Past Events

The spiritual art of Calculus and the union of Heaven and Earth

2020-05-08
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86812718439?pwd=NGF5WjU4alNnUVFDZVhVdldrR0RGUT09

Seminar for general audience, about mankind's discovery of magic.
Speaker: Yasha Neiman.
Title: "The spiritual art of Calculus and the union of Heaven and Earth".

Clean hands and the Scientific Revolution

2020-04-23
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85103875765

General geek-out Zoom Webinar.
Speaker: Yasha Neiman.
Title: Clean hands and the Scientific Revolution.

[Seminar] "Aspects of ghost-free nonlocal field theories" by Dr. Luca Buoninfante

2020-03-09
A719, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Luca Buoninfante, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Friederike Metz

2020-03-06
Lab 1, C016

Theoretical Physics Seminar.
Speaker: Friederike Metz (Quantum Systems).
Title: "Precise temperature estimation with a single qubit as a probe".

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Deepak Bhat

2020-02-21
Lab 1, D014

Theoretical Physics Seminar.
Speaker: Deepak Bhat (Biological Complexity).
Title: "Polarization and Consensus of Opinion: Causes and Characteristics".

[Seminar] "Spacetime Foam and the Cosmological Constant" by Prof. Steven Carlip

2020-02-20
D015, Lab 1

Speaker: Prof. Steven Carlip, University of California, Davis

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Riccardo Martini

2020-02-07
Lab 1, C016

Theoretical Physics Seminar.
Speaker: Riccardo Martini (Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory).
Title: "Renormalization methods in quantum gravity".

Group Meeting Talk: BMS Symmetry and OPE of Celestial CFTs

2020-02-03
A719, Lab 3

Title : BMS Symmetry and OPE of Celestial CFTs

Speaker: Sudip Ghosh

Abstract: The holographic dual of quantum gravitational theories in asymptotically flat spacetimes has recently been conjectured to be the so called celestial conformal field theories whose correlation functions are Mellin transforms of bulk scattering amplitudes. In this talk I will discuss aspects of a derivation of the OPE in these CFTs from the collinear singularities of graviton scattering amplitudes and the constraints of BMS symmetries on the OPE coefficients. 

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Alistair Graham

2020-01-31
Lab 1, D014

Theoretical Physics Seminar.
Speaker: Alistair Graham (Quantum Gravity).
Title: "Measuring Chaos in General Relativity".

Journal club seminar: Implications of Symmetry and Pressure in Friedmann Cosmology

2020-01-29
B 711, Lab 3

Title: Implications of Symmetry and Pressure in Friedmann Cosmology

Abstract: We will continue the discussion of the recent paper by K. S. Croker and J. L. Weiner    "Implications of Symmetry and Pressure in Friedmann Cosmology". Carlos Octavio Villalpando Vargas will be leading the discussion. 

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