Emergent Patterns in Physics: From Equations to Particles and the Cosmos
Emergent Patterns in Physics: From Equations to Particles and the Cosmos
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 7th March 2025
- Speaker: Andrei Constantin (University of Oxford )
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
This colloquium examines three examples of emergent patterns in physics. First, we investigate the statistical regularities found in the distribution of mathematical operators within the equations of physics, which point towards an underlying structure governing physical laws. Next, we explore how advanced computational techniques, such as neural networks and genetic algorithms, are transforming our grasp of the string landscape, enabling first-principles calculations of the mass hierarchies observed in particle physics. Finally, we turn to cosmology, analyzing a class of models that exhibit late-time anisotropy and provide a redshift–luminosity distance relation consistent with type Ia supernovae data, all without requiring a cosmological constant.
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The Higgs Centre Colloquia are a fortnightly series of talks aimed at a wide-range of topical Theoretical Physics issues..