recorded talks

Available recorded talks of mine. Slides of these talks and others (see cv) available upon request.

Generalized Entropy is von Neumann Entropy

  • Date: March 17, 2026
  • Event: OIST Qubits and Spacetime Unit Group Seminar
  • Description: Based on (1, 2)

Large fluctuations in the large-N limit

  • Date: March 4, 2026
  • Event: LITP Workshop on Quantum Black Holes - University of Michigan
  • Description: Based on (1)

Emergent Mixed States for Baby Universes and Black Holes

  • Date: December 3, 2025
  • Event: Workshop on Quantum Aspects of Black Holes and Spacetime - Institute for Advanced Study
  • Description: Based on (1)

Absolute Entropy and the Observer’s No-Boundary State

  • Date: June 24, 2025
  • Event: QIQG 2025: Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity
  • Description: Based on (1)

Watch on PIRSA

Explorations of Dissipative Quantum Chaos from Non-Hermitian Random Matrix Theory

  • Date: May 3, 2023
  • Event: PCS Institute for Basic Science Seminar
  • Description: Based on (1, 2)

Horizons as eavesdroppers, decoherence from soft radiation

  • Date: April 11 & 25, 2023
  • Events: Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics string theory / HEP-QIS seminar & Purdue Particle Physics Seminar
  • Description: Loosely based on (1)

Also presented at Purdue.

Quantum Information before the Page Time

  • Date: October 21, 2022
  • Event: Institute for Advanced Study Physics Group Meeting
  • Description: Based on (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Distinguishability in Random States, Eigenstates, and Gravity

  • Date: December 9, 2021
  • Event: Frontiers in Holographic Duality - Steklov Mathematical Institute
  • Description: Based on (1, 2)

Watch here (external video — Steklov Mathematical Institute)

Distinguishing Random States and Black Holes

  • Date: June 23, 2021
  • Event: ICTP-SAIFR Strings 2021 - Gong-Shown
  • Description: Based on (1, 2)

TT and the breakdown of the split property

  • Date: June 24, 2020
  • Event: Stanford TT Group Meeting
  • Description: Based on (1)

Watch here (external video — Stanford Zoom recording)

Derivation of holographic negativity in AdS3/CFT2

  • Date: December 11, 2019
  • Event: Gravity, Quantum Fields & Information Virtual Seminar
  • Description: Based on (1, 2)