Speaker: Tarun Souradeep (Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India) Venue & Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: The Cosmological Principle, a fundamental tenet of the 'standard model of cosmology’, predicates a statistically isotropic distribution of fluctuations in the measured cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization sky maps. Enigmatic anomalies claimed in the WMAP and […]

Speaker: Anthony Zee (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA) Venue & Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: I give an overview and appreciation of quantum field theory, the most precisely tested theory in physics. The talk is addressed to those without any knowledge of quantum field theory. It is based […]

Speaker: Alexander Zlokapa (MIT) Venue & Time: Red Room / 11:30 Abstract: In the classical setting, glassiness characterizes many natural problems (e.g., random k-SAT) and underlies average-case hardness by obstructing a family of "stable" classical algorithms (e.g., constant-time Langevin dynamics). In this work, we develop analogous quantum results. Our techniques, based on quantum optimal transport, […]

Speaker: Roberto Vega-Morales Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: In this talk I will discuss constant classical electric fields and the Schwinger effect in de Sitter space, which has potential implications for magnetogenesis and inflationary dark matter production. I will first go through the conditions for sustaining a constant electric field in de Sitter space […]