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Feb
09
2026

IAS CMP/QFT Group Meeting

Higher Categories in Lattice QFTs
Jing-Yuan Chen
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall (IAS)

Abstract: Category theory has long been a standard language for TQFTs with discrete valued degrees of freedom (and more recently, for discrete generalized symmetries). Is the categorical perspective also useful for more ordinary problems in physics...

Feb
09
2026

IAS Phenomenology Lunch and Meet

Information Discussions on Phenomenology and New Theories beyond the Standard Model
12:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Biology Conference Room (1st Floor, Room 113)

This semester, we will be beginning a *very informal* get-together every Monday of people interested in/working on phenomenology and new theories beyond the standard model.  The idea is to discuss over lunch, perhaps meet up around 12.20, grab lunch...

Feb
09
2026

IAS Joint SNS/SOM High Energy Theory Seminar

A Gapped Boundary of a Chiral Theory in 2+1d
Jeongwan Haah
2:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall (IAS) & Zoom

Abstract: It is believed that topologically ordered gapped local Hamiltonians in 2+1d consisting of commuting terms may not realize a chiral anyon theory. There is even a formula that expresses the chiral central charge of the edge theory as an...

Feb
12
2026

IAS Quantum Aspects of Black Holes Group Meeting

The Phase of de Sitter Higher Spin Gravity
Zimo Sun
11:00am|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library & Zoom

Abstract: I will first review the derivation of Polchinski's phase for massless higher spin fields on the sphere.

Then I will show that, in appropriate regularization schemes, the total phase of Vasiliev's higher spin gravity theory vanishes.

Feb
23
2026

IAS Phenomenology Lunch and Meet

Information Discussions on Phenomenology and New Theories beyond the Standard Model
12:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Biology Conference Room (1st Floor, Room 113)

This semester, we will be beginning a *very informal* get-together every Monday of people interested in/working on phenomenology and new theories beyond the standard model.  The idea is to discuss over lunch, perhaps meet up around 12.20, grab lunch...