Puxin Lin presented at the UW Physics Student Research Colloquium 2024
Puxin Lin presented his work on black holes at the UW Physics Student Research Colloquium 2024: UW Physics Student Research Colloquium 2024
String theory, Particle Physics, and Cosmology
Puxin Lin presented his work on black holes at the UW Physics Student Research Colloquium 2024: UW Physics Student Research Colloquium 2024
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”.