3–14 Aug 2026
Europe/London timezone
This is the annual bootstrap conference, which will take place in London during the first two weeks of August 2026

CFTs are lazy

10 Aug 2026, 11:15
45m
Lecture Theatre 1 (Blackett Building at Imperial College London)

Lecture Theatre 1

Blackett Building at Imperial College London

Speaker

Vasileios Niarchos

Description

How much information is needed to reconstruct a correlation function in conformal field theory? Surprisingly, very little. I will introduce a novel approach based on neural networks that produces a remarkably accurate approximation of scalar correlation functions in arbitrary CFTs in any spacetime dimension from a few input data. I will present a wide variety of examples and discuss the underlying mechanisms behind the approach highlighting potential future applications

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