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Events Archive 2025

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Diffractive Cross Sections with Soft Collinear Effective TheoryIain STEWART

In this talk I provide some of the key mathematical ingredients of the effective field theory formalism which is used to describe diffractive cross sections. This is intended as a deeper dive into the theoretical setup that leads to the final result presented in my colloquium. In particular I discuss ...
Lecture Theatre A, James Clerk Maxwell Building

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Classical Gravity from Quantum FieldsDonal O'CONNELL

Theoretical research on gravitational waveforms from compact binary inspirals (of the kind observed for example at LIGO) has been reinvigorated in recent years by an influx of ideas and techniques from collider physics, especially techniques used to understand the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider. I will explain the ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Black Mirrors: CPT-Symmetric Alternatives to Black HolesKostas TZANAVARIS

Einstein's equations imply that a gravitationally collapsed object forms an event horizon. But what lies on the other side of this horizon? In this talk, we question the reality of the conventional solution (the black hole), and point out another, topologically distinct solution: the black mirror. In the black ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Why you shouldn’t stress over boundary dualsVijay NENMELI

Despite its age and numerous successes, the principle of holography is often misconstrued either as a mere offshoot of string theory or as being based on a series of mysterious identifications of black hole physics with thermodynamics. In particular, any intuition one could hope to gain from these perspectives is ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Topological Nucleons: The Skyrme Effective Field Theory for Low-Energy QCDAndrés ANADÓN

This talk provides insight into how topological solitons emerge within the framework of nuclear physics. The lack of understanding how the properties of baryons and nuclei arise from first principles in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) has led to the development of various Effective Field Theories (EFTs). Among these, the Skyrme theory ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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The Seven Elementary Catastrophes and Physical ApplicationsBenjamin HERTZSCH

In this seminar, I will give an introduction to catastrophe theory and derive Thom’s “seven elementary catastrophes” in the physicist’s (rather than mathematician’s) language. Starting from critical points and structural stability, I will derive the characteristic geometries of the caustics and discuss how they arise in various ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Subtleties in decoherence and squeezing of cosmological perturbationsChon MAN SOU

We revisit the cosmological perturbations in minimal single-field inflation, focusing on subtleties arising from total time derivatives (boundary terms) in their action and the corresponding slow-roll unsuppressed phase in the wave functional. While these total derivatives do not contribute to field correlators, they can significantly influence processes related to momentum-space ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Why Love vanishes in a Black Hole?Bill ATKINS

In this talk I seek to present the mystery of vanishing Love in a Black Hole. It is well-known that Black Holes exhibit no Tidal response - characterised by their 'Love Numbers' - however to date there remains no completely satisfying explanation as to why. This talk will largely be pedagogical, focusing ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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The Regge asymptotics of 2 -> N scattering in QCD and gravity: from amplitudes to shockwave collisionsRaju VENUGOPALAN

Abstract: We discuss the structure of 2-> N scattering in QCD and gravity in high energy Regge asymptotics and outline remarkable similarities between the two. In the QCD case, the rapid growth of the N-gluon amplitude, described by the BFKL equation, leads to the emergence of nonperturbative classical lumps that ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Varieties of four-dimensional gauge theoriesKhoi LE NGUYEN NGUYEN

Given a gauge Lie algebra, it is natural to seek representations for four-dimensional spacetime fermions that are anomaly-free and chiral. Even for irreducible representations, where the problem reduces to studying su(n) for n≥3, solutions seem to be few and far between: a trial-and-error scan by Eichten, Kang and ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB