Past Events

Date
Tuesday, February 6, 2024. 3:30pm
Speaker:
Roger Blandford

The development of classical electromagnetism and quantum electrodynamics are highpoints of nineteenth and twentieth century physics, respectively.

Date
Friday, February 2, 2024. 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Speaker:
Marios Galanis

Pioneered in the 1950s by Hanbury Brown and Twiss, intensity interferometry refers to the correlation of light intensities incident on two telescopes.

Date
Friday, February 2, 2024. 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Speaker:
Sungyeon Yang

The integrable TT + \Lambda_2 deformation of a holographic CFT_2 contains universal dressed energy bands whose state count matches the refined Gibbons-Hawking entropy of dS_3, as predicted by…

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…