Maissam Barkeshli
@MBarkeshli
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Professor of Physics at University of Maryland, College Park and Joint Quantum Institute. Previously at Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, Microsoft Station Q
University of Maryland, College Park
Joined December 2011
An absolutely incredible, highly interconnected web of ideas connecting some of the most important discoveries of late twentieth century physics and mathematics. This is an extremely abridged, biased history (1970-2010) with many truly ground-breaking works still not mentioned:
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RT @SuryaGanguli: Overall, I believe it is imperative to pursue a new unified Science of Intelligence that can help us understand and impro…
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RT @dayal_kalra: I'll be at #NeurIPS2024 this week, presenting our work tomorrow on the mechanisms of warmup! 📍 W…
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@ZoharKo sure, I'm curious what you have in mind. It is an important fact for 2d materials so the answer has been hard-coded in my memory
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@TimHenke9 The black hole is described by the CFT at non-zero temperature. The non-zero T breaks the scale invariance of the CFT.
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RT @KyleCranmer: My first pass at a blog post in response to @beenwrekt's post on the Higgs. Some sections aren't complete, but it's a star…
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Looks like very exciting work. Congrats
A confluence of high-performance computational methods and novel perspectives on disorder in correlated electron systems yields strange metals in a realistic model and predictions for future experiments. 1/2
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@ZoharKo Clearly this prize was "out of distribution." Although it seems ChatGPT did not take into account that neural networks is listed under condensed matter physics!
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RT @SebastianSeung: But is it physics? Hopfield tackled three profound questions about emergence: condensed matter from interactions betwee…
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@sumofab I would say the emphasis on "quantitative" is one important aspect that distinguishes physics from science more generally. Darwin's theory of evolution is science, but I would say it is not physics because it is not quantitative.
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RT @SuryaGanguli: Congrats to John Hopfield and @geoffreyhinton! well deserved recognition that some important foundations of AI rest on ph…
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@beenwrekt @neu_rips You guys know that Hopfield has been one of the most celebrated and respected theoretical physicists alive right? He was also the advisor to many prominent theoretical physicists -- Bert Halperin, Steve Girvin, ...
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