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Maria

@mmylova.bsky.social
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Postdoc in theoretical cosmology at Kavli-IPMU, Japan. Emmy Noether Fellow at Perimeter Institute. I work with early universe cosmology, primordial gravitational waves, EFT of gravity, dark energy and dark matter. Happy to answer questions if I can!

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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We are holding an interdisciplinary workshop on open quantum systems and related topics on 03-07 August '26 at Kavli-IPMU, Japan. The aim is to encourage engagement of researchers from different fields and promote new research in interdisciplinary topics: indico.ipmu.jp/event/519/
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Quantum crossroads: Interdisciplinary, hybrid workshop at the interface of open quantum systems, high-energy physics, and quantum science
Motivation (1) Effective methods in other fields (e.g. quarkonium, hydrodynamics, nonequilibrium QFT) to studyeffects of dissipation and noise and decoherence have seen a lot of progress in recent yea...
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Press release by Kavli-IPMU on our work winning the Buchalter prize 🥲 I am not good with press releases but let me say here, this was an incredible team effort! www.ipmu.jp/en/20260115-...
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Maria Mylova receives the 2025 Buchalter Cosmology Prize
January 15, 2026 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI)
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I am very happy to share that we won the 2025 Buchalter Cosmology Prize with @CburgesCliff and the rest of the gang for our work on “A minimal axio-dilaton dark sector! arxiv.org/abs/2410.11099 Well, they didn’t tell me there was money in this… 💰💰 buchaltercosmologyprize.org
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A Minimal Axio-dilaton Dark Sector
In scalar-tensor theories it is the two-derivative sigma-model interactions that like to compete at low energies with the two-derivative interactions of General Relativity (GR) $\unicode{x2014}$ at le...
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
3 months progress on bench press! Currently mastering the 30 kg (this is fucking hard but I love it!)
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
3 months ago I took going to the gym a bit more seriously. Will make some vids and post my progress. Let’s start with Squats - 30 kg (the pole is 30 kg!)
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year Everyone 😃 from Japan!
Posing with Pikachu
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I don’t know about you but I got a haircut and spend Boxing Day in the gym 💪 We do not have official Christmas holidays in Japan so it is business as usual for most 🙂 I took the week off for some well deserved rest before I make more postdoc applications and work on papers
At the gym posing with a black outfit
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Me holding a tiny Christmas tree on my palm and smiling in front of a backdrop of blinking led lights
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Some reading for the holidays! It is finally out: Gauging Open EFTs from the top down with Greg Kaplanek (Syracuse U.) and Andrew Tolley (Imperial) arxiv.org/abs/2512.17089 Long story short: we present explicit top-down calculations of Open EFTs for gauged degrees of freedom 1/7
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Gauging Open EFTs from the top down
We present explicit top-down calculations of Open EFTs for gauged degrees of freedom with a focus on the effects of gauge fixing. Starting from the in-in contour with two copies of the action, we inte...
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
New results for axio-dilaton cosmology!
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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Paper day. In a proposal last year we minimally describe the entire dark sector using two scalar fields, motivated by an approach to the cosmological constant problem. We recently fit this model to cosmological data and find it works better than LCDM, because it resolves the Hubble tension.
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It was a pleasure working with everyone! This is what happens when you extend Weinberg 😉
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Back to action! 💪
Posing by the mirror at the gym
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Enjoying the Japanese weather lol (more like humid as hell and hot) 🥵
Posing on a mirror. That’s before I went into the Japanese hot and humid weather/ outdoors sauna The weather chart for this week. It’s hot and humid as fuck.
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It’s one thing to write the proposal and then restructure the proposal to make it reviewer friendly… but filling the budget section….. seriously send me to sleep 😵
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Had a wonderful brunch with @ghazalgesh.bsky.social and @nafshordi.bsky.social today. Thank you!! 😋This is my last day at Perimeter Institute after staying here the summer 🥲 I will miss everyone!
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John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The infectious enthusiasm of my wonderful co-authors (Robert Huang, Soonwon Choi, Jarrod McClean) drove this upbeat assessment of “The Vast World of Quantum Advantage.” arxiv.org/abs/2508.05720
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The vast world of quantum advantage
The quest to identify quantum advantages lies at the heart of quantum technology. While quantum devices promise extraordinary capabilities, from exponential computational speedups to unprecedented mea...
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John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We’re excited to propose and validate simple methods for preparing ground states and thermal states of many-particle quantum systems, which might be feasible for early fault-tolerant quantum devices. All the credit goes to my brilliant collaborators Zhiyan, Yongtao, and Lin arxiv.org/abs/2508.05703
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End-to-End Efficient Quantum Thermal and Ground State Preparation Made Simple
We propose new quantum algorithms for thermal and ground state preparation based on system-bath interactions. These algorithms require only forward evolution under a system-bath Hamiltonian in which t...
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Well, this is not my day. I have been vomiting all morning and now I got fever and aches. I hope it will pass 😢🙏🏻
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I always feel teary-eyed when I manage to fit the proposal in the recommended length! 🥺💪
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a close up of a hamster with tears coming out of its eyes .
ALT: a close up of a hamster with tears coming out of its eyes .
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
42 😏
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Global Research Ireland The selection process is bound to be very competitive, but you can't win the prize if you don't buy a ticket!
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Global Research Ireland
The selection process is bound to be very competitive, but you can't win the prize if you don't buy a ticket!
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Question: when they require you to write a 3 page research statement for a job application. Does this include references??? They never seem to give clear instructions. 😫 Help! 🧪
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I am having a Touton at the black hole bistro. It is some kind of Canadian doughnut either maple syrup 😋
A photo of Touton. A plate with maple syrup and a round bread / donut
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Everybody is giddy around here because the new @perimeterinstitute.ca hoodie is out! 🤩
Posing with my new hoodie. It’s black and in the back it has a colorful image saying we are explorers
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
It’s 30c today! Heading to a bbq party with colleagues from Perimeter 🤩a
Selfie at perimeter
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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Just saw that Cosmology from Home 2025 recordings now available (74 talks). playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... CfH25 website listing with links to talks: cosmologyfromhome.com/cosmology-fr... #cosmology
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Cosmology from Home 2025 - YouTube
Some of the talks that were pre-recorded for Cosmology from Home 2025.
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Ok I think I am getting better at this selfie business lol 🙃
Another selfie of me
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I had a lovely afternoon at the park with a wonderful friend 🥰 and saw swans and cute bunnies
A bunny in grass Swans by the lake
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
People that use the Greek capital letter Ξ as a mathematical symbol should go to academic hell 😑
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I am practising selfies lately. I am still crap at it. How do these young kids do it??!
Selfie of me And another selfie of me
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Correction: negative cosmological constant*. Ps: the doctor prescribes to not watch more than one holography talks per day cause they screw with your brain 🤣
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Have been attending the QIQG (Quantum Information and Quantum Gravity) conference at Perimeter Institute this week. It’s great to catch up with collaborators and watch some very interesting talks! 🤩 But let me remind you all: we don’t live in a universe with a positive cosmological constant 🙃
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
My institute, Kavli-IPMU at the university of Tokyo is hiring early career researchers whose work has been disrupted due to difficult circumstances due to events happening at various places currently in the world. Please repost and encourage them to apply. 🙏🏻 www.ipmu.jp/en/job-oppor...
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Special Postdoctoral Positions for displaced scientists (2025)
The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), WPI at the University of Tokyo solicits applications for its special Postdoctoral Fellowship program.
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Niayesh @nafshordi.bsky.social is one of the most intellectually adventurous physicists I’ve worked with! A truly rebellious spirit but always grounded in careful and methodical thinking. Thank you for including our tale in your new book! A battle was won! 🤩
The battle of the Big Bang book A page from the battle of the Big Bang book
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Stephon Alexander playing the saxophone with the band at Perimeter Institute today
The band at perimeter institute
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
It is this time of the year at PI… I don’t dare go near the Canadian geese!
Canadian geese and their babies
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
At Lee’s (Smolin) Fest at Perimeter Institute watching the talk by Stephon Alexander on Cosmology, Quantum Gravity and a Constant
The stage where the speaker is talking from
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Bad news: I have a cold from hell but I hope it will improve soon. Good news: they finally fixed the WiFi in my apartment so I don’t have to go work at Perimeter. Especially while I am carrying the plague 😷 I did mask though!
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I’m visiting Perimeter Inst. this summer (I’ve been slow on social media updates). They have many Quantum Info talks this week so I thought to attend them. Big chunks of it is pretty formal and mathematical. It reminds me of sitting in Quantum Gravity seminars 😝
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a yellow wall with a caption that says your guess is as good as mine
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a yellow wall with a caption that says your guess is as good as mine
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The first thing I did once I landed in Korea ☺️🥳 😍
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Schrödinger’s cat, but it’s a banana you forgot in your bag all day 😫
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Hard at work at the Ginza book cafe. 😏 Worth a visit if you find yourself in Tokyo. More details in the ALT tex 😆
Photo of my table with a ragu bolognaise, matcha latte and my tablet. Can see part of my legs 😆 with Nike socks and trainer shoes. Effortlessly rocking that casual physicist style
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A visit to Starbucks with my colleague from IPMU ☺️😉
Selfie with my female colleague
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Almost 5 months strength training at the gym. I never felt stronger! 🤩 highly recommend it, especially considering how we spend hours sitting behind a desk. Way to go!
Wearing white trackies and black hat and posing with some weights Wearing white trackies and black hat and posing with some weights
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Freya Blekman @freyablekman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Want to know more about particles, string theory, Higgs bosons, #darkmatter and all other things #quantumUniverse? Then maybe this 2-week fundamental physics summer school for MSc and BSc (final year) physics students is for you! This summer in Hamburg. More info: indico.desy.de/event/48195/...
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Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 14/05/2025
Deadline extended to 23 May!
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I made this at Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement) class today 😊
Two roses arranged with green long leaves in a black flat vase
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Had some sweet news today 😄
A very delicate sakura dessert at a dessert bar in Japan
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Maria @mmylova.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
When everything else fails, just go back and read Weinberg. 🤓 🧪⚛️
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