Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies DIAS Courses

UV-Completing the Universe with Quadratic Gravity - Black Holes, The Big Bang, and Beyond

Explore how quadratic gravity provides UV completion for spacetime at black hole cores and the Big Bang, with potential observational consequences for high-energy phenomena.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

An Introduction to Quantum Computing

Discover quantum computing fundamentals, exploring quantum circuits and the one-way model, plus translation challenges between different computational approaches in this comprehensive introduction.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Ghosts, Phantoms, and Monsters in the Battle of the Big Bang

Explore cosmic mysteries through Halloween-themed cosmology, uncovering dark matter, phantom energy, and black holes that reshape our understanding of the universe's origins and fate.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Historian at Work in Lebor Gabála - 2025 SCS Statutory Public Lecture

Explore how medieval Irish historians crafted the Lebor Gabála, examining their methods and motivations in this scholarly analysis by Prof Gregory Toner.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Lorentzian Quasicrystals and the Irrationality of Spacetime

Explore Lorentzian spacetime quasicrystals using cut-and-project methods, examining aperiodic structures that could address hierarchy problems and cosmological constants in quantum gravity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Entropies for Gravitational Systems from Simplicial Lorentzian Path Integrals

Explore how gravitational entropies are computed using Lorentzian path integrals, avoiding Euclidean method problems and providing insights into black hole information paradox solutions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Entanglement Transitions and Replica Tricks

Explore measurement-induced quantum dynamics and entanglement transitions using replica density matrices to overcome postselection challenges in stochastic evolution.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Unification of Conformal and Fuzzy Gravities with Internal Interactions

Explore the unification of conformal and fuzzy gravities through gauge theory, examining tangent groups, noncommutative geometry, and internal interactions in four dimensions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

A Resource Theoretical Unification of Mpemba Effects - Classical and Quantum

Explore how resource theories unify classical thermal and quantum symmetry-restoring Mpemba effects, revealing connections between seemingly disparate relaxation phenomena.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Metrological Symmetries in Singular Quantum Multi-Parameter Estimation

Explore quantum sensing foundations through Cramér-Rao formalism, examining singularities in quantum Fisher information matrices and metrological symmetries in multi-parameter estimation.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Constraints and Aperiodicity in Physics - Hamiltonian Cycles and Quantum Dimer Models

Explore how local constraints create correlations in aperiodic tilings, solving Hamiltonian cycles, quantum dimer models, and developing ML approaches for non-periodic networks.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Diagnosing Chaos with Projected Ensembles of Process Tensors

Explore quantum chaos diagnosis using projected process tensor ensembles to distinguish chaotic from integrable dynamics through spatiotemporal entanglement analysis.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Non-Hermitian Numerical Renormalization Group - Solution of the Non-Hermitian Kondo Model

Explore non-Hermitian quantum systems through numerical renormalization group methods applied to the Kondo model, uncovering phase diagrams in strongly correlated systems.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Exploring Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity on the Lattice

Explore asymptotically safe quantum gravity using lattice methods and Euclidean dynamical triangulations to probe geometries and investigate scale-dependent cosmological constants.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Modular Hamiltonians, Relative Entropy and the Entropy-Area Law in de Sitter Spacetime

Explore modular Hamiltonians and relative entropy in quantum field theory, focusing on de Sitter spacetime applications and entropy-area law derivations.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video