Friday High Energy Theory

Date:
May
08
2026

IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

AdS3 Quantum Gravity via Finite-N Expansions
Wei Li
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall (IAS) & Zoom

Abstract: I will discuss the bulk mechanism of the stringy exclusion principle in the AdS3/CFT2 case. Consider the duality between  string theory on AdS3 × S3 × M4 and Sym^N(M4). At finite N, both the chiral-chiral spectrum and the number of the...

May
15
2026

Princeton University High Energy Theory Seminar

Regge's Inferno
Zohar Komargodski
11:00am|Jadwin Hall, PCTS Room 407

Abstract: We study large-spin operators in conformal field theories (CFTs) in spacetime dimensions d>2 by placing the theory on appropriate pp-wave backgrounds. From thermodynamics on these spacetimes, we obtain strong constraints on the asymptotic...