Colloquium: Theia: Illuminating Neutrinos with a New Kind of Detector
Josh Klein (University of Pennsylvania)
High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"
Lorenzo Ricci (University of Maryland)
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Optical neural networks for faster AI and super resolution imaging
Alex Lvovsky (University of Oxford)
Although machine intelligence is taking over the world, its current digital electronic platform is very inefficient in terms of energy consumption. Switching to analogue computation, which function more like human…
Astrophysics Seminar: Near-field Cosmology with Stellar Streams
Nora Shipp (Carnegie Mellon)
Stellar streams, the tidal remnants of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies orbiting throughout the Milky Way’s halo, are some of the most powerful tools in the study of near-field cosmology. In particular, they are…
High Energy Theory Seminar: 5D SCFTs, Brane Webs, GTPs, Quivers and Geometry
Sebastian Franco (CUNY)
String/M-Theory provides various approaches for constructing 5d Superconformal Field Theories, most notably geometric engineering via M-theory on toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds and webs of (p,q) 5-branes in Type IIB String…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Learning the shape of the immune and protein universe
Armita Nourmohammad (University of Washington)
The adaptive immune system consists of highly diverse B- and T-cell receptors, which can recognize a multitude of diverse pathogens. Immune recognition relies on molecular interactions between…
High Energy Theory Seminar: Topological defects on the worldsheet
Konstantinous Roumpedakis (Johns Hopkins University)
In this talk, I will discuss the implications of non-invertible topological defects on the worldsheet. I will consider two different setups where such defects arise in string theory. The first setup is toroidal…