Physics

Abstract: Black holes (BHs) can acquire magnetosphere and horizon-penetrating magnetic fluxes from plasma inflow or mergers with magnetized neutron stars. Several numerical studies have shown that a black hole magnetosphere relaxes into a split...

Abstract: How much current does a sliding electron crystal carry? The answer to this simple question has important implications for the dynamic properties of the crystal, such as the frequency of its cyclotron motion, and its phonon spectrum. In...

Abstract:  I will talk about light-ray operators in QFTs, particularly in the critical O(N) model, focusing on the leading-twist and horizontal Regge trajectories. Conceptually, I will distinguish between light-ray operators in two conformal frames...

Abstract: As the LHC moves into its high-luminosity era, discovery potential will hinge not just on data volume, but on the intelligence of real-time selection systems. The CMS experiment processes petabytes of data every second, using an FPGA-based...

Abstract: I will discuss some upcoming work with Jonah. We investigated the extent to which hallmark features of bulk gravity survive at finite string tension in holographic models. Working in the non-interacting limit, we model excited string modes...

Abstract: Not much is known about what happens at the end of black hole evaporation. Pushing the semi-classical evolution well beyond its regime of validity suggests that the final Cauchy slice breaks into a piece that remains behind the event...

Abstract: Machine learning (ML) is an increasingly vital tool at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, from online data collection to offline interpretation. I will trace how ML is driving new-physics discovery...

Abstract: "Algebraic" field theorists and "categorical" field theorists are both very interested in what it means for a quantum field theory to be "local," but the perspectives taken by these two communities are quite different. I will discuss two...

Abstract: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna is a planned space-based detector that will measure gravitational waves in the milli-hertz regime. One of the primary targets for LISA is an extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI), where a stellar mass...