David Tong: Talks and Presentations

Below is a collection of presentations and conference proceedings. All are aimed at research physicists. More accessible, popular talks, together with some videos and essays can be found on my outreach page.

Community Service

• How to Give a Good Talk

  This was given at a summer school for PhD students. It contains simple, basic advice on how to avoid some common pitfalls when giving a talk.
  


• Here is an update for the covid age: a short (100s) video with some tips on how to teach and give seminars online.
  
  
  
  

Videos

An introduction to the 2019 Dirac Medalists



Comments on 3d dualities at MIT.





Chiral Fermions, at Harvard on Zoom.





Boundary Conditions for Fermions, on Zoom.





Supersymmetry and the Quantum Hall Effect, at ICTS, Bangalore.

Conference Proceedings

• Zakopane Lectures on Holographic Conductivity   PDF
  
• The Innards of an Instanton (Shifmania, Minnesota, 2009)   PostScript  PDF
  
• Open-Closed String Duality in Field Theory? (CAQCD, Minnesota, 2006)   PostScript  PDF
  
• TASI Lectures on Solitons   PostScript  PDF
  
• Vortices, Strings and Vortex Strings: (SUSY 2004 Plenary Talk)   PostScript  PDF
  
• The DBI Model of Inflation: (SUSY 2004 Parallel Talk)  PostScript   PDF