Hi Everybody,
I am a theoretical particle physicist from the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh. As part of the Higgs Summer Forum event series we are organising a debate around theoretical predictions of the muon g-2.
The panelists will be Prof. Laurent Lellouch (Aix-Marseille Université, BMW collaboration) and Prof. Christoph Lehner (Regensburg University, RBC-UKQCD collaboration). The debate will be introduced and moderated by Dr. Vera Gülpers from the Higgs Centre. The presentations by the panelist will aim at being accessible in part by non-experts.
The event will take place online on the 16th of July at 12:00 UTC. Please feel free to join the discussion by freely registering here! There will be a thread opened on r/Physics for questions during the event. Selected questions will be forwarded to the live event.
If you have no idea what this is about, recently the Fermilab experiment strengthened a long-lasting disagreement between theoretical predicitions and experimental measurements for the muon anomalous magnetic moment. In principle this can be considered as a hint for the existence of new, unknown laws of physics. However, recently a new independent determination of the theoretical value from the BMW collaboration now shows a resonable agreement with experiment, indicating there might not be much to be excited about. The sense in which this calculation is independent is because it is based on lattice QCD numerical simulations using supercomputers, which is radically different from dispersive calculations used so far. Hence the title of the forum "Detection of New Physics From the Muon g-2 Exp.: Much Ado About Nothing?". Both our panelists are experts in lattice QCD, including a member of the BMW collaboration.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
EDIT: The thread for questions for the event is here https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/olem0s/today_1200_utc_forum_on_muon_g2_theoretical/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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I am an international freshman student currently studying theoretical physics at UCL. I am loving my course, highly passionate about it, but the financial and the job prospects post degree are not that satisfying. Plus academia has totally gotten out of my mind which was why I chose UK in the first place lol.
As a result I am looking at my chances to transfer into engineering at some of the best colleges in the US.
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An Alice Universe is a theoretical universe where a particular location can be perceived as distant and close at the same time (i.e. if you were to keep walking away from your friend, you would eventually reach your friend from behind). Think about the Girl Front music video where Kim Lip keeps running but it looks like a loop. It is the idea that space is folded upon itself like a Klein Bottle (two mobius strips put together). So like a wormhole you are able to reach back to your original position without using any previous route, and you can be both in front and behind someone at the same time depending on perspective.
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ViViD displays a journey in a loop. The video begins and HeeJin is being commanded by a mystery woman whose full face is not shown. She then discovers new rooms and colours, clothes and shoes, a three-faced mirror, etc. After that a room starts melting and eventually all the colours begin to merge together. We are left with HeeJin back at where she started, staring at the figure who is leaving the house once again. However she is wearing different clothes. The beginning has changed slightly but she is back to where she was before.
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I'm right now doing a Masters by Research working on quantum information theory for applications in quantum computing. I'm also doing lot of teaching assistant work for both the mathematics department and the physics department at my university.
But, I've kind of become disillusioned with academia these days for various reasons, so instead I'm really thinking about going into quantitative finance after I graduate since it looks like former mathematics and/or physics researchers end up doing really well in that field (correct me if I'm wrong).
I have a book on stochastic calculus for finance (by Shreve) that I've partially worked though, the mathematical structures are gorgeous and I'm sure that with my background I can master the contents of the book pretty quickly if I could fit in the time. However my actual trading experience only consists of some algorithmic stock and crypto trading that I used to do back in the day independently, I've never worked for a financial institution so it was nothing serious, and obviously I will need to learn more about financial markets in general.
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I am a post graduate student and I would like my project to span 2 to 4 semesters. I would also like it to be a pen-paper project with no programming. I like GR and QFT. The problem is I have no idea where to start looking from. I can't find anything online, any links would be helpful. I don't even know how it would look like. Any help is welcomed.
I have an exam in February and want to use the upcoming holiday week to learn the following topics more in depth because I was struggling with them in the past weeks.
- Lagrange formalism 1&2
- Legendre transformation
- Hamiltonian formalism
- Kronecker-Delta
- Levi Civita Symbol
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- Rotation Matrix
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Hello and thanks for taking the time out to read. I am new to this site and currently an undergraduate who has studied some introductory college physics(Classical mech.,basic QM,E&M,etc).I was looking for problems or competitions online which promoted some tricky or out-of-the-box methodology outside the common pattern of university examinations at an undergraduate level.
Then I stumbled upon this site which holds a competition titled International Theoretical Physics Olympiad for Undergraduate Students(http://thworldcup.com). In the "About" section,it said that it is for undergraduates interested in research,and I hoped the problems would be at least attack-able based on my current background. However that it is simply not the case. Problems and solution approaches presented were so much out-of the-box that I realized my current level was inadequate.
I am currently looking for resources in my semester break to bring myself upto speed as far these type of problems and concepts go. I would be obliged if more experienced members on the site would help me in this endeavour. Once again, a heartfelt thanks for helping.
After a good amount of research, I am still struggling a lot with which bachelor I should pursue. Please help me...
I already know what I want to conduct my research on (topic: magnetic monopoles), the problem is just that I don't know what to investigate or analyze. What are some research methods you would recommend? What are some easily applicable concepts? Preferably, rather advanced topics/math, but "simple" execution.
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I will be starting a PhD with two advisors (one at the Sapienza University of Rome and the other at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences) at the intersection of pure mathematics and theoretical physics (homotopy theory and quantum field theory).
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Hello, I am a student Theoretical Physics currently in my last year and I am starting my Masters Thesis. I would like my topic to be in the direction of physics applications in theoretical/Mathematical finance. I did some research and concluded that there are already quite a number of papers on a "quantum mechanical formulation of finance" etc. I also found the books by Belal Baaquie which seem very interesting.
I was wondering if any of you did a master thesis/wrote a paper/did some research in this field? What are some good references to do some reading up on these types of topics? Are these books by Baaquie good and respected?
Thanks in advance!
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I'm right now doing a Master of Research working on quantum information theory and a I'm doing lot of teaching assistant work for both the mathematics department and the physics department at my university. I've kind of become disillusioned with academia these days for various reasons, so instead I'm really thinking about going into quantitative finance after I finish my MRes since it looks like former mathematics and/or physics researchers end up doing pretty well in that field (correct me if I'm wrong).
My actual trading experience only consists of some algorithmic stock and crypto trading that I used to do back in the day independently, I've never worked for a financial institution so it was nothing serious, and obviously I will need to learn more about finance in general.
With the above in mind, I'd really like to hear some advice from professional quants who were mathematics/physics grad students originally as to what I should do after I finish my MRes to best make the transition between theoretical physics research and quantitative finance. Any kind of advice is valuable.
Hello and thanks for taking the time out to read. I am new to this site and currently an undergraduate who has studied some introductory college physics(Classical mech.,basic QM,E&M,etc).I was looking for problems or competitions online which promoted some tricky or out-of-the-box methodology outside the common pattern of university examinations at an undergraduate level.
Then I stumbled upon this site which holds a competition titled International Theoretical Physics Olympiad for Undergraduate Students(http://thworldcup.com). In the "About" section,it said that it is for undergraduates interested in research,and I hoped the problems would be at least attack-able based on my current background. However that it is simply not the case. Problems and solution approaches presented were so much out-of the-box that I realized my current level was inadequate.
I am currently looking for resources in my semester break to bring myself upto speed as far these type of problems and concepts go. I would be obliged if more experienced members on the site would help me in this endeavour. Once again, a heartfelt thanks for helping.
Hello, I am a student Theoretical Physics currently in my last year and I am starting my Masters Thesis. I would like my topic to be in the direction of physics applications in theoretical/Mathematical finance. I did some research and concluded that there are already quite a number of papers on a "quantum mechanical formulation of finance" etc. I also found the books by Belal Baaquie which seem very interesting.
I was wondering if any of you did a master thesis/wrote a paper/did some research in this field? What are some good references to do some reading up on these types of topics? Are these books by Baaquie good and respected?
Thanks in advance!
Hello, I am a student Theoretical Physics currently in my last year and I am starting my Masters Thesis. I would like my topic to be in the direction of physics applications in theoretical/Mathematical finance. I did some research and concluded that there are already quite a number of papers on a "quantum mechanical formulation of finance" etc. I also found the books by Belal Baaquie which seem very interesting.
I was wondering if any of you did a master thesis/wrote a paper/did some research in this field? What are some good references to do some reading up on these types of topics? Are these books by Baaquie good and respected?
Thanks in advance!
