Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics

Active matter has emerged as a field with strong ties to non-equilibrium soft condensed matter and biological physics. Successes of the field include describing the dynamics of motile microbes and flocks of birds, defect self-propulsion in liquid crystals, wound healing and tissue fluidization, modeling of colony growth, and much more ...

The existence of dark matter, which constitutes 85% of the matter density and 26% of the total energy density, is clearly demonstrated by cosmological observations of the Universe. And yet, very little is known about the nature of dark matter. The observations support the ‘cold dark matter’ (CDM) paradigm, in ...

Monte Carlo sampling is a ubiquitous method for numerically estimating high-dimensional integrals. Unfortunately, standard methods for Monte Carlo sampling sometimes become highly inefficient for certain problems, for example in important limits of lattice QCD simulations that are used to study the Standard Model. I will discuss my ongoing work to ...

yt is a community-driven Python package for analyzing and visualizing complex spatial data. Since 2007, the yt package has expanded from supporting just a single astrophysical simulation data format to more than three dozen formats across several domains, including astronomy, seismology, nuclear engineering, molecular dynamics, oceanography, and satellite imaging. This ...