Theoretical Physics Courses and Certifications

The Legacy of Stephen Hawking - Black Holes and the Great Reconciliation

Explore black hole physics and its role in reconciling quantum mechanics with general relativity. Delve into Stephen Hawking's contributions and the future of unified physics theories.

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• 1 hour 10 minutes
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Symmetry and Collective Dynamics - Noether's Theorem and Conservation Laws

Explore Emmy Noether's theorem and its impact on theoretical physics, focusing on symmetry transformations and their role in expressing collective dynamics and conservation laws.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
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Why is Time a One-Way Street?

Explore the paradox of time's arrow with physicist Leonard Susskind, delving into how the past differs from the future and examining current perspectives in physics and cosmology on this intriguing phenomenon.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
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The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality

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Do you like a good detective story? Join a renowned scientist trying to solve nature's ultimate mystery.

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• 12 hours 29 minutes
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Institute for Advanced Study

New Approaches to the Hierarchy Problem I - Nathaniel Craig

Explore innovative approaches to the hierarchy problem in particle physics, focusing on technical and direct naturalness, effective field theory, and their implications for the Standard Model.

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• 1 hour 34 minutes
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Institute for Advanced Study

Lattice Edge Theories for Topological Phases of Matter - Michael Levin

Explore lattice edge theories for topological phases, focusing on finite-dimensional edge theories and their unique properties, including ungappable examples with implications for quantum systems.

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• 1 hour 10 minutes
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Institute for Advanced Study

Celestial Operator Product Expansions and W1+Infinity Symmetry for All Spins - Monica Pate

Explore celestial operator product expansions, w1+infinity symmetry, and their implications for massless particles of all spins in gravitational theories and high-energy physics.

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• 1 hour 9 minutes
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Institute for Advanced Study

Superstring Amplitudes in Genus 0 and Double Copy - Francis Brown

Explore superstring amplitudes, double copy theory, and related mathematical concepts in this advanced physics seminar by Francis Brown from Oxford University.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
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Institute for Advanced Study

Worldsheet Correlators in AdS3 - Lorenz Eberhardt

Explore worldsheet correlators in AdS3 with Lorenz Eberhardt, covering vertex operators, singularities, constraints, and branch coverings in this advanced theoretical physics seminar.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 58 minutes
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Institute for Advanced Study

Some Half-Baked Thoughts About de Sitter Space - Leonard Susskind

Explore de Sitter space holography, static patches, and Boltzmann fluctuations in this advanced theoretical physics seminar by renowned physicist Leonard Susskind, delving into quantum gravity and cosmology.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 29 minutes
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Institute for Advanced Study

N=2* SU(2) Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory and Four-Manifold Invariants - Gregory Moore

Explore supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, four-manifold invariants, and their connections to topology and complex structures in this advanced theoretical physics seminar.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
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• Free Video

Institute for Advanced Study

Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox - Geoff Penington

Explore quantum information in black holes, entanglement wedge reconstruction, and the resolution of the information paradox through advanced theoretical physics concepts.

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• 1 hour 5 minutes
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• Free Video

Institute for Advanced Study

Some Progress on Categorical Local Langlands - Linus Hamann

Exploration of categorical local Langlands correspondence, discussing recent progress, proofs, and implications for number theory and algebraic geometry.

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• 1 hour 6 minutes
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Institute for Advanced Study

Random Matrix Models, 2D Quantum Gravity, and Holography - Part 1 - Clifford Johnson

Explore random matrix models, focusing on the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble and its applications to gravity, holography, and quantum physics. Discover new insights into discrete spectra and non-perturbative information.

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• 1 hour 15 minutes
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Institute for Advanced Study

Covariant Phase Space with Boundaries - Daniel Harlow

Explore covariant phase space with boundaries in field theory, covering key concepts like configuration space, prephase space, and Hamiltonian construction.

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• 1 hour 21 minutes
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