Selected Recent Talks
Gives a precise realization of the "strings from Feynman diagrams" paradigm to manifestly recast a subsector of N=4 SYM as a dual closed string theory. Lots of pictures explaining how Strebel differentials provide the key tool to translate between graphs and 2d surfaces.
A condensed but friendly overview of the new picture as to how strings emerge from matrix Feynman diagram for an audience consisting of many of the pioneers of the matrix model/string revolution of the 80s/90s.
A short summary talk, geared towards mathematical physicists, recasting the GUE ensemble as a bona-fide string theory.
A 30min talk proposing there are two underlying mechanisms as to how large N gauge theories reassemble themselves into closed strings. They can be simultaneously realized by strings on two sets of branes. Discusses the Kontsevich model as a basic example, then moves on to a protected subsector of N=4 SYM.
A pedagogical 1h30 lecture outlining the vision as to how one might go about deriving something like AdS/CFT starting from 't Hooft's diagrammatic paradigm. Spells out how this works concretely for the Gaussian matrix model.
A 45min overview talk for a gauge theory and integrability audience, explaining how both 2d Riemann surfaces and holomorphic covering maps lurk beneath familiar gauge theory quantities.
