Physics

A complete and universal equivalence between soft theorems inquantum field theories and asymptotic symmetries in flat spacetimes has recently emerged. We review these developments and show that the equivalence also extends to theories with higher...

This talk addresses the problem of counting the microstates of supersymmetric asymptotically AdS black holes in terms of a holographically dual field theory. We focus on a particular BPS class of AdS2 x S2 near-horizon geometry in N=2 gauged...

I will give an elementary introduction to neural network models commonly used in deep learning. These include feed-forward neural networks, recurrent neural networks and memory models. If time permits, a few open problems in the field will also be...

The Schwarzian theory was proposed by A. Kitaev as a low energy effective theory for quantum mechanical systems presenting holographic behavior, beginning with the SYK model. In this talk we will study the Schwarzian theory as a limit of two...

Gauging of bosonic and fermionic symmetry protected topological (SPT) states with discrete symmetry produces simple yet non-trivial topological quantum field theories (TQFTs). Some of the natural observables in such TQFTs are expectation values of...

Supersymmetric gauge theories in various spacetime dimensions lead to enumerative problems: counting of holomorphic curves in Calabi-Yau manifolds, intersection theory on moduli spaces of instantons, limit shapes for random Young diagrams in two and...

The traversable wormhole protocol of Gao, Jafferis and Wall gives us a glimpse behind the horizon of certain black holes. I will describe this effect and discuss some limited applications to the black hole information problem. Based on a recent...