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Past events

  • 15th Kavli Asian Winter School    Beijing, Jan 18-27, 2021.
  • The 14th Kavli Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology    Jan 13-22, 2020 @ Tohoku University, Japan. Registration deadline: October 01, 2019.
  • ITP Workshop on Fields and Strings    Jan 9-10, 2020 @ ITP-CAS
  • Unfashionable Pursuits: Informal Workshop on SCFT and Supergravity-I    Nov 11-15, 2019 @ ITP-CAS
  • Workshop on Holography and Quantum Matter    Aug 24-26, 2019 @ ITP-CAS
  • ICTP-AP International Conference on Frontiers of Fundamental Physics    May 13-14, 2019 @ ITP-CAS
  • Annual meeting at ITP with a session on Scattering Amplitudes    April 29-30, 2019 @ ITP-CAS
  • AdS/CFT对应中的可积性小型研讨会    Dec 26 (Wed), 2018 @ CHEP-PKU
  • Mini-workshop on integrable deformations of CFTs    Nov 28 (Wed), 2018 @ ITP-CAS
  • Sep 14-16: Tsinghua Summer Workshop on Geometry and Physics 2018

  • Past seminars

    Jan 11-17, 2021

    Zichang Huang
    Fudan university
    2:00 pm
    Jan 13 (Wed)
    https://zoom.com.cn/j/95080629513 Lefschetz Thimble Path Integral and its Application to Spin-Foam Model

    Jan 04-10, 2021

    Florian Loebbert
    Humboldt University of Berlin
    3:00 pm
    Jan 06 (Wed)
    https://zoom.us/j/97842384446 Integrability for Feynman Integrals

    Dec 21-27, 2020

    Jie-qiang Wu
    MIT
    2:00 pm
    Dec 23 (Wed)
    ITP South Building 6620 Peierls bracket and gravitational dressing in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity
    Matthias Wilhelm
    NBI
    4:00 pm
    Dec 16 (Wed)
    Zoom Link An Operator Product Expansion for Form Factors
    James Sully
    UBC
    10 AM
    Dec. 7 (Monday)
    BIMSA(zoom) Gravity without Ensembles?
    Si Li
    YMSC, Tsinghua
    2:00 pm
    Dec 09 (Wed)
    ITP South Building 6620 Homological methods in quantum field theory
    Cumrun Vafa
    Harvard
    10 AM
    Dec. 2 (Wednesday)
    BIMSA(zoom) The String Landscape and the Swampland

    Cheng Peng
    KITS-UCAS
    2:00 pm
    Dec 02 (Wed)
    ITP South Building 6620 Ensemble averages, Poisson processes and Microstates
    Keshav Dasgupta
    Mc Gill
    10 AM
    Nov. 30 (Monday)
    BIMSA(zoom) Constructing de Sitter space in string theory

    Nov 16-22, 2020

    Junbao Wu
    TJU
    2:00 pm
    Nov 17 (Tue)
    Tencent meeting ID:
    201 931 732
    Loop operators in three-dimensional N=2 fishnet theories
    David Kosower
    Saclay, France
    4:00 pm
    Nov 18 (Wed)
    Zoom Link Lecture 3: Classical Physics from Quantum Amplitudes
    David Kosower
    Saclay, France
    4:00 pm
    Nov 20 (Fri)
    Zoom Link Lecture 4: Classical Physics from Quantum Amplitudes

    Nov 09-15, 2020

    Yutin Huang
    NTU
    2:00 pm
    Nov 11 (Wed)
    Zoom Link
    (also @ ITP 6620)
    Geometry of modular bootstrap
    David Kosower
    Saclay, France
    4:00 pm
    Nov 11 (Wed)
    Zoom Link
    (also @ ITP 6620)
    Lecture 1: Classical Physics from Quantum Amplitudes
    David Kosower
    Saclay, France
    4:00 pm
    Nov 13 (Fri)
    Zoom Link
    (also @ ITP 6620)
    Lecture 2: Classical Physics from Quantum Amplitudes

    Nov 02-08, 2020

    Congkao Wen
    Queen Mary Uni. of London
    3:00 pm
    Nov 04 (Wed)
    Zoom Link ITP South Building 6620 String scattering on AdS_5 x S^5: Recursion relations and Modular invariance

    Oct 26-30, 2020

    Huajia Wang
    KITS
    2:00 pm
    Oct 27 (Tue)
    ITP South Building 6620 Saddle-points at Holographic Entanglement Transitions: Enhanced Corrections

    Oct 19-25, 2020

    Chen-Te Ma
    SCNU & UCT
    9:30 am
    Oct 21 (Wed)
    ITP South Building 6420 Accurate Study from Adaptive Perturbation Method
    Bin Chen
    PKU
    2:00 pm
    Oct 21 (Wed)
    ITP South Building 6620 On Galilean conformal bootstrap

    Oct 12-18, 2020

    Bartek Czech
    IAS Tsinghua
    2:00 pm
    Oct 14 (Wed), 15 (Thur)
    ITP South Building 6620
    (Online streaming)
    Kinematic Space in AdS3/CFT2: How Bulk Lengths and Boosts are Entanglement Berry Phases

    Jan 13-19, 2020

    Yixiong Yin 1:00 pm
    Mon, Jan 13
    ITP South Building 6420 JC: The Complete One-loop Form Factors in Yang-Mills from Unitarity and Spinor Formalism in Six Dimensions
    Yang Zhang
    USTC
    10:00 am
    Tue, Jan 14
    ITP South Building 6420 Frontiers in multi-loop dimensionally regularized amplitudes with high multiplicity

    Jan 06-12, 2020

    Multi-speakers 10:00 - 17:00
    Jan 09-10, 2020
    ITP South Building 6620 ITP Workshop on Fields and Strings

    Dec 30-Jan 5, 2019-2020

    Lei Wang
    ITP
    1:00 pm
    Mon, Dec 30
    ITP South Building 6420 Review on super form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills
    Yingfei Gu
    Harvard Univ.
    1:30 pm
    Tue, Dec 31
    ITP South Building 6420 On the relation between the magnitude and exponent of OTOCs
    Pengfei Zhang
    Caltech
    3:30 pm
    Tue, Dec 31
    ITP South Building 6420 Branching time and Many-body chaos
    Yutin Huang
    NTU
    2:00 pm
    Thu, Jan 02
    ITP South Building 6620 Gravitational duality transformation from double copy
    Hantian Zhang
    Zurich Univ.
    2:00 pm
    Fri, Jan 03
    ITP South Building 6620 Rational terms at two loops

    Dec 23-29, 2019

    Ke Ren
    ITP
    1:00 pm
    Mon, Dec 23
    ITP South Building 6420 Revisit on Cohomology of Grassmannian in conformal field theory

    Dec 16-22, 2019

    Chi Zhang
    ITP
    1:00 pm
    Mon, Dec 16
    ITP South Building 6420 Two loop NMHV octagons from Qbar equations

    Dec 09-15, 2019

    Zhenjie Li
    ITP
    1:00 pm
    Mon, Dec 09
    ITP South Building 6420 Blowing up stringy integrals
    Multi-Speakers 9:00 - 16:00
    Dec 12-13, 2019
    Lecture hall, 3rd floor
    JinChunYuan West building
    Tsinghua Seminar on Strings and Fields 2019

    Dec 02-08, 2019

    Jinxuan Zhang
    ITP
    1:00 pm
    Mon, Dec 02
    ITP South Building 6420 Post-Newtonian(PN) equation of motion of PN sources

    Nov 25-29, 2019

    Yang Zhou
    Fudan University
    2:00 pm
    Wed, Nov 27
    ITP South Building 6420 A New Anomaly in 2D Conformal Field Theory

    Nov 04-10, 2019

    Hui Luo
    China Academy of Engineering Physics
    2:00 pm
    Mon, Nov 04
    ITP South Building 6620 Analytic Form of the Three-loop Four-gluon Scattering Amplitudes in Yang-Mills Theory
    Chi-Ming Chang
    YMSC, Tsinghua
    2:00 pm
    Wed, Nov 06
    ITP South Building 6420 Supersymmetric Landau-Ginzburg Tensor Models

    Oct 21-27, 2019

    Rui Yu
    ITP-CAS
    1:00 pm
    Mon, Oct 21
    ITP South Building 6420 Solving the 1+1 D meson states in the ‘t Hooft model with the Hamiltonian operator approach

    Sep 02-08, 2019

    Chen-Te Ma
    South China Normal University
    2:30 pm
    Tue, Sep 03
    ITP South B. 6420 Stringy Effects at Low-Energy Limit

    Aug 26-Sep 01, 2019

    Jan Zaanen
    Leiden University
    10:30 am
    Mon, Aug 26
    ITP South B. 6620 The AdS/CFT correspondence and the quantum supremacy of matter

    Aug 19-25, 2019

    Albrecht Klemm
    Bonn University
    1:30 pm
    Mon, Aug 19
    Lecture Hall, JinChunYuan West Building Topological String on Elliptic Calabi-Yau 3-Folds with N-sections and Modular Forms
    Albrecht Klemm
    Bonn University
    4:00 pm
    Tue, Aug 20
    Lecture Hall, JinChunYuan West Building Periods and Quasiperiods of Modular Forms and D-brane Masses

    Aug 05-11, 2019

    Fei Teng
    Uppsala University
    2:00 pm
    Tue, Aug 06
    ITP South B. 6620 String correlators: recursive expansion, integration-by-parts and scattering equations

    July 29-Aug 04, 2019

    Yu-tin Huang
    NTU
    2:00 pm
    Tue, July 30
    ITP South B. 6620 Rotating black holes as spinning particles

    June 17-23, 2019

    Mauricio Romo
    Tsinghua Yau center
    2:30 pm
    Wed, Jun 19
    ITP South B. (New B.) 6620 SL(N) Chern-Simons, cluster algebras and defects

    June 10-16, 2019

    June 03-09, 2019

    Luis Apolo
    YMSC
    12:00 pm
    Mon, June 3
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: Holographic Entanglement Entropy
    Yi Liao
    Nankai Univ.
    3:00 pm
    Wed, Jun 05
    ITP South B. (New B.) 6420 Effective field theory approach to lepton number violation: dimension seven operators
    Sung-Soo Kim
    UESTC
    1:30 PM
    Thu, June 6
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    New developments in 5d SCFTs and 5-brane webs

    May 27-June 02, 2019

    Zi-Zhi Wang
    IASTU
    12:00 pm
    Mon, May 27
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: On Renormalization Group Flows in Four Dimensions
    C. S. Lam
    McGill/UBC
    2:30 pm
    Wed, May 29
    ITP South B. (New B.) 6420 Yang-Mills Theory in the CHY Formalism
    Bartek Czech
    IASTU
    1:30 PM
    Thu, May 30
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    Holographic Entropy Cone with Time Dependence

    May 20-26, 2019

    Boyang Yu
    YMSC, Tsinghua
    12:00 pm
    Mon, May 20
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: Holographic Entanglement Entropy
    Shuang-Yong Zhou
    USTC
    2:30 pm
    Wed, May 22
    ITP South B. (New B.) 6420 Positivity bounds in effective field theories
    Vijay Balasubramanian
    University of Pennsylvania
    11:00 AM
    Thu, May 23
    Conference Hall 322
    Science Building, Tsinghua
    Quantum entanglement as a probe of hidden physics
    Dandan Xu
    IASTU
    1:20 PM
    Thu, May 23
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    Legend of Sealed Book

    May 13-19, 2019

    Yuan Zhong
    YMSC, Tsinghua
    12:00 pm
    Mon, May 13
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: Holographic Entanglement Entropy
    Dongming Gang
    KIAS
    10:30 AM
    Thu, May 16
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Magnetically charged Ads4 (Ads5) black hole from class R (class S) theories
    Ben Heidenreich
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
    1:30 PM
    Thu, May 16
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    The Weak Gravity Conjecture and Repulsive Forces

    May 6-12, 2019

    Yuan Zhong
    YMSC, Tsinghua
    12:00 pm
    Mon, May 6
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: Holographic Entanglement Entropy
    Babak Haghighat
    YMSC, Tsinghua
    1:30 PM
    Thu, May 9
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    M5 branes and theta functions

    Apr 29 - May 5, 2019

    Bowen Chen
    IASTU
    12:00 pm
    Mon, Apr 29
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: Holographic Entanglement Entropy

    Apr 22-28, 2019

    Yuan Zhong
    YMSC
    12:00 pm
    Mon, Apr 22
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: Holographic Entanglement Entropy
    Chi Zhang
    ITP
    1:00 pm
    Mon, Apr 22
    ITP North B. (Old B.) 322 Journal club: U equations and Y system
    Zhao Li
    IHEP
    2:00 pm
    Wed, Apr 24
    ITP South B. (New B.) 6420 Improving measurement on Higgs-gluon effective coupling
    Marcus Sperling
    YMSC
    1:30 PM
    Thu, Apr 25
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    From discrete quotients of Coulomb branches to magnetic quivers

    Apr 15-21, 2019

    Zi-Zhi Wang
    IASTU
    12:00 pm
    Mon, Apr 15
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: Holographic Entanglement Entropy
    Yuming Wang
    Nankai University
    2:30 pm
    Wed, Apr 17
    ITP South B. (New B.) 6420 QCD Aspects of Radiative Leptonic B Decays
    Alejandra Castro
    University of Amsterdam
    1:30 PM
    Thu, Apr 18
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    New aspects of nAdS2/nCFT1 correspondence

    Apr 08-14, 2019

    Haoxin Wang
    Tsinghua University
    12:00 pm
    Mon, Apr 8
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: Holographic Entanglement Entropy
    Joonho Kim
    KIAS
    10:30 AM
    Thu, Apr 11
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    Cardy Formula of 4d N=1 SCFT
    Feng Feng
    China University of Mining and Technology
    2:00 pm
    Thu, Apr 11
    ITP South B. (New B.) 6420 Numerical NNLO Computations in Heavy Quarkonium Process

    Apr 01-07, 2019

    Wenxin Lai
    Peking University
    12:00 pm
    Mon, Apr 1
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: Holographic Entanglement Entropy
    Song He
    ITP
    1:00 pm
    Mon, Apr 01
    ITP Old B. 322 Journal club: String-like integrals for canonical forms
    Qiang Wen
    Southeast University
    2:30 pm
    Wed, Apr 03
    ITP New B. 6420 Aspects on Entanglement Contour II: the holographic picture
    Xuening Bai
    IASTU
    1:30 pm
    Thu, Apr 4
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    Cosmic-ray Streaming Instability: Introduction and ab initio Simulations

    Mar 25-31, 2019

    Shuwei Liu (Tsinghua) &
    Wenxin Lai (Peking)
    12:00 pm
    Mon, Mar 25
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: Introduction to quantum information theory and selected topics
    Yu-Sen An
    ITP
    1:00 pm
    Mon, Mar 25
    ITP Old B. 322 Journal club: Complexity in quantum field theory and its axiomatic definition
    Pujian Mao
    Tianjin University
    3:30 pm
    Wed, Mar 26
    ITP New B. 6420 More on gravitational memory
    Dan Xie
    Tsinghua University
    2:30 pm
    Wed, Mar 27
    ITP New B. 6420 Soft supersymmetry breaking of four dimensional superconformal field theory
    Bartek Czech
    IASTU
    3:30 pm
    Wed, Mar 27
    Conference Hall 322
    Science Building, Tsinghua
    Modular Berry Connection and How Holographic Spacetimes Acquire Curvature

    Mar 18-24, 2019

    Shuwei Liu
    Tsinghua University
    12:00 pm
    Mon, Mar 18
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: Introduction to quantum information theory and selected topics
    Qiang Wen
    Southeast University
    2:30 pm
    Wed, Mar 20
    ITP New B. 6420 Aspects on Entanglement Contour I: in Quantum Information Theories
    Junbao Wu
    Tianjin University
    1:30 pm
    Thu, Mar 21
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    Holographic Wilson Loops in AdS4/CFT3 Correspondence Revisited
    Michal Heller
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Potsdam (AEI)
    3:30 pm
    Thu, Mar 21
    Conference Hall 322
    Science Building, Tsinghua
    Circuit complexity for path integral optimization

    Mar 11-17, 2019

    Hongji Gao
    Tsinghua University
    12:00 pm
    Mon, Mar 11
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: introduction to information theory
    Song He
    ITP
    1:30 pm
    Thu, Mar 14
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    ABCD of causal diamonds, cluster associahedra and scattering amplitudes (part 2)
    Jing Shu
    ITP
    14:00 pm
    Fri, Mar 15
    ITP New B. 6420 Journal club: Standard Model Effective Field Theory from On-shell Amplitudes

    Mar 04-10, 2019

    Hongji Gao
    Tsinghua University
    12:00 pm
    Mon, Mar 4
    Jinchunyuan West
    Conference Room 1, Tsinghua
    Journal club: introduction to information theory
    Siyi Zhou
    HKUST
    2:00 pm
    Wed, Mar 06
    ITP Old B. 322 Amplitudes Meet Cosmology
    Yong-Ge Ma
    BNU
    3:30 pm
    Wed, Mar 06
    ITP New B. 6620 A Review on Loop Quantum Gravity
    Song He
    ITP
    1:30 pm
    Thu, Mar 7
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    ABCD of causal diamonds, cluster associahedra and scattering amplitudes

    Feb 25 - Mar 03, 2019

    Robert de Mello Koch
    South China Normal Uni. & Uni. of the Witwatersrand
    10:30 am
    Wed, Feb 27
    ITP New B. 6420 Bi-local Holography
    Dan Xie
    Tsinghua University
    1:30 pm
    Thu, Feb 28
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    W algebra and four dimensional N=2 Argyres-Douglas theory
    Bartek Czech
    Tsinghua
    2:00 pm
    Fri, Mar 01
    ITP New B. 6420 How to glue a spacetime from entanglement wedges

    Jan 18 - 24, 2019

    Yunxiang Liao
    University of Maryland
    03:30 pm
    Tue, Jan 19
    ITP New B. 6420 Nonlinear sigma model approach to many-body quantum chaos

    Jan 07 - 13, 2019

    Peng Zhao
    ITP
    01:00 pm
    Mon, Jan 07
    ITP Old B. 322 Journal club: New Exact Results In Supersymmetric Gauge Theory

    Jan 01 - 06, 2019

    Jin Chen
    ITP
    01:00 pm
    Wed, Jan 02
    ITP Old B. 322 Journal club: 4d N=1 from 6d (1,0) SCFT compactified on a torus with flux
    Zhihao Duan
    ENS
    1:30 pm
    Thu, Jan 3
    Jinchunyuan West
    3rd floor, Tsinghua
    Computing the elliptic genus of higher rank E strings from genus 0 GW invariants
    Rui Yu
    IHEP
    10:00 am
    Thu, Jan 03
    ITP Old B. 322 Hadron structure in 1+1D QCD
    Xinyu Zhang
    Rutgers University
    02:30 pm
    Fri, Jan 04
    ITP New B. 6420 Application of qq-characters

    Past seminars in 2018