Dr. Simon León Krug, Postdoc at Dep. of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich
Theoretical physics is a multi-faceted field encompassing an abundance of disciplines, often times only sharing one language: math. Of particular importance for my research since my Master’s has been complex analysis, in particular integrals. Although I changed disciplines twice since then, I remain a theoretical physicist at heart, so in this talk, I will describe how widely applicable many methods from analysis are, and how they carry over into seemingly unrelated fields.
We will start from hadronic molecules, path integrals and Feynman diagrams, move to computational alchemy, chemical space and integral transforms, to finally finish with theoretical chemistry, reaction rates and back to path integrals. The talk aims to motivate how many tools from (under-)graduate education are much more present in active research than one expects initially; furthermore, it showcases problems which lend themselves exactly to such a transfer of complex analytic methods.
Article
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.034042
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0245863
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01098
Recording
The talk will be streamed but there will be NO recording.