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The proton size, the fine-structure constant and the electron electric dipole moment
Fundamental physics (including physics beyond the Standard Model) can be tested using table-top precision measurements. The talk will describe measurements of the size of the proton, the fine-structure constant and...
Jan 22, 2020
Towards inclusion of biology in cosmology
Cosmologists wish to explain how our universe, in all its complexity, could ever have come about. This is the problem of initial conditions and the first step towards its solution...
Jan 28, 2020
Standard Model Meets Gravity: Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Inflation
We propose a model for combining the Standard Model (SM) with gravity. It relies on a non-minimal coupling of the Higgs field to the Ricci scalar and on the Palatini...
Jan 28, 2020
Meta-Learning Algorithms and their Applications to Quantum Computing
Meta-learning involves learning mathematical devices using problem instances as training data. In this talk, we first describe recent meta-learning approaches involving the learning of objects such as: initial weights, parameterized...
Jan 28, 2020
Color Confinement, Bose-Einstein Condensation and Holographic Emergent Space
We propose a unified manner of understanding two important phenomena: color confinement in large-N gauge theory, and Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). We do this by clarifying the relation between the standard...
Jan 28, 2020
Quantum Computational Supremacy and Its Applications
Last fall, a team at Google announced the first-ever demonstration of "quantum computational supremacy"---that is, a clear quantum speedup over a classical computer for some task---using a 53-qubit programmable superconducting...
Jan 29, 2020
The Necromancy-Hardness of the Schrödinger's Cat Experiment
Motivated by puzzles in quantum gravity AdS/CFT, Lenny Susskind posed the following question: supposing one had the technological ability to distinguish a macroscopic superposition of two given states |v> and...
Jan 29, 2020
Multichannel Kondo Anyons for topological Quantum Computation
I propose [1] to use the residual anyons of overscreened Kondo physics for quantum computation. A superconducting proximity gap of Δ
Jan 30, 2020
Aspect of Information in Classical and Quantum Neural Networks
I’ll talk about two independent works on classical and quantum neural networks connected by information theory. In the first part of the talk, I’ll treat sequence models as one-dimensional classical...
Feb 03, 2020