The Ideas in Science lunch seminar series aims to bring together graduate students in physics to bridge the gaps of knowledge between our different subfields. The talks are based on the general methods used in your work instead of a specific research application.
The ‘idea’ is to bring you and your fellow peers from all fields of physics together to share your insights and expertise on the tools, methods and ideas you use in science. The talks are intended to be in a casual setting; fun, short and easily accessible to even a graduate student from an orthogonal subfield. We meet for lunch (BYOF) together and proceed to the talk after.
We look forward to seeing you join us, either as an audience member or as one of the speakers below:
Phase transitions are relatively common occurrences in real life. But is there a way to categorize or describe them rigorously? This talk will introduce some machinery to describe them, and will explore some universal properties based on such a categorization.
A brief introduction to tensors, their operations, computations, and applications. We will explore multiple examples of tensor networks from quantum mechanics and machine learning, with a focus on the big-picture details and relations to other topics in science.
What does entropy mean to you? Is it randomness? Noise? Perhaps an image of a messy room? In this talk, we build up the notion of entropy through a game of guesses. Together, we'll see what entropy looks like through the lens of information theory.
