Journal clubs

Speaker: Matthias Carosi from Munich, Tech. U. Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: First-order phase transitions in the early universe are a unique probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, with potential implications for electroweak baryogenesis, the formation of primordial black holes, magnetogenesis and the production of dark matter. Upcoming gravitational wave detectors may […]

Speaker: Aram Harrow (MIT) Venue&Time: Grey Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: Given a vector v, what is the closest k-sparse vector? The answer to this question is usually that we should take the largest k entries of v. It turns out that we can do better with randomized approximations. When approximating pure bipartite entangled states […]

Speaker: Sounak Pal (Indian Institute of Technology) Venue&Time: Grey Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: I will discuss some aspects of 2D and 3D quantum gravity in the language of Topological quantum field theory (TQFT). Recent developments include calculating various gravity partition functions in AdS3 using descriptions of Liouville conformal field theory (CFT). We extend this […]

Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM in the discussion room on the 5th floor. Join the IFT cosmology/gravity journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them.

Speaker: Alex Gagliano (IAIFI/MIT) Venue&Time: 11:00 / Grey Room 2 Absrtact: Supernovae are powered by diverse physical mechanisms such as radioactive decay, circumstellar interaction, and magnetar spin-down, but distinguishing among them from light curves alone remains a major challenge. In this talk, I’ll present a hierarchical simulation-based inference framework that jointly infers both the dominant […]

Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM in the discussion room on the 5th floor. Join the IFT cosmology/gravity journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them.