NYU Physics Courses

Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe and Cosmic Domain Walls

Explore gravitational waves from early Universe cosmic domain walls, their detection methods, cosmological evolution, and potential for creating primordial black holes.

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

BSM Light Mediator Opportunities from On-Going SM Experiments

Explore BSM light mediator detection opportunities through ongoing Standard Model experiments like MUonE, Hyper-K, IceCube, and GRAND for dark photon and neutrino interactions.

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

Causal AI in Astrophysics

Discover how causal AI revolutionizes astrophysics by bridging data-driven methods with theoretical physics to reveal unknown phenomena in exoplanets, galaxy evolution, and cosmology.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 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

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

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

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

Five Lessons in de Sitter Quantum Gravity

Explore five key developments in de Sitter quantum gravity, including holography, S-matrix elements, Hilbert space, topology, and path integral measure, with insights on future research directions.

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

Novel String Production Mechanisms and Gravitational Wave Detectors

Explore novel string production mechanisms in the early and late universe, their formation analogous to vortices in superconductors, and their unique gravitational wave signatures including the "string bosenova" phenomenon.

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

nEXO and the Quest for Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay

Delve into the physics of neutrino-less double beta decay and explore nEXO, a 5-tonne enriched Xenon experiment designed to probe the Majorana nature of neutrinos and investigate lepton number conservation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unpredictability in Quantum Gravitational Collapse

Delve into advanced theoretical physics concepts examining quantum unpredictability during gravitational collapse, exploring groundbreaking research in quantum gravity and black hole dynamics.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A CFT Dual for Celestial MHV Amplitudes - Informal HEP Talk

Dive into celestial holography and explore a 2D CFT dual for 4D gluon MHV amplitudes in flat space, examining leaf amplitudes, free fermion current algebra, and Liouville theory in the semiclassical limit.

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