Wormhole fragmentation and the axion Weak Gravity Conjecture
New paper of Puxin Lin and Gary Shiu: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32063
String theory, Particle Physics, and Cosmology
New paper of Puxin Lin and Gary Shiu: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32063
New paper with Jonathan Heckman, Shani Meynet, and Alessandro Mininno: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28628 Github repository: https://github.com/alexmininno/GNN-Pathfinders
Our new paper appeared on the arXiv yesterday: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00078 where we developed an AI explorer to perform deep searches for string vacua with realistic particle physics spectra. The code and tools necessary to reproduce our findings are available at Github: https://github.com/alexmininno/LB-Explorer
AICY – an AI enabled Calabi-Yau repository has now gone live: https://aicy.physics.wisc.edu This is an effort to leverage AI to tackle the string theory landscape at scale.
Puxin Lin is presenting a short talk on “Thermodynamics of de Sitter black holes from an observer perspective” at the Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Michigan: https://indico.global/event/16359/contributions/145405/ based on recent work: https://inspirehep.net/literature/3080454
Congratulations to Puxin Lin for successfully passing the Prelim (PhD Candidacy) Exam!
Jacky Yip will present an invited talk at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2026 in Washington DC: https://meetings.ams.org/math/jmm2026/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/53519 based on recent work: https://inspirehep.net/literature/2942944
Check out our new paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09852 where we introduced the PNG-pmwd Suite — a collection of 22,410 halo catalogs developed to support data-driven analyses of large-scale structure formation and the impact of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG). Topological data analysis together with machine learning can unlock new ways to squeeze out early Universe signals beyond traditional n-point …
New paper with Puxin Lin and Alessandro Mininno: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21809
Gary Shiu and Flavio Tonioni talked about “Searching for string-theoretic dark energy” at the Swampland Seminar Series on October 21, 2025: https://sites.google.com/view/swamplandseminars/list-of-seminars