Congratulations to Puxin Lin @uwmadphysics.bsky.social for successfully passing the Prelim (PhD candidacy) exam!

Job🚨: AI & theoretical physics postdoc jointly with @UWMadPhysics & @Perimeter:
* Agentic approaches & test-time scaling methods
* Symbolic verification & tool usage
* LLMs & evolutionary algorithms
* Fine-tuning & RL
* benchmarks tpbench.org
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31141

Check out this project from DSI Affiliate @garyshiu.bsky.social!

Excited to share with you an exciting project with Jacky Yip @uwmadphysics.bsky.social and Charles Arnal and Francois Charton at Meta where we develop a transformer model to automate the generation of Calabi-Yau manifolds, extra dimensional spaces in string theory: arxiv.org/abs/2507.03732

Yes, I talked about brains rather than branes :) this time at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences:
ithems.riken.jp/en We used topology to study brain networks:

An action packed week in Japan: KEK workshop on Topological Analysis in Data Science: www.kek.jp/ja/research/... a seminar on the weak gravity conjecture: www.kek.jp/en/research/... and finally a talk on “Topology and Brain Science”: ithems.riken.jp/en @uwmadphysics.bsky.social

Visiting @nordita.org for 2 days giving a colloquium and a seminar. This is how a physics institute should look like: a place to cultivate deep thoughts without forgetting fun! @uwmadphysics.bsky.social

Congratulations to my undergraduate advisee Qing (Helena) Huang for winning the Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship! While her major is in Statistics, Data Science and Information Science, her award winning work with me is deeply rooted in @uwmadphysics.bsky.social

Generalized symmetry constraints on deformed 4d (S)CFTs - Craig Lawrie, DESY YouTube video by UW-Madison HEP Theory and Cosmology Seminar

Great to have Craig Lawrie fron DESY visiting us @uwmadphysics.bsky.social this week. His talk on “Generalized symmetry constraints on deformed 4d (S)CFTs is now on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/ALKNwSCkhqg?si…

Videos for the UW-Madison HEP Theory and Cosmology Seminar @uwmadphysics.bsky.social: physics.wisc.edu/events/?name... are now on YouTube. You can find the first few talks this year by Asher Berlin, Alberto Castellano, and Gordon Krnjaic on my playlist: youtube.com/@gary_shiu

Great to have Sash Sarangi (EMAlpha) visiting
@uwmadphysics.bsky.social for a couple of days and giving an interesting seminar on "Thinking Fast and Slow". The video recording of his talk is now on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=3WAa... Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@Gary_Shiu

Formulating the Weak Gravity Conjecture in AdS Space We propose a version of the Weak Gravity Conjecture that applies to AdS spacetime. We find that the condition on the charge-to-mass ratio of a charged particle in AdS$_D$ spacetime is corrected compar...

New paper alert! With Puxin Lin and Alessandro Mininno
@uwmadphysics.bsky.social we formulate the Weak Gravity Conjecture in Anti de Sitter Space: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05862 Interesting plot twist about BPS states and the Weak Gravity Conjecture!

Great to have Zeeshan Ahmed (SLAC) giving our @uwmadphysics.bsky.social colloquium today on “Investigating cosmic origin and evolution with the oldest photons”.

It’s great to have Kendrick Smith from @perimeterinstitute.ca telling us about “Fast Radio Bursts with Chime” at our @uwmadphysics.bsky.social Colloquium.

La teoría de cuerdas no ha muerto es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/teor%C3%ADa-...

In case you missed arxiv.org/abs/2412.15405 which came out right before the winter holidays: Building on foundational work with Jacky Yip and Adam Rouhiainen
@uwmadphysics.bsky.social: arxiv.org/abs/2308.02636 we showed how to Machine Learn cosmological parameters from topological statistics.

Today I will be talking about “The String Genome Project” based on work of my group @uwmadphysics.bsky.social in the beautiful campus of the University of Tokyo.

I am thrilled to be talking about “The String Genome Project” at the ITS Symposium on “The Geometry and Phenomenology of String Compactifications” in NYC tomorrow: itsatcuny.org/calendar/202... based on a body of work with my group @uwmadphysics.bsky.social. A full day of talks ahead!

If you are attending the Machine Learning and Physical Sciences workshop at #NeurIPS2024 #ml4ps2024, check out Haotian Cao's poster @uwmadphysics.bsky.social based on his paper with
@garrettmerz.bsky.social @kylecranmer.bsky.social
@uwdsi.bsky.social and me. ml4physicalsciences.github.io/2024/

Proud of my student Puxin Lin @uwmadphysics.bsky.social
who delivered a great talk based on our paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.02197 at the Worldline Seminars: sites.google.com/view/worldli... He showed great poise in front of the world experts of the worldline formalism!

Congratulations to Jacky Yip @uwmadphysics.bsky.social for passing the prelim exam: www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=9...

El modelo estándar en la teoría de cuerdas - La Ciencia de la Mula Francis La gran crítica a la teoría de cuerdas es que no es una teoría predictiva. Nuestro universo no contiene cuerdas, luego está en un estado de vacío para la teoría […]

For Spanish readers interested in Particle Physics from String Theory, check this out: francis.naukas.com/2024/07/24/e... Read more about the subject here: arxiv.org/abs/2401.01939

Virtual open house for underrepresented Physics-PhD applicants @uwmadphysics.bsky.social at 10-11am US central time. Here is the zoom link: uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

For those applying for postdocs in HEP theory, please consider joining us @uwmadphysics.bsky.social : academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28467

Count me in!

Looking forward to the Physics Department Colloquium @uwmadphysics.bsky.social on "The DNA of Particle Scattering" by Lance Dixon (SLAC) today at 3:30pm: physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=8821 Hidden symmetries of quantum scattering may be revealed by machine learning models staring at theoretical data.

@uwmadphysics.bsky.social @kylecranmer.bsky.social

I am please to announce a seminar by Francois Charton (Meta) on “AI for the Working Mathematician” on Nov. 20 at 4pm in Room 1435 of Chemistry at UW-Madison:

dsi.wisc.edu/2024/11/12/a...

This kicks off a new "AI for Science Seminar Series” organized in partnership with the Data Science Institute.

It’s a pleasure speaking at the KEK cosmology workshop: conference-indico.kek.jp/event/250/time… . Interesting wall art: note that M Theory/Superstring Theory is at the very top. Finally an institute that gets the priority right.

It’s a pleasure coming back to the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics for a workshop. Flavio Tonioni and I are giving back-to-back talks on our trilogy with Hung Tran: arxiv.org/abs/2303.03418 arxiv.org/abs/2306.07327 and arxiv.org/abs/2312.06772