New academic year for the journal club!

Dear all, this academic year's journal club will kick off on October 10th, as follows

• on Thursday, Oct. 10th, Eva Llabres will present "Charged quantum fields in AdS_2" by Dionysios Anninos, Diego Hofman and Jorrit Kruthoff https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.00924.pdf
  
  Note unusual date and room: Salle de Conférence Jean Lascoux (Aile0)
  
  
• on Friday, Oct. 25th, Laura Donnay and Andrea Puhm will review the latest developments in flat space holography as follows:
  
  - Laura will review asymptotic symmetries and connection to soft theorems (based on https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2617 https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3789 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00282 https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09809)
  
  - Andrea will discuss the relation between amplitudes, celestial correlators and OPEs (https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01676 https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10149 https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07424)

Other papers that are up for discussion are:

• "Kerr Black Holes as Elementary Particles" by Nima Arkani-Hamed, Yu-tin Huang and Donal O'Connell https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10100  
  
  "From Scattering Amplitudes to Classical Physics: Universality, Double Copy and Soft Theorems" by Y. F. Bautista, A. Guevara, https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12419                                                                                                           
• "Bounds on chaos from the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis" by C. Murthy, M. Srednicki, https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10808
  
  "Typicality and thermality in 2d CFT" by S. Datta, P. Kraus, B. Michel https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00668
  
  "Lack of thermalization in (1+1)-d QCD at large Nc" by Axel Cortés Cubero, Neil J. Robinson https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.00270.pdf
                                                                           
• "Conformality Lost" by David B. Kaplan, Jong-Wan Lee, Dam T. Son, Mikhail A. Stephanov   https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.4752 
  
  "Symmetry Breaking in Coupled SYK or Tensor Models" by J. Kim, I. Klebanov, G. Tarnopolsky, W. Zhao https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02287

• "A Universal Relation Between Corrections to Entropy and Extremality" by Garrett Goon, Riccardo Penco https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05254 

You are welcome to propose other papers by clicking the comments button below. Also, since the ideal is to have a discussion about these papers,  it would be great if as many people as possible read the papers ahead of time.

Here is some practical information for this year's newcomers

where : CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique, Salle de Conférence Louis Michel (Bât.6)

when:   every other Friday at 2:15 p.m., starting Oct. 10th

topics:  recent papers on the quantum structure of black holes, bulk effective field theory, bulk reconstruction (via bootstrap/entanglement), asymptotic symmetries (BMS)

how it works: one person prepares a presentation, and everyone else reads the paper and prepares for a discussion. Papers can either be chosen from the suggested readings on this website, or the speaker can suggest a paper to read, which should fit with the general topic of the journal club.  

practical:

•  directions to the CPHT can be found at https://www.cpht.polytechnique.fr/?q=fr/node/4
•  we will provide free coffee  at the start of the journal club 
•  internet is provided via eduroam