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

Phase Transitions, Dark Matter and Black Holes

Explore the novel production mechanism of particle dark matter through first-order cosmological phase transitions, and its connections to baryogenesis and primordial black holes.

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

Early Dressing of Primordial Black Holes with Cold Dark Matter Particles

Explore the theoretical process of primordial black holes capturing dark matter particles, forming compact spikes that can be analytically predicted, with implications for mutual exclusion limits and future observations.

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

Improving Prospects for the Direct Detection of Higgsino Dark Matter

Delve into the challenges and innovative approaches for detecting Higgsino dark matter, exploring astrophysics, heavy elements, and neutrino detectors to overcome detection limitations.

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

Unveiling the Nature of Dark Matter with Small-Scale Cosmic Structure

Delve into how small-scale cosmic structure measurements provide insights into dark matter properties, complementing other probes and potentially detecting dark halos below galaxy formation limits.

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

Theoretical Challenges in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy

Explore the theoretical foundations and future challenges in gravitational-wave astronomy with Alessandra Buonanno, covering current insights and the precision improvements needed for next-generation detectors.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Open String Axiverse - Implications for String Compactifications

Delve into the exploration of global symmetries in string compactifications and their implications for the axiverse with physicist Giovanni Villadoro from ICTP, Trieste.

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

Duality Viewpoint of Noninvertible Symmetry Protected Topological Phases

Delve into the classification and construction of gapped phases with noninvertible symmetries through duality transformations, exploring new symmetry-protected topological phases beyond conventional group symmetries.

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

Exploring the Birth of the Universe with the CMB

Dive into the cosmic microwave background's role in cosmology with Lyman Page Jr., exploring temperature anisotropy, polarization, and the search for primordial gravitational waves with the Simons Observatory.

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

A New Experiment to Search for QCD Axions as Dark Matter

Explore the Princeton Axion Search (PXS) experiment, its motivation, and progress in searching for QCD axions as dark matter candidates in the 0.8-2.1 μeV mass range using innovative detection technologies.

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

Where Are the Supermassive Black Holes Measured by PTAs? - Astro Seminar

Explore the recent evidence of low-frequency gravitational waves detected by Pulsar Timing Arrays and what it reveals about supermassive black holes in our universe.

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

Convexity of Scaling Dimensions Over Conformal Manifolds

Delve into the study of conformal field theories with exactly marginal couplings, exploring the concavity of scaling dimensions and implications for holographic CFTs, with testing in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Searching Dark Matter Subhalos Among Unassociated Fermi-LAT Sources

Explore how to identify dark matter subhalos by analyzing unassociated gamma-ray sources detected by the Fermi-LAT telescope, with focus on dark satellites as targets for dark matter annihilation searches.

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

RG-Stable Parameter Relations of a Scalar Field Theory in Absence of a Symmetry

Delve into the exploration of RG-stable parameter relations in scalar field theory, examining how complexification reveals hidden symmetries that explain stability despite apparent absence of symmetry.

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

Boundary Scattering and Non-invertible Symmetries in 1+1 Dimensions

Delve into boundary scattering in quantum field theories, exploring how non-invertible symmetries modify conventional crossing relations and examining kink scattering in minimal model deformations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video