Strings 2025: Day 3 Amplitudes

 Well I did not attend to the fullest of my attention today so far, but I found Irene's talk interesting. Add to that the fact that I don't really know some of the speakers lol. But here are some pictures! I am not attending the celestial talk ongoing right now. For obvious reasons.

Yu Tin Huang's talk.

Tree-level amplitudes in progress.

Frankly I took this picture for Ed lol.

Questions...

UV-IR talk.

More questions.

Species scales.

I did not tune in to this talk.

Irene's talk. 

Was interesting, but again I. missed a lot of this.

The next picture I took was at the end smh

David Gross!!!

Look at that row. Ashoke. Sandip and Juan.

Review panel discussion kicked off by Shiraz.

Shiraz hyping up the panel.

Bro forgor

Flat space stuff.

Dan had a question.

Suvrat: "WHERE IS THE CFT IN CARROLIAN STUFF??"

Closing questions. 

Strings 2025: Day 2 Conclusion

The last talks of Day 2 of Strings 2025 have been concluded. These were nice but I missed the bulk of Hee-Cheol Kim's talk on 6D $(1, 0)$ SUGRA talk. Tomorrow will be awesome as well, and I will continue my career as a Strings paparazzi.

Geometric transitions talk started the post-coffee break sessions.

Lara Anderson was talking on $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories.

Questions...

Heterotic superpotentials

Good night bro in the front row!

Hee-Cheol Kim's talk was next

Finiteness conjecture

Seems interesting... I don't get it

Some comments

Masahito rocking as usual

Spin foams

More and more questions followed

Final questions

Strings 2025: Day 2 CFTs

 Here are the post-lunch session pictures I took. I must say I tuned out for some of them, but these were interesting nonetheless. Particularly the modular invariance talk that I did not take enough notes on. The next ones will be after the coffee break and will be the last for Day 2 of Strings 2025. 

Clay Cordova on solitons and representation theory!

Tin on lattice abelian Chern-Simons theories.

Modular invariance of 2D CFTs talk.

Javier after Rob Myers started the sessions.

Haag duality makes an appearance.

Ling's talk on BCFT TNs. There was also some Wheeler-DeWitt + TTbar deformations stuff?

Talk underway.

Suvrat had a question about the Hamiltonian!

Juan had a question too. Sabrina is ogling Dan Harlow.

Announcement about posters.

Strings 2025: Day 2 Algebras

 Today's Strings sessions were kicked off by Ed Witten's lecture on algebras, followed by Hong Liu, Nima Lashkari and Chris Fewster. Being the Strings 2025 paparazzi I am, I have took some pictures (i.e. screenshots). I will update with more as the day progresses.

Almheiri starting the day.

Faulkner starting Ed's session.

The Goat is talking.

Susskind was a little sus.

Hong Liu's session.

Nima Lashkari talking about parallels between ergodic theory and string theory.

Chris Fewster talking about CLPW and quantum reference frames.

The discussion panel.

Suvrat had a question.

Strings 2025: Day 1 Dark

 I just took this absolutely hilarious picture of Day 1 review + panel discussion session on condensed matter stuffs where the hep-th folks are looking completely depressed seeing condensed matter people talk about gravity:

Machine Learning is just Statistical Mechanics with better marketing

 I wrote a short article on machine learning that I wished to submit for a magazine that Aayush and friends are editing. It is not much and is frankly very superficial and fast, but it does contain some things I wanted to say before, such as about the discarding of mathematical ``pedantics" by a lot of the machine learning community. Also, the next edition of Bulk Physics, Algebras and All That will be on Calabi-Yau manifolds and will include a discussion on the calculation of the Hodge numbers and the neural network model used to calculate them. 

Machine Learning is just Statistical Mechanics with better marketing

Maldacena's paper

Maldacena had a paper today on sphere partition functions.

Real observers solving imaginary problems arXiv:2412.14014

Blade Runner 2049

 Okay let me start by apologizing to Denis Villeneuve for severely underestimating this movie. I cannot believe what I have experienced. This is such a beautiful movie that for the part $\sim $ 2 hours I have been high on the beauty of it. There are many similarities to Dune that I found, like the Mesa scene with the water, the deep growling in that scene, the texture of the bass, and other elements of the thematic scoring of it all. I will do an in-depth post today, but please, trust me, and go watch Blade Runner 2049. Please do not sleep on this beauty. It is mesmerizing and completely wraps you in the ethereality of it.

Pierdolic Oscars.

 So apparently Hans Zimmer was disqualified from being nominated as a candidate for the best score, for Dune Part 2, because it is a ``sequel" that ``uses more than 20% of the first movie's score". And because this is an absolutely dogshit situation, I will just leave it at that and not talk of it ever again. They did not award Interstellar an Oscar, which in itself is an absolutely disgusting show of human facetiousness. This is wild and let us never talk about this again. So I will just say:

\[ \boxed{\text{Jebać Oscars.}}\]