Talks I’ve given
(Since abandoning transparencies. Latest version of talks posted only.)
Theory seminars:
Fractional instantons and nonperturbative gauge theory
(shorter version) given at Varna 2025
Fractional instantons and nonperturbative gauge theory given at Bankgok, Seoul 2025 Invertible and noninvertible generalized anomalies for pedestrians: a view from the torus given at Irvine, 2023, Bankgok, Fermilab 2024, Seoul 2025 Anomalies, tori, and new twists in the gaugino condensate given at Bankgok, Minneapolis (video, at 2:32:00), Durham, Jena, 2023, Madrid, Cairns 2024 From the femtouniverse to the real world, via anomalies and twists given at Pisa, San Francisco, Varna, 2023 Charting a path between semiclassical islands given at Minneapolis (video), 2023 On the mixed 0-form/1-form anomaly: pouring the new wine into old bottles given at Simons Center (video), Minneapolis, 2022 Confining strings "from flesh and blood" given at Santa Barbara (video), 2022 The mixed 0-form/1-form anomaly in Hilbert space: pouring the new wine into old bottles given at Simons Center (video), Serpukhov, Syracuse, 2021 Confinement on R^3xS^1 and double-string collapse given at Minneapolis (video), 2021 New ‘t Hooft anomalies and the phases of gauge theories given at “Newton1665” (online seminar, Florence), 2020; CAP Congress, 2021 Domain walls, anomalies, and deconfinement given at Harvard (CMSA online seminar), 2020 Domain walls and deconfinement: a semiclassical picture of discrete anomaly inflow given at Miami, 2019 Hot and cold domain walls and anomaly matching given at Aspen, Trieste, Raleigh, 2019 Higher symmetry ‘t Hooft anomalies, phase structure, and domain walls given at Minneapolis, Syracuse, Varna, Pisa, 2019 given at Princeton, Miami, 2018 Discrete anomaly matching and high-T “center vortices” in QCD(adj) given at Maynooth, 2018 Discrete symmetries, ‘t Hooft anomalies and “adiabatic continuity” given at Santa Fe, 2018 Confining strings, walls, and anomalies in (not only) circle-compactified gauge theories given at Irvine, San Diego, 2018 Confinement and strings in circle-compactified gauge theories: “same and different” given at New York, 2017 Emergent dimensions and branes from large-N confinement given at Seattle, 2016; Varna, 2017 When instantons do “nothing”: the curious case of extended supersymmetry given at Tokyo, 2016 The curious case of multi-instantons and the necessity of Lefshetz thimbles given at St Petersburg, Melbourne, 2016 New aspects of abelian confinement given at Minneapolis, 2016 Confining strings on R^3 x S^1 given at Minneapolis, Madrid, Yale, 2015 Resurgence in QFT? Supersymmetry and neutral bions: hints about deconfinement? given at Yaroslavl, 2012; Minneapolis, Paris, Heidelberg, Trieste 2013; Syracuse, Seoul, Sofia, St Petersburg 2014 Electric-magnetic Coulomb gases, affine XY-spin models, and deconfinement given at Purdue, Miami, SFSU, Seoul, Puri (India), 2011/2012 Holography, large-N volume independence, and continuity given at College Park, 2010, INR Moscow, Pohang, 2012 Magnetic bions, multiple adjoints, and Seiberg-Witten theory given at Minneapolis, Paris, Spring/Summer 2011 Lattice chirality: a mission (im)possible? given at UCSD, Spring 2009, Maryland, Fall 2010 Monopoles, bions, and other oddballs in confinement or conformality given in Toronto, Harvard, Argonne, Fermilab, Irvine, Odense, Santa Fe, Brookhaven, Miami, 2010, Perimeter, Michigan, Davis, SLAC, Moorea, 2011 Confinement or conformality: (IR)relevance of topological excitations? given in Boston Univ., Aspen (by M. Unsal), 2009/10 Circle compactifications: index, Chern-Simons terms, and chiral dynamics given at INT Seattle, Durham (UK), Paris, 2009 Lattice chirality and the Eichten-Preskill dream given at Sergiev Posad, Syracuse, Cornell, SLAC, Berkeley, Fall 2008 Flavor in supersymmetry with an enhanced R-symmetry given in Minneapolis, Barcelona, Summer 2008 Latttice chirality and the decoupling of mirror fermions given at CERN, Toronto, Minneapolis, Yale, Columbia, St Louis, Los Alamos, Irvine, New York Univ., Boston Univ., Summer 2007/Spring 2008 Old and new in the lattice definition of chiral gauge theories given at UC Davis, SLAC, Harvard, Fermilab, Toronto, Fall 2006 Chiral lattice gauge theories from warped domain walls given at Santa Fe, Sofia, Minneapolis, Summer 2006 Recent developments in lattice supersymmetry given at Rutgers, Princeton, Delaware, Trieste, Technion, Varna, 2005/2006 Lessons from supersymmetric quantum mechanics given at MIT, Los Alamos, Arizona, 2004/05 Lattice supersymmetry, superfields, and renormalization given at Minneapolis, Berkeley, UCLA, Boston U., Toronto, Santa Fe, 2004/5 Colloquia: given at Perimeter, NCSU, Fall 2013, Sao Paulo 2014 Chirality, particle physics, and ``theory space” given in Aspen, Spring 2010 Chirality, particle physics, and ``theory space” given in Bern, Spring 2010 The wonders of supersymmetry: from quantum mechanics, topology, and noise, to (maybe) the LHC given at Carleton University, 11/2005; Toronto,10/2007; Arizona, 1/2008; York Univ., 3/2009; UCLA, 5/2009; Fermilab, 4/2010; SFSU, 4/2012 The Standard Model and physics below 10 TeV given at ATLAS Canada Physics Workshop, Toronto, Spring 2007 given at Georgia Tech; York Univ., 2004/5 Lecture notes from theoretical physics schools: “Center symmetry and anomaly matching”, 11th Odense (Denmark) Winter School, November 2018 Lecture notes
“Confinement, Yang-Mills, and Super-Yang-Mills”, lecture notes pdf notes;
W.E. Heraues Summer School “Saalburg”, 22nd edition, Wolfersdorf, Thuringia, Germany, September 2016
given at Perimeter, 2014; KITP, 2015