Past Events

Date
Friday, March 15, 2024. 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Speaker:
Aidan Herderschee

The Banks-Fischler-Shenker-Susskind (BFSS) theory is a matrix model conjecturally dual to M-theory in eleven dimensional asymptotically flat space when the size of the matrices is taken large.

Date
Tuesday, March 12, 2024. 3:30pm
Speaker:
Tova Holmes

Abstract: Over the last century, the construction and discovery of the Standard Model of particle physics has been one of the greatest accomplishments in physics.

Date
Monday, March 11, 2024. 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Speaker:
Henrik Wilming

Embezzlement refers to the counterintuitive possibility of extracting entangled quantum states from a reference state of an auxiliary system (the "embezzler") via local quantum operations while…

Date
Friday, March 8, 2024. 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Speaker:
Melissa Diamond

I present a novel way to produce dark compact objects and primordial black holes.

Date
Friday, March 8, 2024. 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Speaker:
Shota Komatsu

We revisit the Berenstein-Maldacena-Nastase (BMN) conjecture relating M-theory on a PP-wave background and Matrix Quantum Mechanics (MQM).