HIP NEWS February 20th 2017 ============================== DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS —————————————————————————– Tuesday 21 February 2017 at 10.15 in A315 Anupam Mazumdar (Lancaster) Infinite derivative ghost free and singularity free theory of gravity Abstract: I will discuss how to construct ghost free and singularity free theory of gravity which can also...Continue reading→

HIP NEWS February 13th 2017 ============================== DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS —————————————————————————– Tuesday 14 February 2017 at 10.15 in A315 Blaise Goutéraux (Nordita) Bad Metals from Density Waves Abstract: So-called ‘bad metals’ present a long-standing conundrum to theory. In particular, their electric resistivity is too high to be accounted for by...Continue reading→

HIP NEWS February 6th 2017 ============================== DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS —————————————————————————– Thursday 9 February 2017 at 10.15 in A315 Timo Alho (Reykjavik) Monopole correlation functions and holographic phases of matter in 2+1 dimensions Abstract: The strong coupling dynamics of a 2+1 dimensional U(1) gauge theory coupled to charged matter can...Continue reading→