Physics

This seminar will be presented in-person and on Zoom.
https://theias.zoom.us/j/84232389159?pwd=UAWukoEv3RMKL8ssHZ2nUfIwggISU7.1

Abstract: I will showcase the computation of the next-to-leading order scattering waveform in classical gravity using...

Abstract: I will explain my reasons for thinking that the double-scaled SYK theory at infinite temperature is a theory of de Sitter space.

Abstract: TBA

Abstract: The quantum extremal surface (QES) formula is an important tool for computing entropy in gravity. For a while, the lore was that this formula offers a good approximation whenever the state is sufficiently semiclassical, i.e. well-described...

Abstract: I will start with some comments about the theoretical and experimental status of conformal invariance in critical phenomena, first proposed by A. Polyakov in 1970. I will then focus on a couple of experimentally significant models of...

Abstract: The key word in the title is “IN”. Unlike AdS where observers can be thought of as living on the boundary of space, or even in a laboratory beyond the boundary, in dS the observer is part of the system; he or she lives “in” the de Sitter...

This seminar will be presented in-person and on Zoom.
https://theias.zoom.us/j/84232389159?pwd=UAWukoEv3RMKL8ssHZ2nUfIwggISU7.1

Abstract: The entropy of supersymmetric black holes in string theory compactifications can be related to that of a D- or...

This seminar will be presented in-person and on Zoom.
https://theias.zoom.us/j/84232389159?pwd=UAWukoEv3RMKL8ssHZ2nUfIwggISU7.1

Abstract: "Saturons" are macroscopic objects that exhibit maximal micristate degeneracy within the validity of a given...