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

https://shiu.physics.wisc.edu
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
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
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
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
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
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
"The Standard Model from String Theory - What have we Learned?" w/ Fernando Marchesnao & Timo Weigand: arxiv.org/abs/2401.01939 This is the question Michael Peskin, editor of Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science asked us. Hope our answers are satisfactory.
January 5, 2024 at 3:22 PM
January 4, 2024 at 10:30 PM
It’s a pleasure speaking at the String Data Conference at Caltech: stringdata2023.caltech.edu. Very stimulating meeting which featured a mixer with the Mathematics and Machine Learning Conference: mathml2023.caltech.edu Physics and mathematics come closer together again through AI.
December 16, 2023 at 10:16 PM