Physics

This workshop aims to explore connections between complexity and optimization with algebra and analysis, which have emerged from the works on operator scaling. The hope is to inform participants from different communities of both basic tools and new...

I discuss a new family of four-dimensional CFTs, recently proposed by O.Gurdogan and myself, emerging as a double scaling limit of weakly coupled and strongly gamma-twisted N=4 SYM theory. These non-supersymmetric and non-unitary CFTs inherit the...

Abstract: I will illustrate three aspects of the new large D limit of matrix models and their applications to black hole physics:i) Graph theory aspect: I will review the basic properties of the new large D limit of matrix models and provide a...

With the recent LIGO results it has been clear that we can learn a lot about the distribution of binary black hole systems. Yet the origin of these black holes is still unknown. Do they come from galactic centers, globular clusters, or from more...

To what extent are deep learning models similar to complex physical systems? I will discuss analogies between aspects of deep learning, glassy systems, and Brownian motion. The results may help us to improve second-order optimization algorithms.

I will make some preliminary investigations to perturbativedynamics in AdS, more precisely the Mellin amplitudes associated to particle scattering, at loop level. With a focus on scalar effective theories, this analysis is fulfilled by introducing...

We discuss some target space aspects of the FZZ duality both in the Euclidean setup of the cigar geometry and in the SL(2)/U(1) black hole. We argue that the 2D classical SL(2)/U(1) black hole could shed some light on quantum black holes in higher...

We reduce the dynamics of a nearly-$AdS_2$ spacetime to that of two particles in $AdS_2$. We determine the class of physically meaningful wavefunctions, normalize them, and find the density of states. These can be derived from analytically...