar. 29th Ian Lewis (Kansas): "The Higgs Boson and New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider and Beyond"

Mar. 22nd Kunio Kaneta (Tokyo Woman's Univ.): "Boltzmann or Bogoliubov? A case of Gravitational Particle Production"

Mar. 2nd Emily Nardoni (IPMU): "Probing Anomalies of Non-Invertible Symmetries with Symmetry TFTs"

High-Energy Theory Seminar 2022

Nov. 10th Choong Sun Kim (Yonesei/Dongshin Univ.): "New Physics Effects on sub-eV active Neutrino for Dirac or Majorana properties"

Nov. 3rd Tadashi Okazaki (KIAS): "Supersymmetric observables via Fermi-gas method"

Oct. 4th Craig Lawrie (DESY): "Distinguishing 6d (1, 0) SCFTs" (Special seminar 4 PM @ E6-2501)

Oct. 6th Monica Jinwoo Kang (Caltech): "Counting states with global symmetry"

Sep. 15th Christopher Couzens (Kyunghee Univ.): "AdS Black Holes: a review"