Tue, 05 Feb 2019
12:00
L4

Unitarity bounds on charged/neutral state mass ratio.

Dr Congkao Wen
(QMUL)
Abstract

I will talk about the implications of UV completion of quantum gravity on the low energy spectrums. I will introduce the constraints on low-energy effective theory due to unitarity and analyticity of scattering amplitudes, in particular an infinite set of new unitarity constraints on the forward-limit limit of four-point scattering amplitudes due to the work of Arkani-Hamed et al. In three dimensions, we find the constraints imply that light states with charge-to-mass ratio z greater than 1 can only be consistent if there exists other light states, preferably neutral. Applied to the 3D Standard Model like spectrum, where the low energy couplings are dominated by the electron with z \sim 10^22, this provides a novel understanding of the need for light neutrinos.

Fri, 08 Feb 2019

12:00 - 13:00
L5

An algebraic approach to Harder-Narasimhan filtrations

Hippolito Treffinger
Abstract

Given a stability condition defined over a category, every object in this category
is filtered by some distinguished objects called semistables. This
filtration, that is unique up-to-isomorphism, is know as the
 Harder-Narasimhan filtration.
One less studied property of stability conditions, when defined over an
 abelian category, is the fact that each of them induce a chain of torsion
classes that is naturally indexed.
 In this talk we will study arbitrary indexed chain of torsion classes. Our
first result states that every indexed chain of torsion classes induce a
 Harder-Narasimhan filtration. Following ideas from Bridgeland we
 show that the set of all indexed chains of torsion classes satisfying a mild 
 technical condition forms a topological space. If time we
 will characterise the neighbourhood or some distinguished points. 

DPhil Alexander Bradley in a 3-minute thesis competition explains his research.
Oxford Mathematicians Dominic Vella and Finn Box together with colleague Alfonso Castrejón-Pita from Engineering Science in Oxford and Maxime Inizan from MIT have won the annual video competition run by the UK Fluids Network. Here they describe their work and the film.
Professor Dominic Vella and colleagues won the annual video competition run by the UK Fluids Network. Here they describe their work and the film.
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