QMAP Events

The center hosts events of interest both to the scientific community working on related areas, as well as events aimed at explaining the science we explore to a wide audience.

QMAP seminars

There are three weekly seminar series affiliated with QMAP and focused on particular topics:

  • QMAP FSG seminar: Thursdays 1:30pm
  • QMAP math seminar: Fridays 12:10pm
  • QMAP particles/cosmology: Mondays 1:30pm

All in-person seminars take place in the room QMAP 3024, but there are some occasional remote speakers as well.

More details, including the schedule can be found here.

There are also regular seminar series in the Physics and Mathematics Departments which are of interest. For details please consult:

QMAP colloquium

The QMAP colloquium is aimed at bringing spekaers to address an audience of both physicists and mathematicians interested in the core topics of the QMAP center. More information can be found here. While QMAP colloquia were not held in 2020-2021 because of COVID-19 pandemic, we are slowly reviving the practice. 

Past colloquia:

May 24, 2022: Martin Fraas (UC Davis): Quantum trajectories

May 24, 2019: Stephen Shenker (Stanford): Black holes, random matrices, topological recursion and D-branes

March 1, 2019: Nathan Seiberg (IAS): Symmetries, Duality, and the Unity of Physics

February 8, 2019: Robert Wald (Chicago): Quantum Superposition of Massive Bodies

April 11, 2018: Roberto Emparan (Barcelona): Black hole fusion made easy

February 27, 2018, Sergei Gukov (Caltech): Conformal symmetry and 4-manifolds

November 21, 2017, Nicolai Reshetikhin (UC Berkeley): Superintegrable systems

October 24, 2017, Maxim Kontsevich (IHES): Quaternionic D-branes

October 17, 2017, Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS): Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics and Positive Geometry

More details on past and future colloquia can be found here.

QMAP workshops

The center also regularly organizes conferences, workshops, and summer schools. These bring to the campus experts in research areas to discuss latest developments. 

A list of recently organized events includes:

 

QMAP conference

The inaugural QMAP conference, entitled, Recent Developments in Fields, Strings, and Gravity, took place in Dec 2016. Please visit the conference page linked above for details.

 

QMAP public lectures

QMAP will also organize public lectures to educate the general audience and attract young generation. See the webpage for details.

Resources

If you are interested in the technical talks, research seminars etc., you can sign-up to receive announcements at: QMAP mailing list.

For announcements related to the QMAP public lectures etc., you can sign-up at: QMAP Friends mailing list.

Event Calendar