Student Seminar – Benjamin Sauer on “Correlation functions on the lattice and twisted cocycles” and Roman Stemplowski on “Romansplaining loops, episode 1 : the phantom menace”

Speaker
Benjamin Sauer and Roman Stemplowski

Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/02/2025
11:00 - 12:00

Location
IRIS Building, Room 1.221


Speaker: Benjamin Sauer

Title: Correlation functions on the lattice and twisted cocycles

Abstract: Due to recent criticism about talks on gravitational waves I will give a talk about correlation functions in a scalar theory. To make things worse we will do this on the lattice. We will use IBP reduction and differential equations to calculate the correlation functions.

 

Speaker: Roman Stemplowski

Title: Romansplaining loops, episode 1: the phantom menace

Abstract: In this talk, I will begin by explaining mathematical definitions behind the concept of Wilson lines in gauge theory using the analogy with GR. On the second half of the talk, we will try to make more precise the idea that gauge theories can be formulated entirely using Wilson loops. Baby level warning!