2025
Particle Theory Seminar: Building up quantum spacetimes with BCFT tensor networks and symmetric quantum RG. - Yikun Jiang, Northeastern University
1:30 pm MCP 201
Building up quantum spacetimes with BCFT tensor networks and symmetric quantum RG.
Tensor network toy models have been invaluable in illustrating various aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence. But can we construct more realistic tensor networks directly from a CFT and observe the emergence of a higher-dimensional bulk? In this talk, I will present a new step-by-step framework within CFT2 that constructs an exact CFT2 and at the same time AdS3 spacetime tensor network, using “BCFT Legos.” I will illustrate this procedure with explicit examples that exhibit an emergent 3D quantum gravity dual and demonstrate how geometry naturally arises from the BCFT OPE algebra. A key ingredient in this construction is the recent development of generalized global symmetries, which enables a built-in, symmetry-preserving real-space RG flow. This naturally transforms the holographic tensor network into an exact MERA-like structure. Additionally, I will discuss the implications for the factorization puzzle and show how this approach recovers key features of earlier tensor network toy models—those describing wavefunctions on fixed time slices and connected to derivations of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula.
Kadanoff Seminar: Spin impurities in Fermi and Bose systems. - Max Metlitski, MIT
1:30 pm MCP 201
Spin impurities in Fermi and Bose systems.
Special Kadanoff Seminar: Physical Frameworks Featuring Fusion 2-Categories. - Matt Yu, Oxford
12:30 pm MCP 3rd Floor Atrium
Physical Frameworks Featuring Fusion 2-Categories.
Particle Theory Seminar: How (Not) to Probe the Axion-Electron Coupling. - Kevin Zhou, UC Berkeley
1:30 pm MCP 201
How (Not) to Probe the Axion-Electron Coupling.
Particle Theory Seminar: Quantum-corrected Black Hole Entropy and EFT Transitions. - Alberto Castello, UChicago
1:30 pm MCP 201
Quantum-corrected Black Hole Entropy and EFT Transitions.
Particle Theory Seminar: Direct Detection With Magnons. - Tanner Trickle, Fermilab
1:30 pm MCP 201
Direct Detection With Magnons.
Kadanoff Seminar: Finiteness and the Emergence of Dualities. - Damian Van De Heisteeg, Harvard University
1:30 pm MCP 201
Finiteness and the Emergence of Dualities.
Particle Theory Seminar: Stability of superconducting Strings. - Fengwei Yang, University of Florida
1:30 pm MCP 201
Stability of superconducting Strings.
Kadanoff Seminar: Neural Networks and Quantum Field Theory. - Christian Ferko, Northeastern University & IAIFI
1:30 pm MCP 201
Neural Networks and Quantum Field Theory.
Special Kadanoff Seminar: Efficiently observable MIPTs in $Z_2$-symmetric noisy monitored dynamics. - Jake Hauser, UCSB
12:30 pm MCP 3rd Floor Atrium
Efficiently observable MIPTs in $Z_2$-symmetric noisy monitored dynamics.