Title: 'Machine Learning in Astroparticle Physics' Speaker: Daniel Nieto Castaño (IPARCOS/UCM) Venue&Time: Gray Room 2 / 11:00 Abstract: This seminar presents the motivation for employing machine learning (ML) techniques to mitigate some experimental limitations within the field of astroparticle physics. We will briefly review selected applications across various detection domains, specifically addressing astrophysical neutrinos, cosmic […]

Title: Holographic transport in anisotropic systems Speaker: Claire Moran (Utrecht University) Venue&Time: Blue Room & Zoom / 11:30 Abstract: Understanding transport in strongly coupled quantum systems remains a central challenge across high-energy physics, condensed matter, and quantum many-body theory. Of particular interest is systems exhibiting anisotropy, where the anisotropy leads to a much richer transport […]

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Speaker: Enrico Calogero Domanti Title: "Symmetry-protected topology and deconfined solitons in a multi-link Z2 gauge theory" Venue&Time: Gray Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: With the advent of quantum simulators, exploring exotic collective phenomena in lattice models with local symmetries and unconventional geometries is at reach of near-term experiments. Motivated by recent progress in this direction, […]

Speaker: Aram Harrow (MIT) Title: "Zeros of the partition function and their algorithmic application" Venue&Time: Gray Room 1 / 11:30 Abstract: "At high temperatures quantum systems generally lose long-range order.  We would expect that this makes them easier to simulate.  One way to understand this is through the analytic properties of the partition function.  Viewing […]

Strings, Pheno and the Swampland (SPS) Journal Club   Speaker: Vincent Menet (Università Milano Bicocca)   Title: 'Calibration, fuzziness: new results on AdS vacuum decay'   Venue&Time: Red Room / 11:30   Abstract: Motivated by swampland conjectures, we study the stability of AdS type II supergravity vacua. In the literature, vacuum decay mediated by abelian D-branes […]

Jaime Fernandez Tejedor (IFT) will present "On the Inverse Problem in Effective Field Theory". Venue&Time: Gray Room 2 / 12:00 Abstract: We show that the tree-level spectrum of heavy particles can be directly extracted from the Wilson coefficients of the corresponding effective field theory at low energies. This procedure is exact when the number of […]