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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Congratulations to Puxin Lin @uwmadphysics.bsky.social for successfully passing the Prelim (PhD candidacy) exam!

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Kyle Cranmer @kylecranmer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Job🚨: AI & theoretical physics postdoc jointly with @UWMadPhysics & @Perimeter: * Agentic approaches & test-time scaling methods * Symbolic verification & tool usage * LLMs & evolutionary algorithms * Fine-tuning & RL * benchmarks tpbench.org academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31141

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UW–Madison Data Science Institute @uwdsi.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Check out this project from DSI Affiliate @garyshiu.bsky.social!

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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…

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Generalized symmetry constraints on deformed 4d (S)CFTs - Craig Lawrie, DESY

YouTube video by UW-Madison HEP Theory and Cosmology Seminar

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Great to have Zeeshan Ahmed (SLAC) giving our @uwmadphysics.bsky.social colloquium today on “Investigating cosmic origin and evolution with the oldest photons”.

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It’s great to have Kendrick Smith from @perimeterinstitute.ca telling us about “Fast Radio Bursts with Chime” at our @uwmadphysics.bsky.social Colloquium.

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

La teoría de cuerdas no ha muerto es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/teor%C3%ADa-...

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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.

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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.

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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!

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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/

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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!

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Congratulations to Jacky Yip @uwmadphysics.bsky.social for passing the prelim exam: www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=9...

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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…

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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.

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University of Wisconsin-Madison Physics Department event calendar.

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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.

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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....

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

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.

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

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

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Multifield Cosmology: Inflation, Dark Energy, & More - 5-day workshop underway at Simons Center Stonybrook Videos: scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal... Event site: scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/39293 @cburgescliff.bsky.social, @garyshiu.bsky.social are presenting, maybe we'll get event commentary?

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Multifield Cosmology: Inflation, Dark Energy and More: February 5-9, 2024 – SCGP

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

"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.

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

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.

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