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Thursday, Apr 03, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM What is Particle Theory?

    • Isabel Garcia Garcia (Washington) Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons
    • Dorota Grabowska (UW) What is Quantum Computing (and how I learned to love the NISQ-era)
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory: High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter, and Quantum Gravity

    • Sal Pace (MIT) SPT-LSM theorems from projective non-invertible symmetry
    • Daniel Brennan (UCSD) Callan Rubakov

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Monday, Mar 31, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:30AM Special Seminar

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory: High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter, and Quantum Gravity

    • Everyone ( Everywhere) Meet and Greet
  • Zoom 01:00PM NSBP Insight Seminar

    Register: https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RngrydzORl2orkZyMdQG8g#
    • Morgan Cole (Yale) Advancing Radio Telescope Calibration with Drones
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM What is Particle Theory?

    • Nathaniel Craig (UCSB), Aida El-Khadra (UIUC), John March-Russell (Oxford), Stefania Gori (UCSC) Welcome, Introductions, and Two Open Questions

2025

Tuesday, Apr 01, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM What is Particle Theory?

    • Ken Van Tilburg (NYU) What is Low-Energy Particle Theory?
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory: High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter, and Quantum Gravity

    • Lukasz Fidkowski (Washington), Ruben Verresen (Chicago) Discussion Session: Anomalies on the lattice, SPTs, and QCAs
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Gavin Salam (Univ. of Oxford) Colliders, Higgs and the strong interaction

2025

Wednesday, Apr 02, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory: High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter, and Quantum Gravity

    • Frank Verstraete (Cambridge) Entanglement, Tensor Networks and Generalized Symmetries
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM What is Particle Theory?

    • Lorenzo Tancredi (TUM) What is a Feynman Integral? A tour from quantum field theory to complex geometry
    • Soubhik Kumar (NYU) Dark Radiation from the Axiverse

2025

Thursday, Apr 03, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM What is Particle Theory?

    • Isabel Garcia Garcia (Washington) Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons
    • Dorota Grabowska (UW) What is Quantum Computing (and how I learned to love the NISQ-era)
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory: High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter, and Quantum Gravity

    • Sal Pace (MIT) SPT-LSM theorems from projective non-invertible symmetry
    • Daniel Brennan (UCSD) Callan Rubakov

2025

Friday, Apr 04, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM What is Particle Theory?

    • Sungwoo Hong (KAIST) Axion domain walls, small instantons, and non-invertible symmetry breaking
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM What is Particle Theory?

    • Anna Hasenfratz (CU Boulder) Symmetric Mass Generation and the conformal window

2025

Saturday, Apr 05, 2025

No talks scheduled.

2025

Sunday, Apr 06, 2025

No talks scheduled.

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Monday, Apr 07, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:55AM Generalized Symmetries: High-Energy, Condensed Matter and Mathematics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Michele Del Zotto (Uppsala Univ.) -
    • Mark Bowick (KITP) Welcome
    • Clay Córdova (U. Chicago) Higgsing Transitions and Non-Invertible Symmetries in Chern-Simons Matter Theories
    • Apoorv Tiwari (SDU) Gapped and Gapless Phases in (2+1)d with Non-Invertible Symmetries
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM What is Particle Theory?

    • Aida El-Khadra (UIUC), Nathaniel Craig (UCSB), Michael Peskin (SLAC), Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab / U. Chicago) Welcome, Closeout, and Two Open Questions

2025

Tuesday, Apr 08, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Generalized Symmetries: High-Energy, Condensed Matter and Mathematics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Sakura Schafer Nameki (Oxford) -
    • Xie Chen (Caltech) Are all phase transitions symmetry breaking transitions?
    • Kevin Walker () Completed categories and dualities
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM What is Particle Theory?

    • Matthew McCullough (CERN) What are the boundaries of Particle Theory?

2025

Wednesday, Apr 09, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Generalized Symmetries: High-Energy, Condensed Matter and Mathematics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Andrea Antinucci (Oxford) -
    • Yifan Wang (NYU) Pinning Defect, Fusion and Factorization
    • Nathanan Tantivasadakarn (Caltech) Non-invertible self-duality symmetries on a tensor product Hilbert space
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM What is Particle Theory?

    • Giovanni Villadoro (ICTP) Axions, Strings and Stars
    • Sebastian Ellis (U. Geneva) What is (the benefit of) a Quantum Sensor?

2025

Thursday, Apr 10, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Generalized Symmetries: High-Energy, Condensed Matter and Mathematics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Christian Copetti (Oxford) -
    • Zhenghan Wang (UCSB) Topological symmetries of anyonic chains and quantum computing with CFTs
    • Margarita Davydova (Caltech) Quantum computation from spacetime defect networks
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM What is Particle Theory?

    • Dimitrios Kosmopoulos (U. Geneva) Gravitational Waves is Particle Theory: Amplitudes for Gravitational Self-Force

2025

Friday, Apr 11, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM What is Particle Theory?

    • Seth Koren (Notre Dame) Naturalness and Generalized Symmetries

2025

Saturday, Apr 12, 2025

No talks scheduled.

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Sunday, Apr 13, 2025

No talks scheduled.