Congratulations to Jacky Yip for winning the 2023 Alan & Arline Paul Award! The list of 2023 Award Winners can be found here: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/department/awards/2022-23-scholarship-and-awards/
Our paper on “Learning from Topology: Cosmological Parameter Estimation from the Large-scale Structure” was accepted after peer-review at the 1st workshop on Synergy of Scientific and Machine Learning Modeling, ICML, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. July, 2023: https://syns-ml.github.io/2023/contributions/ The arXiv version can be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02636
Gary’s profile is up on Faces of Data Science @UW: https://datascience.wisc.edu/staff/shiu-gary/
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”.
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, …