Directions

This institute may be found at Strand in Central London, just north of the Thames (map).

Getting to the Strand Campus:

  • By underground

Temple (District and Circle lines): 2 minute walk. Charing Cross (Bakerloo and Northern lines): 10 minute walk, Embankment (District, Circle and Bakerloo lines): 10 minute walk, Waterloo (Jubilee, Northern, Bakerloo, Waterloo & City lines): 12 minute walk, Holborn (Central and Picadilly lines): 12 minute walk,Chancery Lane (Central line): use exit 4 - 15 minute walk.

  • By train

Charing Cross: 9 minute walk. Waterloo: 12 minute walk. Waterloo East: 10 minute walk. Blackfriars: 12 minute walk.

  • By bus

Buses stopping outside the College: 1, 4, 26, 59, 68, 76, X68, 168, 171, 172, 176(24 hour), 188, 243 (24 hour), 341 (24 hour), 521, RV1.

For more information about public transportations in London, please visit http://www.tfl.gov.uk.

Seminars at King's College London

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12.10.2011 (Wednesday)

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems and antilinear deformations of integrable systems

Regular Seminar Andreas Fring (City University)

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13:15 KCL
room S4.23
abstract:

I will provide a brief general introduction into non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems with real eigenvalue spectra, arguing that they represent well defined self consistent physical systems. Such type of models possess usually an antilinear symmetry, as for instance PT-invariance (simultaneous parity and time reversal) and/or are quasi/pseudo Hermitian. Most crucial is that they allow for a consistent quantum mechanical framework possessing a unitary time evolution. The general framework will be applied to some integrable models, such a quantum spin chains, classical integrable systems associated to differential equations and Calogero-Moser-Sutherland models. I will present some recent results.

12.10.2011 (Wednesday)

05.10.2011 (Wednesday)

Conifold Geometries and NS5-branes

Regular Seminar Jock McOrist (DAMTP)

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13:15 KCL
room S423
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11.05.2011 (Wednesday)

Seiberg-Witten Theory and the Bethe ansatz

Exceptional Seminar Nick Dorey (DAMTP)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

30.03.2011 (Wednesday)

Three-point functions in AdS/CFT and functional light-cone methods

Regular Seminar Tristan McLoughlin (AEI)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

In this talk we will briefly review the recent progress in the semiclassical string theory calculation of non-BPS gauge theory three-point correlation functions at strong coupling. We will then discuss the light-cone path integral approach to such three-point functions with a focus on near-BMN operators where one can systematically go beyond the semiclassical approximation.

23.03.2011 (Wednesday)

Deriving the hydrodynamical description of holographic superfluids

Regular Seminar Julian Sonner (Imperial and Cambridge)

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13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

In my talk I will describe a class of gravitational solutions which, in the context of AdS/CFT, are dual to boundary field theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking and thus give rise to a superfluid phase. I will give a general introduction to the ideas of quantum criticality and how AdS/CFT techniques may be applied to such systems. I will then use the tools of gauge/gravity duality to demonstrate that the boundary description of such systems, in the hydrodynamical limit, is governed by a relativistic generalisation of the Tisza-Landau two-fluid model.

23.03.2011 (Wednesday)

New Physics at the LHC

Exceptional Seminar See link See link ()

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13:15 KCL
room KCL Waterloo Campus
abstract:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/physics/news/TheNewPhysics AT theLHC.aspx

02.03.2011 (Wednesday)

Fusion of line operators, and quantum integrability in AdS/CFT

Regular Seminar Raphael Benichou (VUB)

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13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

I will present recent progress in the understanding of two-dimensional sigma-models on the supergroup PSl(nIn). I will emphasize the relevance of these models to study quantum integrability in the AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular i will explain the computation of the fusion of some line operators, the transfer matrices, that encode an infinite number of conserved charges. This computation leads to a first-principle, perturbative derivation of the Hirota equation, which has been argued to provide a solution to the spectrum problem in N=4 SYM.

23.02.2011 (Wednesday)

An OPE for Polygonal null Wilson Loops

Regular Seminar Luis Fernando Alday (Oxford)

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13:15 KCL
room 423
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09.02.2011 (Wednesday)

M5's, D4's and 5D SYM

Regular Seminar Costis Papageorgakis (King's)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

We revisit the relation of the six-dimensional (2, 0) M5-brane Conformal Field Theory compactified on a circle to 5D maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills Gauge Theory. We show that in the broken phase 5D super-Yang-Mills contains a spectrum of soliton states that can be identified with the complete Kaluza-Klein modes of an M2-brane ending on the M5-branes. This provides evidence that the (2,0) theory on a circle is equivalent to 5D super-Yang-Mills with no additional UV degrees of freedom, suggesting that the latter is in fact a well-defined quantum theory and possibly finite.

02.02.2011 (Wednesday)

26.01.2011 (Wednesday)

M-theory and Generalised geometry

Regular Seminar David Berman (Queen Mary)

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13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

We reformulate M-theory in a duality manifest way using generalised geometry.

19.01.2011 (Wednesday)

Higher n-point functions in AdS_3/CFT_2

Triangular Seminar Ingo Kirsch (DESY)

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15:30 KCL
room K2.29
abstract:

19.01.2011 (Wednesday)

Periods of CY Manifolds in Physics and Number Theory

Triangular Seminar Philip Candelas (Oxford)

at:
17:00 KCL
room K2.29
abstract:

12.01.2011 (Wednesday)

TBA

Regular Seminar Carlos Tamarit (KITP)

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13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

13.12.2010 (Monday)

3d N=2 gauge theories for M2-branes at toric CY4 cones and the uplift of D6-branes

Informal Seminar Stefano Cremonesi (Tel Aviv University)

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15:00 KCL
room S6.06
abstract:

I will review recent progress in understanding the 3d N=2 superconformal field theories which describe the low energy dynamics of M2-branes probing toric CY_4 cones in M-theory, based on a KK reduction of M-theory to type IIA string theory. A key role in field theory is played by 't Hooft monopole operators, disorder operators which encode the geometric details of the reduction.

08.12.2010 (Wednesday)

Non-Kahler geometries in String Theory

Regular Seminar Dario Martelli (King's)

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13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

After briefly reviewing the notion of geometries characterised by SU(3) structures, I will discuss a particular class known (in String Theory) as non-Kahler. I will explain how this arises both in Type II and Heterotic Supergravities. Two explicit constructions of these geometries will be discussed. One is a one-parameter solution corresponding to fivebranes wrapped on the two-sphere of the resolved conifold, that can be thought of as a non-Kahler analog of the conifold. The other is a general construction of one-parameter non-Kahler deformations of Calabi-Yau manifolds with a U(1) isometry, where the non-Abelian Yang-Mills field of the Heterotic is non-trivial. The presentation will be loosely based on the two papers: arXiv:0906.0591 and arXiv:1010.4031.

01.12.2010 (Wednesday)

Simplicity of scattering amplitudes and Wilson loops

Regular Seminar Gabriele Travaglini (Queen Mary)

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13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

24.11.2010 (Wednesday)

Tailoring Three-Point Functions and Integrability

Regular Seminar Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute)

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10:30 KCL
room 423
abstract:

10.11.2010 (Wednesday)

Y-system for AdS/CFT

Regular Seminar Nikolay Gromov (King's)

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13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

The Y-system, originating from integrability, is a tool describing the exact spectrum in 4D N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory in a planar limit. We describe the construction and discuss predictions and tests for weak, strong and intermediate couplings.