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DIAS receives funding for new ‘SALI’ Senior Professorship in Physics

DIAS is celebrating an excellent start to 2020, with receipt of funding for a new Senior Professorship in Physics. The announcement was made Friday 03 January by Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor, TD. This… Read More

Thursday 28th November: Orthogonality Catastrophe as a Consequence of the Quantum Speed Limit

Title: Orthogonality Catastrophe as a Consequence of the Quantum Speed Limit Speaker: Dr. Steve Campbell (UCD) Abstract: A remarkable feature of quantum many-body systems is the orthogonality catastrophe which describes their extensively growing sensitivity to local perturbations and… Read More

Thursday 21st November : Light Hadron Spectrum from a Yang-Mills Matrix Model

Title: Light Hadron Spectrum from a Yang-Mills Matrix Model Speaker: Mahul Pandey (DIAS) Abstract: The SU(3) Yang-Mills matrix model coupled to fundamental fermions is an approximation of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) on a 3-sphere of radius R. The spectrum… Read More

Friday 15th November : Affine Yangian & quantum toroidal algebra — relation with integrability & application to AGT conjecture

Title: Affine Yangian & quantum toroidal algebra — relation with integrability & application to AGT conjecture Speaker: Yutaka Matsuo (University of Tokyo) Abstract: In this talk, I first review the role of affine Yangian (AY) to prove AGT… Read More

Wednesday 13th November : On Exceptional Periodicity and Magic Star Algebras

Title: On Exceptional Periodicity and Magic Star Algebras Speaker: Alessio Marrani (Enrico Fermi Center, Rome & Univ. of Padova) Abstract: We introduce and discuss the novel mathematical framework of Exceptional Periodicity and Magic Star Algebras, and highlight its… Read More

Nobel Prize in Physics for 2019 Announced

This year’s Nobel prize in physics was announced! The prize was split between two different ways of studying our Universe. James Peebles was awarded half of the price for his theoretical work in physical cosmology. His ground-breaking work… Read More

Tuesday 1st October : Programmable quantum matter in semiconductor electronics

Title: Programmable quantum matter in semiconductor electronics Speaker: Krzysztof Pomorski (University College Dublin) Abstract: Rapid developments in semiconductor electronics allows achieving the transistors with short channels and it opens the new epoch allowing for design of devices working… Read More

Tuesday 17th September : Anyonic (or Symmetric) Tensor Network States

Title: Anyonic (or Symmetric) Tensor Network States Speaker: Babatunde Ayeni (Maynooth University) Abstract: The focus of my talk would be on a broad class of tensor networks (TN) with a generic type of quantum symmetry: anyonic symmetry. This… Read More

Thursday 12th September : Dissipative Phase Transition in the Quantum Rabi Model with a Structured Environment

Title: Dissipative Phase Transition in the Quantum Rabi Model with a Structured Environment Speaker: Mark Mitchison (Trinity College Dublin) Abstract: I will introduce the super-radiantquantum phase transition in the Rabi model and its dissipative generalisation [1,2]. I will… Read More

Tuesday 10th September : Large Deviation Principles for Bosonic Random Permutations

Title: Large Deviation Principles for Bosonic Random Permutations Speaker: Matthew Dickson (University of Warwick) Abstract: Bosons are quantum particles whose collective wave-functions are symmetricunder the transposition of particles. By using the Feynman-Kac formulae,boson gases can be described by… Read More