Events at: Physics South, Leconte Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

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Abstract: I will present a study of an interesting strongly coupled chiral quantum field theory. This theory has the same particle content as the simplest grand unified theory of the Standard Model. I will employ tools such as ‘t Hooft anomaly matching and softly broken supersymmetry to analyze the non-perturbative dynamics of the theory. I will describe some interesting results … Read More

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Abstract: The count of microstates for supersymmetric black holes is typically obtained from a supersymmetric index in weakly-coupled string theory. I will explain how to find the saddles of the gravitational path integral corresponding to this index in a general theory of supergravity in asymptotically flat space. Such saddles exhibit a new attractor mechanism which explains the agreement between the string … Read More