Speaker
Christopher Herzog
(King's College London)
Description
There is a graphene-like boundary conformal field theory which consists of charged conformal degrees of freedom confined to a surface interacting with a photon in the bulk. A long introduction will develop several features of this theory: its relation to graphene and three dimensional QED; ways to introduce supersymmetry; its behavior under the action of SL(2,Z). Then I will talk about recent work describing our efforts to subject this theory to the numerical conformal bootstrap.
