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SUMMARY:Descending into the Modular Bootstrap
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UID:indico-event-16613@indico.math.cnrs.fr
CONTACT:cecile@ihes.fr
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Jesse Thaler (MIT/IAIFI/IHES/IPhT)\n\nThe modular bo
 otstrap has been a powerful tool for carving out the landscape of allowed 
 two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs).  In this talk\, I descri
 be a complementary approach to standard modular bootstrap bounds: using mo
 dern machine learning strategies to actively search for CFT spectra that y
 ield a valid torus partition function.  Using insights from statistical i
 nference and a custom singular-value-based optimizer\, I present evidence 
 for an obstruction to finding CFTs with small central charge and large spe
 ctral gaps\, and I speculate on what this might imply for the structure of
  the CFT landscape.  Along the way\, I reflect on "centaur" approaches to
  theoretical physics\, where human physicists and artificial intelligence 
 collaborate to explore spaces of theories that would be difficult to navig
 ate alone.\n \nPour être informé des prochains séminaires vous pouvez 
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 n\nhttps://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/16613/
LOCATION:Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons (IHES)
URL:https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/16613/
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