coming events and seminar

May 18 (Fri.) 2:20PM-3:50PM, Room 815 @ NTU, New Physics Building
Darren Shih (Berkeley)
Freudenthal gauge theory

ABSTRACT:We present a novel gauge field theory, based on the Freudenthal Triple System (FTS), a ternary algebra with mixed symmetry (not completely symmetric) structure constants. The theory, named Freudenthal Gauge Theory (FGT), is invariant under two symmetries : the symplectic gauge Lie algebra constructed from the FTS triple product and a novel global non-linear symmetry, the so-called Freudenthal duality. We prove a No-Go Theorem, stating the incompatibility of the invariance under Freudenthal duality and the coupling to space-time vector and/or spinor fields.
May 18 (Fri.) 4:00PM-5:30PM, Room 815 @ NTU, New Physics Building
Chi-Ming Chang (Harvard)
W_N minimal model and its gravity dual

Schedule

We will have the supersymmetry journal club starting this semester. It is held on Friday 11:00- at Room 815, NTU new physics building. Everyone is welcome to join and contribute. Here is the reading list .
May 18 (Fri.) 11:00-,
Darren Shih (Berkeley)
Title:Introduction to Freudenthal gauge theory


String seminar is usually held at New Physics Building in NTU, Taipei,
Seminars in the past are in the below of this page (past events).


May 18 (Fri.) 2:20PM-3:50PM, Room 815 @ NTU, New Physics Building
Darren Shih (Berkeley)
Freudenthal gauge theory

ABSTRACT:We present a novel gauge field theory, based on the Freudenthal Triple System (FTS), a ternary algebra with mixed symmetry (not completely symmetric) structure constants. The theory, named Freudenthal Gauge Theory (FGT), is invariant under two symmetries : the symplectic gauge Lie algebra constructed from the FTS triple product and a novel global non-linear symmetry, the so-called Freudenthal duality. We prove a No-Go Theorem, stating the incompatibility of the invariance under Freudenthal duality and the coupling to space-time vector and/or spinor fields.
May 18 (Fri.) 4:00PM-5:30PM, Room 815 @ NTU, New Physics Building
Chi-Ming Chang (Harvard)
W_N minimal model and its gravity dual

May 25 (Fri.) 2:20PM, Room 815 @ NTU, New Physics Building
Hiroyuki Kitamoto (KEK)
Soft gravitons screen couplings in de Sitter space

ABSTRACT:The scale invariance of the quantum fluctuations in de Sitter space leads to the appearance of de Sitter symmetry breaking infra-red logarithms in the graviton propagator. We investigate how virtual gravitons of the super-horizon scale affect the local dynamics of matter fields at sub-horizon scale. We show that the IR logarithms do not spoil Lorentz invariance in scalar, Dirac and gauge field theories. The leading IR logarithms can be absorbed by time dependent wave function renormalization factors. In the interacting field theory with lambda phi^4, Yukawa and gauge interactions, we find that the couplings become time dependent with definite scaling exponents. We argue that the relative scaling exponents of the couplings are gauge invariant and physical as we can use the evolution of a coupling as a physical time.

June 22 (Fri.) 2:20PM, Room 815 @ NTU, New Physics Building
Yasuhiro Sekino (KEK)
TBA

June 29 (Fri.) 2:20PM-3:50PM, Room 815 @ NTU, New Physics Building
Jia-Rui Sun (ECUST)
TBA

June 29 (Fri.) 4:00PM-5:30PM, Room 815 @ NTU, New Physics Building
Xian-Hui Ge (ECUST)
TBA

school & conference

Conference "N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory, 35 Years After" Mar. 29 (Thu) - Mar. 31 (Sat), 2012, Caltech, USA
Progress in Quantum Field Theory and String Theory Apr. 3 (Tue) - Apr. 7 (Sat), 2012, Media Center, Osaka City University, Japan
25th Spring School on Particles and Fields Apr. 5 (Thu) - Apr. 8 (Sun), 2012, National Taiwan University, Taipei
Branes and Black Holes Workshop May. 28 - June. 1 , 2012,King's College London, UK
Strings 2012 July 23rd to July 28th, 2012, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany.
YKIS2012 From Gravity to Strong Coupling Physics Oct. 15 - Oct. 19 , 2012,Kyoto, Japan
StringWiKi link