NYU Physics Courses

To Twist or not Twist in Flatlands - Band Engineering in Van der Waals Heterostructures

Explore twist-controlled van der Waals heterostructures and their role in tailoring electronic properties through moiré patterns in 2D materials engineering.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

New Perspectives on Peculiar Velocities in Cosmology

Explore gravitational dipoles and transverse velocity measurements through CMB analysis, plus advanced density-split statistics for improved cosmological constraints.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves in the Wave-Optics Regime

Explore gravitational wave lensing through wave-optics, covering diffraction, interference effects, and scattering-amplitude approaches to probe small-scale cosmic structures.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Supra-resonant Dynamics and Self-excited Oscillations in Insect Flight

Explore how insects achieve efficient flight through supra-resonant dynamics and self-excited oscillations, revealing evolutionary strategies that optimize energy and control.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

High-Precision Gravitational Scattering

Explore high-precision gravitational scattering techniques with renowned physicist Thibault Damour from IHES in this advanced physics discussion.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Double-Copy Picture of Strings in AdS

Explore the elegant KLT relations connecting open and closed string amplitudes in AdS space, revealing hidden structures between gluons and gravitons beyond flat spacetime.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Where is the KdV Equation? Mapping the Space of Integrable Equations

Explore the KdV equation's role in integrable systems, from soliton solutions to exotic generalizations using 2d CFT methods and parameter space mapping.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Fates of Stars Orbiting Too Close to Massive Black Holes

Explore stellar dynamics near massive black holes, covering tidal disruption, gravitational waves, and connections to recurring transients and galactic center phenomena.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Searching for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries - Gas, Gravity and Gravitational Waves

Explore supermassive black hole binaries, their formation in galactic collisions, orbital evolution through gas accretion, and detection prospects via gravitational waves and surveys.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CP-Violation with Neutrino Disappearance and NuFast

Explore CP violation detection through neutrino disappearance experiments and discover NuFast, a precise technique for calculating oscillation probabilities in matter.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Challenges to the Lambda CDM Cosmology

Explore tensions in Lambda CDM cosmology, from Hubble constant discrepancies to DESI results and inflation's hierarchy problem with Cambridge's George Efstathiou.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Prior on Initial Conditions in Inflation from the Gravitational Path Integral

Explore quantum gravity's connection to inflationary cosmology through complex saddle point geometries and gravitational path integrals with observational implications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dark Matter at Finite Temperature

Explore how dark matter properties change in different astrophysical environments and learn new formalism for calculating finite temperature effects on DM production and detection.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Strings from Almost Nothing - Bootstrapping String Theory from First Principles

Discover how string theory emerges uniquely from first principles using modern amplitudes techniques to bootstrap quantum gravity from fundamental physical constraints.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The ε-Expansion and Boundary/Defect CFTs

Explore advanced techniques in theoretical physics, focusing on epsilon-expansion methods for studying boundary and defect universality classes in O(N) models and critical phenomena.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video