Seminars

Title: Quantum computing for lattice gauge theories: from the Schwinger model to an SO(3) Quantum Link model Speaker: Bipasha Chakraborty (University of Southampton) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Quantum computing provides a promising framework for simulating strongly coupled gauge theories relevant to high-energy physics. In this talk, I will discuss quantum simulations of lattice […]

Title: Gravitational waves from phase transitions in the early Universe: sound waves and MHD turbulence Speaker: Alberto Roper Pol (Geneva) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract:  Gravitational waves (GWs) can be produced by a first-order phase transition in the early Universe via the fluid perturbations induced in the primordial plasma by the expansion and collision […]

Title: 'Are string vacua connected?' Speaker: Ashoke Sen (ICTS-Infosys) Venue&Time: 11:00 / Blue Room Abstract: String theory has many vacua. We shall examine the question of whether these vacua are connected from an experimentalist's perspective. Ashoke Sen is the ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru. His major honours include […]

Title: Entanglement through topological interfaces in CFT revisited Speaker: Christian Northe (Institute of Physics, Prague) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Present theoretical predictions for the entanglement entropy through topological defects are violated in numerical simulations of critical systems. In this talk, I discuss a paradigm shift in the preparation of reduced density matrices in […]

Title: 'Primordial Black Holes -- Positivist Perspective, Quantum Quiddity and Galaxy Genesis' Speaker: Florian Kühnel, (TU Dortmund & LMU Munich) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Primordial black holes are black holes that may have formed in the early Universe. Their masses potentially span a range from as low as the Planck mass up to […]

Title: 'Perturbative aspect of electroweak phase transitions in the Early Universe' Speaker: Andrii Dashko (DESY) Venue&Time: Blue Room / 12:00 Abstract: We present a study of the perturbative description of thermally driven electroweak phase transitions (EWPT) in the early universe. Focusing on strong first-order transitions, which are relevant for gravitational wave cosmology, we examine the […]

Title: 'On the evidence for elastic interactions in the dark sector' Speaker: Jose Beltrán Jiménez, University of Salamanca. Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: The increasing quality of cosmological data has revealed > some tensions among different probes that could be signalling the necessity of incorporating new physics into our cosmological model. One […]

Title: Exploring Effective Theories of Gauged Chiral Symmetries at the LHC and Beyond Speaker: Felix Yu (Mainz U.) Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: I discuss theoretical issues with constructing effective theories of gauged chiral symmetries, taking a quark-universal U(1)_B symmetry as an example.  I will review the phenomenology of the Z-Z’-photon vertex and point […]

Title: 'Weak Particles with a strong impact' Speaker: Aritra Gupta (Krea University, India) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Dark matter and neutrinos are among the most elusive particles in nature, yet they play a central role in the evolution of the Universe. Their extremely weak interactions make them difficult to detect, but also allow […]

Title: 'First Order Phase Transitions and Gravitational Waves' Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Speaker: Marco Finetti (U. Aveiro) Abstract: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be the first space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector, opening a new observational window for both astrophysics and early-Universe cosmology. Operating in the millihertz band, it will probe a rich […]