12 Podcast Episodes
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
Majorana fermions are spatially localized superpositions of electron and hole excitations in the middle of a superconduc... Read more
12 Jul 2023
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1hr 8mins
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
To illuminate how electroweak symmetry breaking shapes the physical world, we investigate what the world would be like i... Read more
12 Jul 2023
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1hr 17mins
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
In this talk I will describe the light-front formulation of maxi- mally supersymmetric theories. This is a formalism whe... Read more
12 Jul 2023
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1hr 10mins
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
Based on a calculation of the shear viscosity η and the entropy density s of certain strongly coupled field theories via... Read more
12 Jul 2023
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1hr 14mins
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
The "Inverse Ising Problem" refers to finding the parameters (the Jij's and the hi's) in an Ising model given the first ... Read more
12 Jul 2023
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1hr 3mins
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
The next generation of surveys, e.g. the Dark Energy Survey, PanSTARRS, LSST, Euclid and others, aim to study the nature... Read more
12 Jul 2023
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1hr 9mins
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
A network of ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors (LIGO/VIRGO/GEO/...) is currently taking data nea... Read more
12 Jul 2023
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1hr 15mins
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
Arnold Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium
In this talk I present a simple derivation of an old result of Kochen and Specker, which is apparently unrelated to the ... Read more
12 Jul 2023
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1hr 6mins
Arnold Sommerfeld, un génie de la poisse
Arnold Sommerfeld, un génie de la poisse
Arnold Sommerfeld était un génie malchanceux. En dehors du monde scientifique, il est connu essentiellement pour avoir b... Read more
2 Sep 2021
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5mins
Suman Seth, “Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926” (MIT Press, 2010)
Suman Seth, “Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926” (MIT Press, 2010)
Though Einstein, Planck, and Pauli have become household names in the history of science, the work of Arnold Sommerfeld ... Read more
24 Feb 2012
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1hr 21mins