Gregory Loges has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Black Holes and Branes in the Landscape”. Congratulations, Dr. Loges! He will be joining the KEK Theory Center https://www2.kek.jp/theory-center/theory_e/research-group/ in Japan as a postdoc in the coming September.

Paper of Gregory with Gary on “Breeding Realistic D-brane Models” submitted: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08391.

Gary presented this work at the String Data 2021 Conference: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1065458/. YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9GX4UwKZlE.

Our paper on “Probing the Structure of String Theory Vacua with Genetic Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning”:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11466

was accepted by NeurIPS 2021 Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences

https://ml4physicalsciences.github.io/2021/

Gregory Loges presented an invited talk on “Brane Breeding” at the Seminar Series on String Phenomenology: https://sites.google.com/view/string-pheno-seminars/ (YouTube video).

At the “Applications of Quantum Information in QFT and Cosmology”:  https://sites.google.com/view/qiinqftandcosmo/, Lars Aalsma was an invited panelist at the Discussion Session, and Gary Shiu presented an invited talk on “Quantum Information in de Sitter Space”.

 

Read the full article at: https://alumni.cuhk.edu.hk/en/magazine/categories/202109

Gary and Gregory will be presenting at the XXVIII International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2021): https://indico.cern.ch/event/875077/

In US Central Time:

“Microscopic Description of Brane Gauginos”, Gary Shiu, August 23, 9:35-10:15pm.

“A New Spin on the Weak Gravity Conjecture”, Gregory Loges, August 27, 10:15-10:35 am.

“Quantum Gravity and the Swampland”, Gary Shiu, August 27, 7:25-7:50pm.

Video of talk at the 20-th String Phenomenology Conference is posted on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOdhW8kYD2U