Past Events

Antti Kupiainen – University of Helsinki Wednesday, April 2nd , 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Wess-Zumino-Witten models and path integrals The Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) model is a 2 dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) . In this talk I will

Bernard Derrida – Collège de France and ENS Paris Wednesday, March 26th , 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Overlaps in spin glasses and models of evolution Overlaps play a central role in the theory of spin glasses. In

Jim Hudspeth – Rockefeller University Wednesday, March 19th , 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The physiology and physics of hearing: How the ear's works work As the gateway to human communication, the sense of hearing is of enormous

Thomas Chen – University of Texas at Austin Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 13th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Emergence of quantum Boltzmann dynamics in boson and fermion gases This talk presents some recent results regarding the emergence of quantum Boltzmann

Michael Aizenman– Princeton University Wednesday, March 12th , 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Entropy of (quantum) entanglement in pure states of rapid decorrelation The entropy of the restriction of a pure quantum state to a subsystem is a

Alexandre V. Morozov – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 6th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Evolution of cooperativity in the game of Prisoner's Dilemma Complex life would be impossible without cooperation at all levels of biological organization: genes cooperate

Michael Cates– University of Cambridge Wednesday, March 5th , 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Multiple interfacial tensions in active phase separation In thermal equilibrium, the interfacial tension between coexisting phases is a free energy derivative with respect to

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________ Alex Kontorovich – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 27th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Spanning trees of graphs We prove the exponential growth of the cardinality of the set of

Roman Kotecky – University of Warwick Wednesday, February 26th , 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Surface tension for the Widom-Rowlinson model in continuum The Widom-Rowlinson model of interacting particles in continuum is one of few cases where phase

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________- Chris Woodward – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 20th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Landau-Ginzburg potentials for integrable systems I will focus on a class of integrable systems called "almost

Francesco Zamponi - Sapienza Università di Roma Wednesday, February 19th , 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Emergent time scales of epistasis in protein evolution We introduce a data-driven epistatic model of protein evolution, capable of generating evolutionary trajectories

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________ Yanyan Li – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 13th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Liouville theorems for conformally invariant fully nonlinear equations and applications We present new results on optimal

David Mukamel – The Weizmann Institute Wednesday, February 12th , 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Local drive and long-range correlations in interacting diffusive systems The long-range nature of the nonequilibrium steady state resulting from a local drive (a

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Satya N. Majumdar – Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Modeles Statistique (LPTMS) Wednesday, February 5th , 10:45AM EST Correlated Resetting Gas CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING I will first discuss the equilibrium properties of

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________ Michael Vogelius – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, January 30th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Passive Cloaking and Non-scattering In this talk I shall discuss some theoretical results concerning invisibility, non-scattering

Stephan De Bievre – Universite de Lille Wednesday, January 29th , 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Approach to equilibrium: a case study in a quantum optics model Approach to equilibrium is the phenomenon whereby large isolated systems with

Eric Carlen – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, January 23rd, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Nonequilibrium steady states for some simple systems with reservoirs modeled by Lindblad equations We consider some simple quantum systems in which the dynamics is Hamiltonian

Eric Vanden-Eijnden – NYU Wednesday, January 22nd , 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Generative modeling with flows and diffusions Generative models based on dynamical transport have recently led to significant advances in unsupervised learning. At mathematical level, these

Andrea Bertozzi – UCLA Wednesday, January 15th , 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING High-throughput optimization of DNA-aptamer secondary structure for classification and machine learning intepretability We consider the secondary structures for aptamers, single stranded DNA sequences that often

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ David A. Huse – Princeton University Wednesday, January 8th , 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Thermalization of Quantum Many-Body Folquet Systems This talk will explore some aspects of how generic local quantum