High Energy Theory Seminar: Emergent N=4 supersymmetry from N=1
Monica Kang (University of Pennsylvania)
I will construct 4d N=1,2 SCFTs with identical central charges a=c (without a large N limit) via the diagonal gauging of collections of non-Lagrangian Argyres–Douglas and conformal matter theories. Utilizing a…
Colloquium: Nonlinear topological photonics
Bo Zhen (University of Pennsylvania)
Topological photonics is a rapidly developing field, often drawing inspirations from the recent successes in electronic systems. Yet there are a few major differences between photons and electrons, leading to…
High Energy Theory Seminar: Double Scaled SYK and de Sitter Holography
Herman L. Verlinde (Princeton University)
In this talk I will describe a new and precise holographic dictionary between the SYK model in the double scaling limit and 2D de Sitter gravity.
What’s inside a black hole? Probing the interior of black holes with gravitational waves
Ramy Brustein (Ben Gurion U. of Negev)
I will present general arguments, based on fundamental physics principles, as to why we should expect a significant, horizon scale, departure from semiclassical gravity inside astrophysical black holes. Then, I will…
Astrophysics Seminar: Interstellar Interlopers and Dark Comets
Darryl Seligman (Cornell University)
In recent years, two entirely new classes of planetesimals have been discovered in the solar system: interstellar interlopers and dark comets. These still-enigmatic objects are challenging our …
Condensed Matter Seminar: Magnetic Chirality
Sang-Wook Cheong (Rutgers University)
Chirality, which arises from the breaking of mirror symmetries combined with any spatial rotations, plays a ubiquitous role in a wide range of phenomena, from the DNA…
High Energy Seminar: Nonlinear Black Hole Ringdown
Macarena Lagos (Columbia University)
Gravitational waves (GWs) offer a unique observational window into the nature of gravity. In particular, the remnant black hole formed after the merger of two compact objects emits GWs with a…
Elon Musk Public Lecture: "The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics"
Sean Carroll (Johns Hopkins University)
One of the great intellectual achievements of the twentieth century was the theory of quantum mechanics, according to which observational results can only be predicted probabilistically rather than with…
Astrophysics seminar: The Red Universe UNCOVERed: Early Spectral results from the JWST Treasury Survey UNCOVER
Jenny Greene (Princeton University), https://crispygreene.wixsite.com/jenny
From brown dwarfs to the first galaxies, JWST is giving us a new look at the Universe in the infrared. UNCOVER has just completed a deep spectroscopic survey in the Hubble Frontier Field Abell 2744. I …
Condensed Matter Seminar: Multi-gap topological physics: geometrical notions, physical phases and novel response
Robert-Jan Slager (University of Cambridge)
I will review recent work on multi-gap topological states. These phases are characterized by topological structures that cannot be captured by advances in more conventional symmetry-based…