Other Stanford Events

Thesis Defense

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Location

Campus, PAB 102/103

Speaker
Guillem Megias Homar (KIPAC) In Person and zoom

Ph.D. Candidate: Guillem Megias i Homar
Research Advisor: Steve Kahn

SITP Wine and Cheese Seminar: Checking in on Thermal Electroweak Dark Matter

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Location

Campus, Varian 312

Speaker
Linda Xu (KIPAC)

The paradigm of minimal electroweak dark matter remains one of our simplest and best-studied theories of particle DM; most of these scenarios are also as of yet entirely experimentally unprobed. In this talk, I discuss recent and ongoing progress on searching for this class of WIMPs from the axis of indirect detection.

SITP Seminar: Entropy in a Coherent Universe: Quantum Information Flows in the Cosmic SuperWeb

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Location

Campus, Varian 355

Speaker
Dick Bond (CITA, University of Toronto) In Person

von Neumann of (thermal) quantum entropy fame purportedly responded to Shannon asking what his novel classical information content measure should be called: paraphrasing, entropy, nobody understands it anyway. Nowadays thermal entropy, gravitational entropy and information entropy have merged as ideas, and expanded to encompass phase info as well as counting info, into quantum information aka quantum cosmology. Entropic development and transport through all of the great cosmic epochs of instability accompanying transitions of phase is a unifying story of the Universe.