Gary Shiu
garyshiu.bsky.social
Gary Shiu
@garyshiu.bsky.social
Professor of Physics @UWMadison

https://shiu.physics.wisc.edu
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Excited to share with you an exciting project with Jacky Yip @uwmadphysics.bsky.social and Charles Arnal and Francois Charton at Meta where we develop a transformer model to automate the generation of Calabi-Yau manifolds, extra dimensional spaces in string theory: arxiv.org/abs/2507.03732
July 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Excited to share with you an exciting project with Jacky Yip @uwmadphysics.bsky.social and Charles Arnal and Francois Charton at Meta where we develop a transformer model to automate the generation of Calabi-Yau manifolds, extra dimensional spaces in string theory: arxiv.org/abs/2507.03732
July 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
An action packed week in Japan: KEK workshop on Topological Analysis in Data Science: www.kek.jp/ja/research/... a seminar on the weak gravity conjecture: www.kek.jp/en/research/... and finally a talk on “Topology and Brain Science”: ithems.riken.jp/en @uwmadphysics.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Visiting @nordita.org for 2 days giving a colloquium and a seminar. This is how a physics institute should look like: a place to cultivate deep thoughts without forgetting fun! @uwmadphysics.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Congratulations to my undergraduate advisee Qing (Helena) Huang for winning the Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship! While her major is in Statistics, Data Science and Information Science, her award winning work with me is deeply rooted in @uwmadphysics.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Great to have Craig Lawrie fron DESY visiting us @uwmadphysics.bsky.social this week. His talk on “Generalized symmetry constraints on deformed 4d (S)CFTs is now on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/ALKNwSCkhqg?si…
Generalized symmetry constraints on deformed 4d (S)CFTs - Craig Lawrie, DESY
YouTube video by UW-Madison HEP Theory and Cosmology Seminar
https://youtu.be/ALKNwSCkhqg?si…
March 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Videos for the UW-Madison HEP Theory and Cosmology Seminar @uwmadphysics.bsky.social: physics.wisc.edu/events/?name... are now on YouTube. You can find the first few talks this year by Asher Berlin, Alberto Castellano, and Gordon Krnjaic on my playlist: youtube.com/@gary_shiu
March 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Great to have Sash Sarangi (EMAlpha) visiting
@uwmadphysics.bsky.social for a couple of days and giving an interesting seminar on "Thinking Fast and Slow". The video recording of his talk is now on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=3WAa... Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@Gary_Shiu
March 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New paper alert! With Puxin Lin and Alessandro Mininno
@uwmadphysics.bsky.social we formulate the Weak Gravity Conjecture in Anti de Sitter Space: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05862 Interesting plot twist about BPS states and the Weak Gravity Conjecture!
Formulating the Weak Gravity Conjecture in AdS Space
We propose a version of the Weak Gravity Conjecture that applies to AdS spacetime. We find that the condition on the charge-to-mass ratio of a charged particle in AdS$_D$ spacetime is corrected compar...
arxiv.org
March 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Great to have Zeeshan Ahmed (SLAC) giving our @uwmadphysics.bsky.social colloquium today on “Investigating cosmic origin and evolution with the oldest photons”.
March 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It’s great to have Kendrick Smith from @perimeterinstitute.ca telling us about “Fast Radio Bursts with Chime” at our @uwmadphysics.bsky.social Colloquium.
January 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
La teoría de cuerdas no ha muerto es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/teor%C3%ADa-...
January 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
In case you missed arxiv.org/abs/2412.15405 which came out right before the winter holidays: Building on foundational work with Jacky Yip and Adam Rouhiainen
@uwmadphysics.bsky.social: arxiv.org/abs/2308.02636 we showed how to Machine Learn cosmological parameters from topological statistics.
January 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Today I will be talking about “The String Genome Project” based on work of my group @uwmadphysics.bsky.social in the beautiful campus of the University of Tokyo.
December 18, 2024 at 12:57 AM
I am thrilled to be talking about “The String Genome Project” at the ITS Symposium on “The Geometry and Phenomenology of String Compactifications” in NYC tomorrow: itsatcuny.org/calendar/202... based on a body of work with my group @uwmadphysics.bsky.social. A full day of talks ahead!
December 12, 2024 at 5:26 PM
If you are attending the Machine Learning and Physical Sciences workshop at #NeurIPS2024 #ml4ps2024, check out Haotian Cao's poster @uwmadphysics.bsky.social based on his paper with
@garrettmerz.bsky.social @kylecranmer.bsky.social
@uwdsi.bsky.social and me. ml4physicalsciences.github.io/2024/
December 12, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Proud of my student Puxin Lin @uwmadphysics.bsky.social
who delivered a great talk based on our paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.02197 at the Worldline Seminars: sites.google.com/view/worldli... He showed great poise in front of the world experts of the worldline formalism!
December 10, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Congratulations to Jacky Yip @uwmadphysics.bsky.social for passing the prelim exam: www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=9...
December 6, 2024 at 10:19 PM
For Spanish readers interested in Particle Physics from String Theory, check this out: francis.naukas.com/2024/07/24/e... Read more about the subject here: arxiv.org/abs/2401.01939
El modelo estándar en la teoría de cuerdas - La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
La gran crítica a la teoría de cuerdas es que no es una teoría predictiva. Nuestro universo no contiene cuerdas, luego está en un estado de vacío para la teoría […]
francis.naukas.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Virtual open house for underrepresented Physics-PhD applicants @uwmadphysics.bsky.social at 10-11am US central time. Here is the zoom link: uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
December 3, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Looking forward to the Physics Department Colloquium @uwmadphysics.bsky.social on "The DNA of Particle Scattering" by Lance Dixon (SLAC) today at 3:30pm: physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=8821 Hidden symmetries of quantum scattering may be revealed by machine learning models staring at theoretical data.
Events
University of Wisconsin-Madison Physics Department event calendar.
physics.wisc.edu
November 22, 2024 at 3:20 PM
I am please to announce a seminar by Francois Charton (Meta) on “AI for the Working Mathematician” on Nov. 20 at 4pm in Room 1435 of Chemistry at UW-Madison:

dsi.wisc.edu/2024/11/12/a...

This kicks off a new "AI for Science Seminar Series” organized in partnership with the Data Science Institute.
AI for Science Seminar: AI for the Working Mathematician
DSI is launching a new seminar series focused on AI for Science, which will highlight advances in science fueled by machine learning and AI as well as advances in AI inspired by scientific challenges....
dsi.wisc.edu
November 18, 2024 at 7:59 PM
It’s a pleasure speaking at the KEK cosmology workshop: conference-indico.kek.jp/event/250/time… . Interesting wall art: note that M Theory/Superstring Theory is at the very top. Finally an institute that gets the priority right.
March 4, 2024 at 5:19 AM
It’s a pleasure coming back to the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics for a workshop. Flavio Tonioni and I are giving back-to-back talks on our trilogy with Hung Tran: arxiv.org/abs/2303.03418 arxiv.org/abs/2306.07327 and arxiv.org/abs/2312.06772
February 6, 2024 at 7:17 PM