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The Future of Numerical Relativity: Gravitational Memory, BMS Frames, and More
As was realized by Bondi, Metzner, van der Burg, and Sachs (BMS), the symmetry group of asymptotic infinity is not the Poincaré group, but an infinite-dimensional group called the BMS...
Nov 17, 2022
On the fate of the LR instability
Abstract and Zoom Link: https://pitp.zoom.us/j/91762985902?pwd=djhwYVdsQ25GVVBRVTlwSkQvaDJ4Zz09
Oct 18, 2022
: From black holes to the Big Bang: astrophysics and cosmology with gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts
The growing catalog of gravitational-wave signals from compact object mergers has allowed us to study the properties of black holes and neutron stars more precisely than ever before and has...
Oct 27, 2022
Perspectives on Matter Effects in GW170817
The detection of coalescing neutron stars via gravitational waves (GW170817) has revolutionized our understanding of the equation of state at supranuclear densities. The equation of state determines how neutron stars...
Oct 17, 2019
Integrable line defects and 4d Chern-Simons theory
I discuss an application of a recent construction of 2d integrable field theories from 4d Chern-Simons theory by Costello and Yamazaki. After a review of the construction, I consider integrable...
Oct 17, 2019
Equivariant localization and Atiyah-Segal completion for Hochschild and cyclic homology
There is a close relationship between derived loop spaces, a geometric object, and Hochschild homology, a categorical invariant, made possible by derived algebraic geometry, thus allowing for both intuitive insights...
Oct 24, 2019
Real-time dynamics of plasma balls in a confining background
Black holes in the background of the AdS soliton are, according to the gauge/gravity correspondence, dual to droplets of deconfined plasma surrounded by a confining vacuum. In this talk I...
Oct 31, 2019
3D Mirror Symmetry and HOMFLY-PT Homology
A recent construction of HOMFLY-PT knot homology by Oblomkov-Rozansky has its physical origin in “B-twisted” 3D N=4 gauge theory, with adjoint and fundamental matter. Mathematically, the construction uses certain categories...
Oct 31, 2019
Binary black hole simulations: from supercomputers to your laptop
Simulations that numerically solve Einstein's equations are the only means to accurately predict the outcome of the merger of two black holes. The most important outputs from these simulations are...
Nov 07, 2019
Bridgeland stability conditions relative to a boundary
In this talk I will present a construction of relative Bridgeland stability conditions that appeared in my work on stability of topological Fukaya categories of surfaces. This construction gives a...
Nov 07, 2019