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In science, new advances and insights often emerge from the confluence of different ideas coming from what appeared to be disconnected research areas. The theme of my talk will review an ongoing collision between the three topics listed in my title which over the last decade has generated a variety…

Fuzzy sphere models conjecturally realize 3d CFTs in small systems of spinful fermions, but why they work so well is still not fully understood. Their Hamiltonians are built from electron density operators projected to the lowest Landau level. In this talk I will discuss the algebra generated by…

Quantum information theory is the study of the how features of quantum mechanics can be used to do useful `information processing' tasks - things like run a computation, communicate, or hide information. While this theory was developed for these practical goals, it also finds many applications in…

Speaker bio: Dr Katherine (Katie) Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist who studies a range of questions in cosmology, the study of the universe from beginning to end. She currently holds the position of Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical…

Fermi surfaces have a number of fascinating properties, including a continuum of gapless excitations, a landscape of possible collective modes, universal super-area law entanglement, and relevant deformations that can produce non-Fermi liquid quantum critical metals. Their extreme gaplessness makes…

Public talk about Jay's art installation in Atrium at PI and Indigenous artwork more broadly.