<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Theory Girls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Theory Girls]]></description><link>https://www.theorygirls.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:34:30 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.theorygirls.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Einstein's Lenses: The Trip to Mars Begins]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anna: Part One, Part Two, Part Three Anna Part Four - The Trip to Mars Begins When Rigby and Casey first boarded the shuttle back on Diem...]]></description><link>https://www.theorygirls.com/post/einsteins-lenses-the-trip-to-mars-begins</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60fedc60fb39a200151b1e10</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:09:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ecb241_aa6fcfbc62d34762ad97db9baede8267~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_758,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>The Theory Girls</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Interview with Mary Gaillard]]></title><description><![CDATA[These interviews were collected at The Standard Model at 50 Years: A Celebratory Symposium. 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This was a celebration to honor the founders...]]></description><link>https://www.theorygirls.com/post/an-interview-with-helen-quinn</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6186aa8bba785500160acbcd</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2021 05:04:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ecb241_5ce6381a090d4bc0a6ebbad5610b400f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>The Theory Girls</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phase Transitions and the Conformal Bootstrap: Part Two]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brian McPeak, PhD University of Pisa This is a two-part post. Be sure to check out part one. Hi all, I’m Brian—a postdoc working at the...]]></description><link>https://www.theorygirls.com/post/phase-transitions-and-the-conformal-bootstrap-part-two</link><guid isPermaLink="false">618ee507cbbc890016516c53</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:31:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ecb241_f0328c1c0aea4d9688cc77f90586def1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>The Theory Girls</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Poor Woman’s Derivation of a Covariant Entropy Bound: Part One]]></title><description><![CDATA[Laura Johnson, PhD ETH Zurich Although this two part blog is geared towards our readers with a bit of a physics background, part one is...]]></description><link>https://www.theorygirls.com/post/a-poor-woman-s-derivation-of-a-covariant-entropy-bound-part-one</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60a8197415f3e40015e99452</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:07:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ecb241_92b9c1ca9ddc4318bec30fa6536fe7ae~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>The Theory Girls</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[108 Nanoseconds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every 108 nanoseconds at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), two ion beams pass by one another at 99.999% the speed of light, in the]]></description><link>https://www.theorygirls.com/post/electron-ion-collider</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d5b0f65b6f96200164dfab1</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2021 21:20:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ecb241_4c49cf747800466c8ff041bfbd5f7429~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_750,h_422,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annika Ewigleben</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phase Transitions and the Conformal Bootstrap: Part One]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the exciting parts of theoretical physics is finding unexpected connections. Often we find that physical systems which look completel]]></description><link>https://www.theorygirls.com/post/phase-transitions-and-the-conformal-bootstrap-part-one</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5fd24ac32d0f710017e9d65c</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2021 12:46:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ecb241_dd4f9d8cd9ea42babb3f20187dc8a82a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>The Theory Girls</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graviton Scattering and Geometric Bootstrap Bounds]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this post we’ll explore some of the motivation and background for a recent preprint about a new method for finding bounds on Einstein man]]></description><link>https://www.theorygirls.com/post/graviton-scattering-and-geometric-bootstrap-bounds</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f53e7a292b8a70017df3d38</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2021 03:06:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ecb241_bb257c7d032b460cba5c807e072ea255~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>The Theory Girls</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where 1 2 3 Meets Quantum Gravity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Integer partitions, q-series, and conformal field theories.]]></description><link>https://www.theorygirls.com/post/where-1-2-3-meets-quantum-gravity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f2f4d267b22d200177f12ba</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 01:19:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ecb241_e6e64f56dc4d4018a82f5e2b0ddc4434~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>The Theory Girls</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buridan’s Quantum Ass]]></title><description><![CDATA[— musings on quantum mechanics, the multiverse, and scientific principles old and new Christian Jepsen, PhD Princeton University Why is...]]></description><link>https://www.theorygirls.com/post/buridan-s-quantum-ass</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f1c8425b969e00017528aaa</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 12:52:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ecb241_fa6313badcf14cfeaecf3a396ee731fb~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>The Theory Girls</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Einstein's Lenses: Initial Conditions]]></title><description><![CDATA[After her musings about children dancing had subsided, Rigby noticed the headlines of a newspaper on a nearby table. 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Hazel Mak is giving a shared talk with Yangrui Hu at the gong show on June 23, 2021 (starting at 12:40pm EST) at the annual...]]></description><link>https://www.theorygirls.com/post/solving-a-40-year-old-problem-11d-superfield</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60d2388c7fc4910015fd1386</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 21:44:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ecb241_eab5b162c2764d758c775a6c891de998~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>The Theory Girls</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[PhD Applications at the University of Edinburgh]]></title><description><![CDATA[We would like to encourage our readers that are interested in mathematical or theoretical physics and hoping to pursue a PhD to apply to...]]></description><link>https://www.theorygirls.com/post/phd-applications-at-the-university-of-edinburgh</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f92e2a1f914c4001717ab0e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:50:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ecb241_ea474c0074d344a7920f5ec43a16e7b0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>The Theory Girls</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["Constraints on a Massive Double Copy and Applications to Massive Gravity" ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Join us for an interview with Theory Girls Laura Johnson and Shruti Paranjupe as well as Callum Jones! 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