DATE: Thursday, May 18,
2017
University of California, San Diego
Mayer Hall, Room 4322
REGISTRATION
To register, please send an e-mail here with your name and affiliation. Registration is free, but participants are responsible for making their own travel arrangements. Speakers are encouraged to leave 5 minutes at the end of their talk for questions. This is an informal meeting, so blackboard talks are ok/encouraged!
SoCal Strings Seminar
The SoCal Strings Seminar will be held on Friday, May 18, 2017 at the same location. For those who will be attending both conference days and will be needing accommodations, see directions for some suggestions. For more information regarding the SoCal Strings Seminar, see the seminar webpage.
PROGRAM
(Subject to change.)
Time |
Speaker | Talk Title |
| < 9:20 | Come get your caffeine | |
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Opening Remarks | |
| 9:30 - 10:10 | 10-minute talks, Round 1 | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Albin James (USC) | The Tadpole Graph in Perturbative Open String Field Theory |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:50 | Enrico Herrmann (Caltech) | tbd |
| 11:50 - 12:40 | River Snively (UCLA) | Black Holes from Modular Invariance |
| 12:40 - 2:10 | Lunch | For those interested, we'll walk over to the Price Center together to get lunch. |
| 2:10 - 2:50 | 10-minute talks, Round 2 | |
| 2:50 - 3:40 | Alexandra Miller (UCSB) | Superposition Induced Topology Changes in Quantum Gravity |
| 3:40 - 4:00 | Break | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Benjamin Lillard (UCI) | Product group s-confinement in SUSY gauge theories |
| 4:30 - 5:20 | Sridip Pal (UCSD) | (N)On Thermality of CFT Eigenstates |
We'll go out to dinner after the last talk if there is interest.
Parking and Accommodations
We have a room block at a reduced rate at the Del Mar Inn. If you would like to take advantage of this rate, you will need to call the hotel directly to book by Friday, April 28. See directions for details.
If you will need a parking permit for May 18 and/or May 19, please send an email here. See directions for parking details.
Previous SoCal Grad Strings and Fields Conferences: