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Unity is one of the world’s leading platforms for creating interactive 3D environments, powering everything from games and mobile apps to scientific visualizations and immersive virtual reality experiences. While widely known in the entertainment industry, Unity has become an increasingly powerful tool in scientific research, communication, and education.

This course introduces Unity as a versatile platform for simulating and visualizing physical phenomena. Over the span of five hours, participants will learn to build interactive 3D scenes that bring physics to life, using Unity’s built-in physics engine and custom scripts to model dynamic systems.

Participants will:

• - Gain hands-on experience in Unity’s 3D environment and physics engine
• - Learn to simulate classical mechanics and physical interactions
• - Create visual representations of abstract or large-scale phenomena (e.g. motion, forces, collisions, or energy)
• - Develop skills to port simulations to desktop, mobile, or immersive platforms (VR/AR)

By this course, students are encouraged to push the boundaries of traditional science communication by designing novel ways to represent and explore the core ideas of fundamental physics. The tools and concepts learned here can serve as a launchpad for creative projects in astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, nuclear physics and medical physics — making the most complex and abstract phenomena more accessible, intuitive, and interactive.

Expected schedule:

• - Morning: 10.00 - 12.30
• - Afternoon: 15.00 - 17.00

Registration form: https://forms.office.com/e/tFRKwFGjDK?origin=lprLink

This course is part of the IGFAE\'s Academic Training Programme (more info here).

The relativistic viscous hydrodynamic description of the quark-gluon plasma by Müller-Israel-Stewart formulations has been very successful, but despite this success, these theories present limitations regarding well-posedness and causality. In recent years, a well-behaved version of the relativistic Navier-Stokes equations has been formulated, appearing as a promising alternative in which those limitations are absent. Using this novel theory, we perform numerical simulations of a quark-gluon plasma fluid that we use to describe experimental data on the transverse momentum distribution of hadrons from central Pb–Pb collisions measured at the LHC.

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in developing measures of complexity for the unitary evolution in quantum mechanics. One approach, known as Nielsen complexity, visualizes the evolution as a continuous "program" executed by the system and applies measures developed in computational complexity theory to judge whether the unitary evolution operators are simple or complex. Another approach, known as Krylov complexity, tracks how rapidly quantum states and operators spread over different independent directions as they evolve. One key question is whether these quantities are capable of distinguishing the evolution operators of solvable (simple) systems from generic (chaotic, complicated) ones. I will describe the challenges and achievements within this line of pursuit, as well as interrelations between the two apparently different approaches.

Seminar funded by La Caixa: fellowship from the ”la Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434) with code LCF/BQ/PI24/120

 In this talk, I will discuss correlation functions in 4d N = 4 SYM involving two maximal giant gravitons and two light 1/2-BPS operators. I will argue that it is most natural to view them as two-point correlators in the presence of a zero dimensional defect. Using this picture together with analytic bootstrap techniques, I will show how all infinitely many such correlators can be fully fixed just from symmetries and consistency conditions. Moreover, I will point out a hidden higher dimensional symmetry which repackages these correlators into a simple generating function. I will also present evidence that the same symmetry holds at weak coupling for loop correction integrands.

Directors:

-Yassid Ayyad

-Beatriz Fernández Domínguez

Tribunal:

-Dr. Thomas Roger (GANIL-France) | Chair

-Dr. Miguel Ángel Benítez (Universidad de Huelva)

-Dr. Manuel Caamaño Fresco (IGFAE/USC)