The entanglement membrane in 2d CFT: reflected entropy, RG flow, and information velocity
Jiang, H Mezei, M Virrueta, J Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2025 issue 6 (12 Jun 2025)
Low-depth phase oracle using a parallel piecewise circuit
Sun, Z Boyd, G Cai, Z Jnane, H Koczor, B Meister, R Minko, R Pring, B Benjamin, S Stamatopoulos, N Physical Review A volume 111 issue 6 062420 (16 Jun 2025)
Tue, 04 Nov 2025
13:00
L2

Anomalies of Defect Parameter Spaces and a Spin-Flux Duality

Brandon Rayhaun
(IAS)
Abstract

I will explain how the irreversibility of the renormalization group together with anomalies, including anomalies in the space of coupling constants, can be used to constrain the IR phases of defects in familiar quantum field theories. As an example, I will use these techniques to provide evidence for a conjectural "spin-flux duality" which describes how certain line operators are mapped across particle/vortex duality in 2+1d.

FS-GNN: Improving fairness in graph neural networks via joint sparsification
Zhao, J Huang, T Liu, S Yin, J Pei, Y Fang, M Pechenizkiy, M Neurocomputing 130641 (Jun 2025)
Wed, 06 Aug 2025
17:00
Lecture Theatre 1

From Theorems to Serums, From Cryptography to Cosmology … and The Simpsons - Simon Singh

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Join science writer Simon Singh on a whistle-stop tour through two decades of his bestselling books. 'Fermat’s Last Theorem' looks at one of the biggest mathematical puzzles of the millennium; 'The Code Book' shares the secrets of cryptology; 'Big Bang' explores the history of cosmology; 'Trick or Treatment' asks some hard questions about alternative medicine; and 'The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets' explains how TV writers, throughout the show’s 35-year history, have smuggled in mathematical jokes.

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The Vicky Neale Public Lectures are a partnership between the Clay Mathematics Institute, PROMYS and Oxford Mathematics. The Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures are generously supported by XTX Markets.

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Kate has been awarded a second prize in the IMA Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis for her research paper and presentation of the paper. She was one of six finalists out of a large number of submissions. 

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