QMAP Events
The center will host various events of interest both to the scientific community working on related areas as well as events aimed at explaining to a wide audience the science we explore.
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 seminars take place in the room QMAP 3204. In 2022, they are all mostly virtual. QMAP math and QMAP particles/cosmology meet for virtual seminars in QMAP 3204, but remote access is also possible.
More details, including the schedule can be found here.
In addition there are regular seminar series in the Physics and Mathematics Departments which are of interest. For details please consult:
QMAP colloquium
The main regular event is the QMAP colloquium. It brings high profile speakers to address audience of both physicists and mathematicians interested in the core topics of the QMAP center. More information can be found here.
Past colloquia:
May 24, 2022: Martin Fraas (UC Davis): Quantum trajectories
QMAP colloquia were not held in 2020-2021 because of COVID-19 pandemic.
Past colloquia:
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
Organizers are Jaroslav Trnka and Tudor Dimofte. More details on past and future colloquia can be found here.
QMAP workshops
QMAP will also regularly organize conferences, workshops and summer schools. This will bring to the campus experts in respective research areas to discuss latest developments.
The list of recently organized workshops, conferences and summer schools:
- Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, March 25-26, 2022
- California Amplitudes Meeting, March 5-6, 2022
- Geomplitudes (virtual), September 15-16, 2020
- Spring School on Categorical Wall Crossing, May 10-15, 2020
- California Amplitudes Meeting, June 1-2, 2019
- Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity V, August 19-23, 2019
- Chiral Algebras of the 21st Century - April 15- 19, 2019
- Amplitudes 2018 Summer School - June 11-15, 2018
- Developments in Fields, Strings, Gravity, December 12-16, 2016
- California Amplitudes Meeting, June 7-10, 2016
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.
There will be an annual QMAP conference which where the QMAP members will present their research. This will consist of both expert talks and public talks for the wider campus community. The first QMAP conference is scheduled for spring 2020.
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.