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: Blue Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: The time-evolving night sky is rich with variable stars, supernovae, and merging neutron stars. Wide-field imaging surveys that monitor this variability produce gappy, multi-modal observations that demand scalable, uncertainty-aware models for physical inference. In this talk, I’ll survey my recent work in building machine […]
Speaker: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) Venue & Time: Aula Polivalente, Plaza Mayor UAM / 15:30 Abstract: The dark sector — comprising dark energy and dark matter — has remained a profound mystery for decades. In this talk, I will review this subject and show how string theory naturally leads to a predictive framework for a unified […]
Con motivo del Año Internacional de la Cuántica, el Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT, UAM-CSIC) celebra una nueva edición de su ya tradicional Ciclo de Conferencias de Física Fundamental en la Residencia de Estudiantes. A lo largo de cuatro jornadas, investigadoras e investigadores del IFT, junto a figuras internacionales invitadas, abordarán el papel central que […]
Con motivo del Año Internacional de la Cuántica, el Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT, UAM-CSIC) celebra una nueva edición de su ya tradicional Ciclo de Conferencias de Física Fundamental en la Residencia de Estudiantes. A lo largo de cuatro jornadas, investigadoras e investigadores del IFT, junto a figuras internacionales invitadas, abordarán el papel central que […]
Institution: IFT/IBS Location&Place: IFT Gray Room
Institution: IFT/IBS Location&Place: IFT Gray Room
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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, […]