I will review recent progress connecting (quantum) codes with
two-dimensional conformal field theories of the Narain type. In the
first part of the talk I will show how codes can be used to
construct CFTs with large spectral gap. In the second part...
The detections of gravitational waves from compact binary
mergers and the followup observations of electromagnetic emissions
together provide a powerful and independent tool to explore the
Universe. With successive upgrades to the LIGO and Virgo...
In the first of two lectures I will present a pedagogical
exploration of perhaps the simplest random matrix model, the
Gaussian Unitary Ensemble. It gives the Airy model in the double
scaling limit. I will first review the features that we
usually...
I will discuss features of the static responses of black
holes in General Relativity. In particular, I will describe how
black hole static responses are defined in point particle effective
theory and will explain how the vanishing of black hole...
The study of hyperuniform states of matter is an emerging
multidisciplinary field, influencing and linking developments
across the physical sciences, mathematics and biology. A
hyperuniform many-particle system in d-dimensional Euclidean space
is...
We believe that supermassive black holes reside at the center of
massive galaxies, where they can shine as an active galactic
nucleus (AGN) when supplied with gas to accrete. These black
holes are believed to be important for regulating gas
cooling...
We present constraints on non-local primordial non-Gaussianity
(NLPNG) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey data. We
first review how NLPNG arises in single-field inflationary models.
We then review the Effective Field Theory of Large...
The upper critical dimension of the O(N) vector model is
well-known to be 4. In dimension 4-epsilon it is described by the
Wilson-Fisher IR fixed point of the O(N) invariant scalar field
theory with a small positive quartic coupling. Above 4...
