Ingmar Akira Saberi

Invited talks

• Spectral sequences in and around physics.
  Winter conference on "Quantum knot homology and supersymmetric gauge theories," Aspen Center for Physics, March 8, 2018.
• Rudiments of quantization.
  Heidelberg „kennenlernen“ seminar, December 13, 2017.
• Lattice field theories, hierarchy, and holography.
  QMAP seminar, University of California at Davis, November 3, 2017.
• p-adic approaches to discretizing holography.
  Sixth international conference on p-adic mathematical physics and its applications, CINVESTAV, Mexico City, October 26, 2017.
• Brane quantization and the double affine Hecke algebra.
  Seminar in theoretical physics, Uppsala Universitet, October 11, 2017.
• Brane quantization and the double affine Hecke algebra.
  QGM seminar, Centre for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces, Aarhus, October 4, 2017.
• An introduction to the quantization problem.
  QGM introductory seminar series, Centre for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces, Aarhus, October 3, 2017.
• Holographic lattice field theories.
  DESY theory workshop, Hamburg, September 28, 2017.
• Scale invariance, lattice models, and holography.
  STRUCTURES Arbeitstagung der Universität Heidelberg, July 14, 2017.
• Holographic lattice field theories.
  Heidelberg theoretical physics institute (seminar of Prof. M. Salmhofer), June 28, 2017.
• Holographic lattice field theories.
  Caltech high-energy theory seminar, April 21, 2017.
• Holographic lattice field theories.
  Harvard CMSA mathematical physics seminar, April 17, 2017.
• Holographic lattice field theories.
  Heidelberg Oberseminar „Physical mathematics,“ April 10, 2017.
• A rough-and-ready introduction to some mathematical applications of quantum field theory.
  Washington State University physics colloquium, August 30, 2016.
• Holography on discrete bulk spaces: arithmetic generalizations of AdS₃/CFT₂.
  Caltech Institute for Quantum Information & Matter journal club, June 6, 2016.
• Holography on discrete bulk spaces: arithmetic generalizations of AdS₃/CFT₂.
  SoCal Grad Strings, May 17, 2016.
• Supersymmetric quantum mechanics revisited.
  String seminar, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, April 19, 2016.
• The physics and number theory of the A-polynomial.
  Series of three lectures at the International Conference in Number Theory and Physics, IMPA, June 2015. Videos are available.
  After S. Gukov and I. Saberi (forthcoming).

Submitted talks

• Holography on discrete bulk spaces: arithmetic generalizations of AdS₃/CFT₂.
  Columbia University theory group meeting, January 19, 2017.
• Quantization, knot invariants, and mysterious singularities. After S. Gukov and I. Saberi (forthcoming).
  Gone Fishing meeting, Boulder, March 12, 2016.
• Sequencing BPS Spectra. After S. Gukov, S. Nawata, I. Saberi, M. Stošić, and P. Sułkowski, arXiv:hep-th/1512.07883 (2015).
  Caltech high-energy theory seminar, January 13, 2016.
• An introduction to Heegaard Floer homology.
  West Coast Algebraic Topology Summer School, PIMS, July 2014.

Other talks around Caltech

• Knots, trees, and fields.
  My (rather bucolic) thesis defense. June 16, 2016.
• A pedestrian tour of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. After H. Kim and I. Saberi, arXiv:hep-th/1511.00978 (2015).
  Theory graduate student journal club, October 27, 2015.
• Crossroads between physics, geometry, and arithmetic: moduli spaces over finite fields. After S. Gukov and I. Saberi (forthcoming).
  My candidacy exam. October 31, 2014.
• A K3 in φ⁴. After F. Brown and O. Schnetz, Duke Math. Jour. 161 (10), pp. 1817–1862 (2012).
  Ma 191c: Motives and Quantum Field Theory (Matilde Marcolli). May 29, 2014.
• Wormholes and entanglement. After J. Baez and J. Vicary, Classical and Quantum Gravity 31 (21), 214007 (2014).
  Theory graduate student journal club, April 1, 2014.
• Classifying possible actions for topological gauge theories. After R. Dijkgraaf and E. Witten, Comm. Math. Phys. 129 (2), pp. 393–429 (1990).
  Theory graduate student journal club, January 15, 2014.
• Is there life beyond quantum mechanics? After A. Kapustin, arXiv:1303.6917 (2013).
  Theory graduate student journal club, May 8, 2013.
• Quantum field theory and the Jones polynomial, II. After E. Witten, Comm. Math. Phys. 121 (3), pp. 351–399 (1989).
  Theory graduate student journal club, January 30, 2013.
• TQFTs, quantum simulation, and the Jones polynomial. After M. Freedman, A. Kitaev, and Z. Wang, Comm. Math. Phys. 227 (3), pp. 587–603 (2002).
  Ma 148a: The Geometry and Physics of Information Theory (Matilde Marcolli). December 5, 2012.
• Quantum field theory and the Jones polynomial, I. After E. Witten, Comm. Math. Phys. 121 (3), pp. 351–399 (1989).
  Theory graduate student journal club, November 15, 2012.

Travel to conferences

• Workshop on arithmetic geometry and quantum field theory, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, August 2018
• Perspectives on the Riemann hypothesis, Bristol, June 2018
• Quantum knot homology and supersymmetric gauge theories, Aspen Center for Physics, March 2018
• Sixth international conference on p-adic mathematical physics and its applications, CINVESTAV, Mexico City, October 2017
• DESY Theory Workshop, DESY, Hamburg, September 2017
• Topological and geometric methods in QFT, Montana State University, Bozeman, August 2017
• Arbeitstagung 2017 on physical mathematics (in honor of Yuri Manin), MPI für Mathematik, Bonn, June 2017
• Workshop on quantum fields, knots, and integrable systems, ICMS Edinburgh, March 2017
• New connections between link homologies and physics, SQuaRE at AIM (continued), January 2017
• Workshop on the geometry and physics of Higgs bundles I, UIC, October 2016.
• Gone Fishing 2016, U.C. Boulder, March 2016
• Higgs bundles in geometry and physics, Heidelberg, February 2016
• New connections between link homologies and physics, SQuaRE at AIM, October 2015
• International Conference in Number Theory and Physics, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, June 2015
• Program on knot homologies, BPS states, and SUSY gauge theories, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, May 2015
• Mathematical Aspects of Six-Dimensional Quantum Field Theories, Berkeley, December 2014
• Homological Methods in Quantum Field Theory, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, September 2014
• West Coast Algebraic Topology Summer School, PIMS, University of British Columbia, July 2014
• Strings 2014, Princeton, June 2014
• Prospects in Theoretical Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, June 2014
• String Math Summer School, PIMS, University of British Columbia, June 2014
• Geometry and Physics of Moduli Spaces, ICMAT, Madrid, May 2014
• Physics and Mathematics of Link Homology (SMS 2013), University of Montreal, June 2013
• Summer School on Topology and Field Theories, University of Notre Dame, May 2012