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November 23, 2022 9:00 amThe Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) model predicted the existence of the narrow bands in the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), and nowadays is a starting point for most theoretical works. In this...
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November 22, 2022 9:30 amRecent progress in AdS/CFT has provided a good understanding of how the bulk spacetime is encoded in the entanglement structure of the boundary CFT. However, little is known about how...
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November 18, 2022 11:00 amIn string theory one finds that states become massless as one approaches boundaries in Calabi-Yau moduli spaces. In this talk we look in the opposite direction, that is, we search...
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November 17, 2022 9:30 amQuasi-normal modes are complex exponential frequencies appearing in long time expansions of solutions to linear wave equations on black hole backgrounds. They appear in particular during the ringdown phase of...
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November 17, 2022 1:00 pmMy lab is developing biophysical methods to achieve multicolor and dynamic biological imaging at the molecular scale. Our approach to capturing the dynamics of cellular processes involves cryo-vitrifying samples after...
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November 16, 2022 3:30 pmIn this talk, we describe the first polynomial time algorithm for robustly clustering a mixture of statistically-separated, high-dimensional Gaussians. Prior to our work this question was open even in the...
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November 16, 2022 12:30 pmIn nature, symmetry governs regularities, while symmetry breaking brings texture. In artificial neural networks, symmetry has been a central design principle, but the role of symmetry breaking is not well...
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November 16, 2022 10:00 amWhen a collection of electronic excitations are strongly coupled to a single mode cavity, mixed light-matter excitations called polaritons are created. The situation is especially interesting when the strength of...
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November 15, 2022 9:30 amIt has long been known that the quantum ground state of a metal is characterized by an abstract manifold in momentum space called the Fermi sea. Fermi sea can be...
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November 15, 2022 11:00 amThe Emergence Proposal claims that in Quantum Gravity the kinetic terms of the the fields in the IR emerge from integrating out (infinite) towers of particles up to the QG...
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