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Upcoming Events

January
23
Date
Friday, January 23, 2026. 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location
Varian 355
Speaker:
Tom Hartman

I will discuss recent work on the path integral of pure 3D gravity on a finite region of spacetime with boundary conditions that fix dihedral angles or geodesic lengths.

January
23
Date
Friday, January 23, 2026. 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location
Varian 312
Speaker:
David Cyncynates

The QCD axion may offer a unified origin for the baryon asymmetry and dark matter through axiogenesis, however in the minimal QCD axion scenario, axiogenesis either underproduces baryons or…

January
27
Date
Tuesday, January 27, 2026. 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

ABSTRACT: Research security, as defined by the US government, refers to “safeguarding the research enterprise against the misappropriation of research and development to the…

February
3
Date
Tuesday, February 3, 2026. 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

Abstract: Modern cosmology has revived interest in some early 20th century puzzles that had seemed to be more philosophical than scientific, the problems of …

February
17
Date
Tuesday, February 17, 2026. 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

Abstract: The computational resources required to describe the full state of a quantum many-body system scale exponentially with the number of constituents.