Physics

IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

November 25, 2024 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Abstract: Muon colliders offer a unique path to multi-TeV, high-luminosity lepton collisions. Muon collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 10 TeV or above would offer significant discovery potential where the constituent collision energies exceed...

Princeton University Dark Cosmos Seminar

November 19, 2024 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm

In this talk I will do three things. First, I will outline the conditions under which the interaction rate of inelastic processes with a system consisting of N targets scales as N^2. Second, I will present computations of interaction rates for...

IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

November 18, 2024 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Abstract: Matroids are combinatorial abstractions of the notion of linear independence. They are one of the main objects studied in the current special year in the School of Mathematics. I will talk about a notion of scattering amplitudes for...

IAS Quantum Aspects of Black Holes Group Meeting

November 14, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:00pm

Abstract: I will discuss a gauge invariant "memory" observable on cosmological horizons that controls the existence of (normalizable) de Sitter invariant vacuum states. While most of the discussion will concern free quantum field theories, I will...

IAS Physics Group Meeting

November 13, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:15pm

Abstract: A remarkably simple idea makes it possible to put global positive coordinates on moduli spaces of curves. I will give an update on recent developments in understanding these coordinates and applying them moduli space integrals. Interesting...

IAS Amplitudes Group Meeting

November 12, 2024 | 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Abstract: Continuous Spin Particles (CSPs) arise naturally from Wigner's classification of the unitary representations of the Poincare group. Conversely, defining an interacting (quantum field) theory for these particles is notoriously difficult. In...