Past Events

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Scott Sheffield – MIT Wednesday, September 18th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Gauge theory and random surfaces I will discuss recent developments in the use of surface sums in Yang-Mills gauge theory, including

Sergiu Klainerman – Princeton University Wednesday, September 11th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The Global Nonlinear Stability of Slowly Rotating Kerr Black Holes The discovery of the Kerr solution in 1963 has raised the possibility that there exist

Bertrand Halperin – Harvard University Wednesday, September 4th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Fractional Statistics and Interferometry in Quantum Hall Systems Fractional quantum Hall states host quasiparticles with fractional charge and either fractional statistics or its extension, non-Abelian

Joshua S. Weitz – University of Maryland Wednesday, August 28th, 10:45AM EDT On The Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Inefficient Viral Infections CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Viral infections transform the fate of microbial cells, populations, and ecosystems. The infection and lysis

Pedro Garrido - Universidad de Granada Date/Time/Location Thursday, September 26th, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF HARD PARTICLES: A TOOL TO UNDERSTAND MACROSCOPIC LAWS Hard particle systems are among the most successful, inspiring, and prolific models in physics. They

Eitan Tadmor – University of Maryland Wednesday, August 21st, 10:45AM EDT Emergent behavior in alignment dynamics with short-range interactions CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Alignment protocols are governed by different classes of pairwise communication kernels. They often feature “social particles”

Christopher Jarzynski – University of Maryland Wednesday, August 14th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Fluctuation theorems for autonomous work In stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems for the work performed on a system of interest have been derived within a

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Cyrill Muratov – Università di Pisa Wednesday, August 7th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Magnetic skyrmions: an overview I will present an overview of the results on existence and asymptotic properties of

Miguel A. Muñoz – University of Granada Wednesday, July 31st, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Quasi-universal scaling of brain activity: from real neurons to artificial intelligence The brain is in a state of perpetual neural activity, even in

Detlef Lohse – University of Twente Wednesday, July 24th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Transition to the Ultimate Regime in Rayleigh-Bénard Turbulence In this talk I will reconcile the various experimental observations for large Rayleigh number Rayleigh–Bénard (RB)

Juan Maldacena – Institute for Advanced Study Wednesday, July 17th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The no boundary wavefunction of the universe: a gentle review One of the most interesting aspects of observational cosmology is the study of

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Hans Jürgen Herrmann – ETH Zurich Wednesday, July 10th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Rolling Matter We will discuss realizations of solids, which can sustain internally rotational degrees of freedom. They are

Peter Sarnak –Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Study Wednesday, July 3rd, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The Bass Note of locally uniform geometries Various recent developments using the conformal bootstrap and random covers, can be viewed as the

Alessandro Giuliani – University Roma Tre Wednesday, June 26th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Electrical transport in 2D systems of interacting electrons: the Hall conductivity of the Haldane-Hubbard model Determining the effect of electron-electron interactions on transport coefficients

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Ivan Corwin– Columbia University Wednesday, June 19th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Extreme Diffusion or Was Einstein Wrong About Diffusion? In a system of many particles diffusing in a common environment, the

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Jane Kondev– Brandeis University Wednesday, June 12th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The Scale Invariant Cell Dr. Gulliver noticed 150 years ago that the size of

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY ------------------------------------------------------- Patrik Ferrari – University of Bonn Wednesday, June 5th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Limit processes for flat KPZ We consider stochastic growth models in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, like the asymmetric

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Izaak Neri – King’s College London Wednesday, May 29th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Using martingales to study fluctuations of currents in first-passage problems of nonequilibrium

Daniel Ueltschi – University of Warwick Wednesday, May 22nd, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Around the exact solution of the 2D Ising model I will review a few recent developments about the two-dimensional Ising model. With Georgios Athanasopoulos,