Abstract: With the commencement of the
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration’s fourth observing run, the field of
gravitational wave (GW) physics is uniquely poised to collect even
more precise data from compact binary mergers. Consequently, we
will soon...
Abstract: We analyze a model of qubits which we
argue has an emergent quantum gravitational description similar to
the fermionic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. The model we consider
is known as the quantum $q$-spin model because it features
$q$...
Abstract: Conditional expectations on von
Neumann algebras have played a significant role in the development
of quantum information theory, and especially the study of quantum
error correction. In quantum gravity, it has been suggested
that...
Abstract: In this talk, I plan to review some
recent works on the study of three-dimensional quantum gravity. In
the first part, I will focus on pure $AdS_3$ gravity and review the
recent results on evaluating the gravity partition function
over...
Abstract: The Nambu-Goto string action can be
related to an integrable deformation of a free theory. The
scattering of excitations on the two-dimensional worldsheet of the
string is then very simple, given by a pure phase. In this talk I
will...
Abstract: We construct compactifications of
type IIB string theory that yield, at leading order in the α ′ α ′
and g s g s expansions, de Sitter vacua of the form envisioned by
Kachru, Kallosh, Linde, and Trivedi. We specify explicit
Calabi-Yau...
