Physics

IAS Quantum Aspects of Black Holes Group Meeting

August 28, 2025 | 11:00am - 12:00pm

Abstract: Thermal correlators in large N systems equilibrate at late times, but the precise functional behavior is unknown away from holographic and free field limits. In this talk I will analyze this problem in the case of the SYK model at high...

Informal Physics Seminar

June 05, 2025 | 11:00am - 12:30pm

Abstract: We compute the supersymmetric index of half BPS black holes in N=2 supergravity with higher curvature corrections and show that the result agrees with the degeneracy of supersymmetric extremal black holes carrying the same charges. Both...

IAS CMP/QFT Group Meeting

May 12, 2025 | 11:00am - 12:00pm

Abstract: An intrinsic quantity characterizing a scale-invariant quantum field theory (SFT) is its thermal mass gap, controlling its correlation length at finite temperature. By scale-invariance, this is a pure number in units of the temperature...