Events During the 2020 Fall Semester
August 2020
September 2020
- Friday, September 18th
- Jorrit Kruthoff, Stanford University
- Classical aspects of black hole interiors
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at: , hosted by Lars Aalsma
- Friday, September 25th
- Horng Sheng Chia, Institute for Advanced Study
- Probing Particle Physics with Gravitational Waves
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at: , hosted by Lars Aalsma
October 2020
- Friday, October 2nd
- Juan S. Cruz, Technical University Munich
- Gradient effects on false vacuum decay in gauge theory
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at: , hosted by Lars Aalsma
- Friday, October 9th
- Ben Stefanek, Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Gravitational wave probes of axion-like particles
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at: , hosted by Lars Aalsma
- Friday, October 16th
- Arjun Kar, University of British Columbia
- Islands, cosmology, and baby universes
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at: , hosted by Lars Aalsma
- Friday, October 23rd
- Jeff Dror, UC Berkeley
- New roads to discovery of light states
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at: , hosted by Lars Aalsma
- Friday, October 30th
- Marija Tomašević, Universitat de Barcelona
- Quantum Penrose Inequality
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at: , hosted by Lars Aalsma
November 2020
- Friday, November 6th
- Kevin Kelly, Fermilab
- Heavy Neutrinos and Where to Find Them
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at: , hosted by Lars Aalsma
- Friday, November 13th
- Oliver Janssen, ICTP, Trieste
- Two topics in quantum gravity
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at: , hosted by Lars Aalsma
December 2020
- Friday, December 4th
- Edgar Shaghoulian, University of Pennsylvania
- Replica wormholes, the black hole information paradox, and cosmology
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at: , hosted by Lars Aalsma
- Friday, December 11th
- Sungwoo Hong, Cornell University
- Electric-Magnetic S-matrix
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at: , hosted by Lars Aalsma
- Friday, December 18th
- Henry Maxfield, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Observations of Hawking radiation: the Page curve and baby universes
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at: