NYU Physics Courses

Broken Higher-Form Symmetries in Particle Physics: Applications and Implications

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Explore groundbreaking applications of generalized symmetries in particle physics, focusing on extra-dimensional axions and baryon number violation, with implications for astrophysics and cosmology.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 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

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

The Wide-Angle View of Dark Matter in Nearby Galaxies

Explore how Gaia's detailed Milky Way observations challenge traditional galaxy models and reveal new insights into dark matter through wide-angle studies of nearby galaxies.

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

Opportunities for Neutrino Physics at a Future Muon Collider

Explore neutrino physics opportunities at future muon colliders, from intense decay beams to parton distribution functions, bridging current research with energy-frontier goals.

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

How to Get an Interacting Conformal Line Defect for Free Theories

Explore how interacting conformal line defects can exist in free quantum field theories when inversion symmetry breaks, featuring scalar fields and Yukawa interactions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Megavolcanoes, Pyrotornadoes, and Hurricanes - How Extreme Storms Can Influence Climate

Explore how extreme storms like hurricanes and volcanic plumes inject water vapor into the stratosphere, potentially creating climate feedback loops through high-resolution simulations.

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

A New Approach to Small Black Holes in String Theory

Discover a novel approach to studying small black holes in string theory using affine SU(2) symmetry and effective field theory methods near the Hagedorn temperature.

• YouTube
• 55 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

Soft Charges and Energy-Energy Correlators in the 'in-in' Formalism

Explore soft charges and energy-energy correlators using the 'in-in' formalism in this advanced high energy physics discussion by Sruthi Narayanan from Perimeter Institute.

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

Using Galaxies and Machine Learning to Learn About Dark Energy with LSST

Discover how machine learning enhances photometric redshift estimates for LSST's dark energy research, addressing challenges in weak lensing and large-scale structure cosmology.

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

Berry Phase of Boundary Conditions

Explore the mathematical structure of conformal boundary conditions in 2D quantum field theories and discover a "higher" Berry phase generalization with applications to anomaly matching.

• 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

Hydrodynamics with Anomalies and Effective Field Theory

Explore hydrodynamics as bosonic effective field theory, connecting Euler fluids to bosonization, chiral anomalies, and topological gauge theory in multiple dimensions.

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