Past Events

Date
Monday, January 29, 2024. 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Speaker:
Chi-Ming Chang

I will discuss a classification of BPS states into monotone versus fortuitous in holographic CFTs, based on their behaviors in the large N limit.

Date
Friday, January 26, 2024. 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Speaker:
Mustafa Amin

I will argue that if the density of dark matter in the early universe is dominated by subhorizon, non-relativistic field modes, then there is a relatively model-independent bound on the mass of…

Date
Friday, January 26, 2024. 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Speaker:
Adel Ashraf Rahman

I will discuss the various concepts of temperature that appear in the holographic description of de Sitter space using double-scaled SYK (DSSYK) as a motivating example.

Date
Tuesday, January 23, 2024. 3:30pm
Speaker:
Asimina Arvanitaki

The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB) is a relic of the pre-CMB era which encodes a trove of information about the early Universe and the neutrino sector dating back to when the Universe was…

Date
Monday, January 22, 2024. 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Speaker:
Sandip Trivedi

We propose a definition of entanglement entropy in Matrix Theory and discuss its possible connection with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in gravity.