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

Found at least 20 result(s)

15.11.2006 (Wednesday)

Higgs Bundles, Gauge Theories and Quantum Groups

Triangular Seminar Samson L. Shatashvili (Hamilton Mathematics Institute, Trinity, Dublin)

at:
15:30 KCL
room Franklin-Wilkins Building, Room 1.60
abstract:

(check the triangle webpage under menu 'triangle' for directions to the seminar room)

15.11.2006 (Wednesday)

Matching the Hagedorn temperature in AdS/CFT

Triangular Seminar Troels Harmark (Niels Bohr Institute)

at:
17:00 KCL
room Franklin-Wilkins Building, Room 1.60
abstract:

08.11.2006 (Wednesday)

Ultra-violet finiteness of planar beta-deformed Yang-Mills

Regular Seminar Stefano Kovacs (Trinity College, Dublin)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

01.11.2006 (Wednesday)

Free and interacting higher spin fields on AdS(d)

Regular Seminar Mirian Tsulaia (University of Crete)

at:
13:00 KCL
room 423
abstract:

25.10.2006 (Wednesday)

Geometry and Duality: T-folds and Non-Geometric Backgrounds in String Theory

Regular Seminar Christopher Hull (Imperial College London)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

18.10.2006 (Wednesday)

IIB brane actions and SL(2,R)

Regular Seminar Fabio Riccioni (King's College London)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

Ten-dimensional IIB supergravity is invariant under the symmetry group SL(2.R). We give a classification of all the forms that are present in the IIB supersymmetry algebra as representations of SL(2,R), and we show under which conditions these forms are associated to branes whose effective actions are kappa symmetric. We use these results to give a simple universal SL(2,R)-invariant expression for all IIB brane actions.

11.10.2006 (Wednesday)

Conformal Holography and an AdS Instanton

Regular Seminar Sebastian de Haro (King's College London)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

I will discuss an instanton solution preserving AdS boundary conditions. It arises in a compactification of M-theory to four dimensions, keeping a single scalar coupled to gravity with a phi to the 4th potential. We study the holography of this solution in the context of a toy model, where the effective boundary CFT is a conformally coupled scalar with a phi to the 6th potential in three dimensions. We match bulk and boundary instanton solutions as well as fluctuations around them. Using a form of radial quantization we show that quantum states in the bulk correspond to multiply-occupied single particle states in the boundary theory. I will discuss the interpretation of the instanton in the dual CFT as a deformation by a triple-trace operator, and how the instanton signals an instability of the theory under this deformation.

04.10.2006 (Wednesday)

Counting BPS states

Regular Seminar Bo Feng (Imperial College, London)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

We develop a systematic and efficient method of counting single-trace and multi-trace BPS operators with two supercharges, for world-volume gauge theories of N D-brane probes for both large and finite N. The techniques are applicable to generic singularities, orbifold, toric, non-toric, complete intersections, et cetera, even to geometries whose precise field theory duals are not yet known. The so-called Plethystic Exponential provides a simple bridge between the defining equation of the Calabi-Yau, the generating function of single-trace BPS operators and the generating function of multi-trace operators. Mathematically, fascinating and intricate inter-relations between gauge theory, algebraic geometry, combinatorics and number theory exhibit themselves in the form of plethystics and syzygies.

24.08.2006 (Thursday)

The seminar has been moved to Wednesday

Informal Seminar Thomas Quella (KCL)

at:
13:00 KCL
room 521
abstract:

23.08.2006 (Wednesday)

Supergroup WZW models

Informal Seminar Thomas Quella (KCL)

at:
15:00 KCL
room 521
abstract:

We present recent progress on the solution of WZW models based on type I supergroups. The spectrum is derived in the minisuperspace limit and extrapolated to the full WZW model. The main feature is the occurence of indecomposable non-chiral representations which are responsible for the logarithmic behaviour of correlation functions. The talk will consist of three parts: 1. Representation theory of Lie superalgebras, 2. general type I supergroup WZW models and 3. particularities of the PSU(1,1/2) WZW model. If the audience has enough stamina we can also discuss certain aspects of special marginal deformations of the PSU(1,1/2) WZW model which describe AdS(3)xS(3) with mixed RR and NS fluxes.

09.08.2006 (Wednesday)

Tensor C(star)-categories with non-simple units

Informal Seminar Pasquale Zito (KCL)

at:
15:00 KCL
room 521
abstract:

25.05.2006 (Thursday)

Classical and Quantum Gravity Scientific Meeting

Colloquium Various speakers (various institutes)

at:
9:45 KCL
room 2B08
abstract:

Members of the Editorial Board of Classical and Quantum Gravity will be convening for their annual meeting in London in May and will be taking the opportunity to hold a one day conference to present and discuss their latest research. The meeting will cover the broad range of subjects represented on the Board. Some external speakers have also been invited. The details of the program are available here: http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/events/theorphysics/program-25-5-06.pdf (copy link into your browser).

11.05.2006 (Thursday)

The string field theory of a point

Exceptional Seminar R. C. Penner (USC, Los Angeles)

at:
14:00 KCL
room 423
abstract:

22.03.2006 (Wednesday)

D-branes in Field Theory

Regular Seminar David Tong (Cambridge)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

15.03.2006 (Wednesday)

Black hole partition functions and duality

Regular Seminar Thomas Mohaupt (Liverpool)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

09.03.2006 (Thursday)

The Soliton: Wave or Particle?

Colloquium Michael Atiyah (University of Edinburgh)

at:
18:30 KCL
room IEE, Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL
abstract:

Registration requested. For further details refer to http://www.iee.org/events/kelvin.cfm

08.03.2006 (Wednesday)

Inflation in AdS - CFT

Regular Seminar Mukund Rangamani (Durham)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

22.02.2006 (Wednesday)

Extremal single charge small black holes

Regular Seminar Aninda Sinha (Cambridge)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

15.02.2006 (Wednesday)

g-functions and boundaries, at and away from criticality

Regular Seminar Patrick Dorey (Durham)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

08.02.2006 (Wednesday)

Cosmology and conifolds

Regular Seminar Paul Saffin (Nottingham)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

We shall discuss aspects of how internal manifolds evolve during cosmology, paying particular attention to the regions where the manifold changes topology.