Most takes on quantum field theory start from microscopics, fundamental degrees of freedom, a Lagrangian. Conformal field theory is an exception—it focuses on the algebra of local operators and avoids any reference to the Lagrangian. This leads to a method for doing practical CFT calculations—the conformal bootstrap.
Events Archive
Donald R. Hamilton Colloquium
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Slava Rychkov, CERN, and ENS-Paris, “Non-Hamiltonian approach to conformal quantum field theory – 40 years later”
Thu, Nov 6, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Michael Gordin, Dept. of History, Princeton, “Einstein in Bohemia: Not-So-General Relativity, 1911-1912”
Thu, Oct 16, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series- Leslie Rosenberg, University of Washington, "Searching for Dark-Matter Axions"
Thu, Oct 9, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series- David Huse, Princeton University, "Quantum thermalization, many-body Anderson localization, and the entanglement frontier"
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Thomas Gregor, Princeton, "Precision and reproducibility in development"
Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Matthew P.A. Fisher, UC-Santa Barbara, "Quantum Tapestries"
Thu, May 1, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Yayu Wang, Tsinghua University, "Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Topological Insulators"
Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University, "Quantum Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Systems"
Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich: "Validating Quantum Devices"
Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Michael Peskin, Stanford U.: "Beyond the Higgs Boson: Further questions and expectations for the Large Hadron Collider"
Thu, Mar 6, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Stanislas Leibler, The Rockefeller University, and IAS: "Ethology and Ecology of Simple Microbial Systems"
Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Jun Ye, University of Colorado: "Ultracold Molecules - New Frontiers in Quantum and Chemical Physics"
Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Gabriel Orebi Gann, UC-Berkeley: "Here Be Dragons: Mysteries of the Neutrino" - Updated
Fri, Feb 14, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Philip W. Anderson, Princeton University: "The Discovery of the Anderson-Higgs Mechanism"
Thu, Feb 6, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Emilia Morosan, Rice University: "Exotic superconductivity at the itinerant-to-local moment crossover"
Thu, Dec 5, 2013, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Joseph Polchinski, KITP, University of California-Santa Barbara: "The Black Hole Information Paradox: Alive and Kicking"
Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Cristiano Galbiati, Princeton University: "What about dark matter?"
Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Sarah Eno, University of Maryland: "The LHC: Beyond the Standard Model"
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Sarah Eno, University of Maryland: "The LHC: Beyond the Standard Model"
Thu, Nov 7, 2013, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research - Mumbai, India: "The Fluid Gravity Correspondence"
Thu, Oct 24, 2013, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Hamilton Colloquium Series - Risa Wechsler, Kavli Institute, Stanford University: "Dark Matter Insights from Cosmological Structure Formation"
Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm