Abstract: The extreme-density environments
inside neutron stars provide a unique natural testbed for probing
nuclear physics. In the first part of this talk, I will explain how
gamma-ray burst observations can be used to extract information
about...
Abstract: I will describe a quantum mechanical
model involving N interacting fermions without disorder that has a
large N melonic expansion. In particular, it has the same
Schwinger-Dyson equations and low energy physics as the \mathcal{N}
= 2...
Abstract: In this talk I’ll describe work in
progress with Tommaso Marini and Xiaoliang Qi on the generalized
Schwarzian action that governs the exact large q dynamics of SYK
with a time-dependent Maldacena-Qi coupling. We find that the
SYK...
Abstract: I will employ twistor string
theory to construct a bulk dual of N = 4 super
Yang-Mills in the regime of weak 't Hooft coupling.
I will also discuss applications of this duality to the study
of scattering amplitudes, giant graviton...
Abstract: Ordered phases of matter, such as
solids, ferromagnets, superfluids, or quantum topological order,
typically only exist at low temperatures. Despite this conventional
wisdom, we present explicit local models in which all such
phases...
Abstract: I will survey recent developments in
the matrix bootstrap, a non-perturbative method for solving large N
quantum systems, including applications to the c=1 string and BFSS.
I will also discuss work in progress with Klebanov and...
