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Sommerfeld Lecture Series (ASC) — 59 episodes

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Life on a Noisy Seascape: Extinction, Growth, and Diversity

2

Boundaries, inclusions and disorder in active matter

3

The Force of Nothing: Attraction and Repulsion in the Quantum Void

4

Comments on the phase of the Euclidean gravity partition function on spheres

5

The meaning of spacetime: Black holes, wormholes and quantum entanglement

6

Quantum Spin Liquids and New Phases in M-Point twisted material platforms

7

Nano-engineering from a Theoretical Physics Perspective

8

In Integers We Trust: The Periodic Table of Materials From Mendeleev to Topology

9

Eugene Demler: Photons for many body physics: a platform and probe

10

Eugene Demler: New colors of light

11

Eugene Demler: Lighting up superconductivity

12

Hirosi Ooguri: Symmetry Resolution at High Energy

13

Hirosi Ooguri: Constraints on Quantum Gravity

14

Yaron Oz: Entanglement, Chaos and Quantum Computation

15

Yaron Oz: Unraveling Turbulence: Modern Viewpoints on an Unsolved Problem

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Yaron Oz: The Quantum Universe: Information, Communication and Computation

17

Thibault Damour: Black Hole Binary Dynamics from Classical and Quantum Gravitational Scattering

18

Thibault Damour: Gravitational Waves and Binary Black Holes

19

Thibault Damour: 100 Years of General Relativity

20

Theory Colloquium: Scaling Down the Laws of Thermodynamics

21

Statistical Physics Seminar: Quantum Impulse Control

22

Public Lecture: Adventures of an Idea – the Life and Travels of Maxwell’s Demon

23

Theory Colloquium: When a Symmetry Breaks

24

Public Lecture: Quantum Universe

25

Fields and Strings Seminar: What is dark matter?

26

Public Lecture: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quantum Physics in Mathematics

27

Theory Colloquium: Topological Gravity and Matrix Models

28

Theory Colloquium: The Life and Death of Turbulence

29

What can Theoretical Physics tell us about the Origin and Evolution of Early Life?

30

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Electronic Squeezing of Pumped Phonons: Negative U and Transient Superconductivity

31

Theory Colloquium: Meeting Dirac’s Challenge: modern approaches to the Correlated Electron Problem

32

Public Lecture: Superconductivity

33

Fields and Strings Seminar: Duality in 2 + 1 Dimensions

34

Theory Colloquium: Symmetries, Duality, and the Unity of Physics

35

Public Lecture: The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics

36

Fields and Strings Seminar: Holographic Quantum Codes

37

Theory Colloquium: Quantum Information and Spacetime

38

Public Lecture: Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier

39

ASC Theory Colloquium: Physics and Geometry of Morphogenesis

40

Public Lecture: On the Possibility of Evolutionary Forecasting

41

Theory Colloquium: Towards Material Design Using Strongly Correlated Electron Materials

42

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Shining Light on Transition Metal Oxides: Resilient Quasiparticles and the Unveiling of the Hidden Fermi Liquid

43

Public Lecture: The Quest for High Temperature Superconductivity

44

Public Lecture: The Principle of Least Action, from the “Vis-viva” to Quantum Black Holes

45

Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium: Sloppy Models and How Science Works

46

Biophysics Seminar: Statistical Physics in Biology: Twisting transitions for DNA, and Ising Models for cell Membranes

47

Public Lecture: Crackling Noise

48

Public Lecture: Quantum Beauty

49

Solid State Theory Seminar: Dipole Excitations in 2D insulators. Quantum Levy flights

50

Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium: Many- Body Anderson Localization

51

Public Lecture: How to tell quantum condensates from pendulul clocks?

52

Solid State Theory Seminar: Quantum phase transitions, and the high temperature superconductors

53

Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium: What can string theory teach us about condensed matter physics?

54

Public Lecture: The quantum phases of matter

55

Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium: Looking for Cosmic Strings

56

Public Lecture: Many Worlds in One

57

Public Lecture: From Atoms to Novel Materials: A Quantum Engineer's Dream

58

Solid State Theory Seminar: Death of a Quasiparticle: Strong Correlations from Hund's Coupling

59

Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium: Quantum Matter with Strong Correlations