Past Events

Date
Friday, March 1, 2024. 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Speaker:
Carl Caves

One hundred years after Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, the question of how to make simultaneous measurements of noncommuting observables lingers.  I will survey one hundred years of…

Date
Tuesday, February 27, 2024. 3:30pm
Speaker:
Larry Gladney

The Black in Physics (BIP) group at Stanford is excited to invite Larry Gladney to give an in-…

Date
Friday, February 23, 2024. 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Speaker:
Manoj Kaplinghat

A dark force, which is a necessary ingredient of self-interacting dark matter models, can lead to gravothermal collapse of dark matter in small mass halos.

Date
Friday, February 23, 2024. 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Speaker:
Rajesh Gopakumar

Building on earlier work with Eberhardt and Gaberdiel, where we identified the dual to the free symmetric orbifold CFT as string theory on AdS_3xS_3xT^4 with one unit of NS-NS flux, we consider…

Date
Tuesday, February 20, 2024. 3:30pm
Speaker:
Herman Verlinde

Abstract: Research in string theory has uncovered deep connections between strongly coupled quantum systems with chaotic dynamics and the…