Past Events

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR ------------------------------------------------------- Edo Kussell – New York University Wednesday, May 15th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Evolutionary advantage of cell size control Molecular mechanisms that control cell growth and division enable bacteria and other microorganisms to

Paul J. Steinhardt – Princeton University Wednesday, May 8th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING How the Universe became smooth and flat and what will happen next In a talk intended for non-experts, I will discuss recent progress in

Jacob Shapiro - Princeton University Date/Time/Location Thursday, May 2nd, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 Double-Well Eigenvalue Splitting: Excited and Non-Radial Magnetic States We present some preliminary results regarding the question of double-well eigenvalue splitting for: (1) excited states (which are in

Sara A. Solla – Northwestern University Wednesday, May 1st, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING A mean-field theory for heterogeneous networks of spiking neurons Mean-field theory links the physiological properties of individual neurons to the emergent dynamics of neural

Alexander Neimark - Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 25th, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 Mesocanonical Ensemble to Study Equilibrium and Hysteretic Transitions in Confined Nanophases Phase transitions in fluids confined by nanoscale constraints are affected by geometric restrictions and guest-host interactions.

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Ilya A. Gruzberg – The Ohio State University Wednesday, April 24th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Multifractals and conformal invariance at Anderson transitions. Multifractal measures arise in such diverse subjects as dynamical chaos,

____________________________________________ IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINARRUTGERS UNIVERSITYHILL 705____________________________________________ COFFEE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT 12:00. THERE WILL BE A BROWN BAG LUNCH AFTER THE SEMINAR. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL ME AT EHS48@RUTGERS.EDU Yi-Zhi Huang - Rutgers University Date/Time/LocationThursday, April

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Margherita Disertori – University of Bonn Wednesday, April 17th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Fractional Anderson model and long-range self-avoiding walks The fractional Anderson model has been subject to increasing interest in recent

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh - Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 11th, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 Spectral lines of general-relativistic hydrogenic ions After reviewing basics of the spectral theory for non-relativistic quantum-mechanical hamiltonians of hydrogenic ions, I

Ken Golden – University of Utah Wednesday, April 10th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING From Micro to Macro in the Physics and Biology of Sea Ice Earth’s sea ice covers form a key component of the climate system.

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR Roderich Tumulka- Eberhard Karls University Tubingen Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 4th, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 On the Measurability of Arrival Times In an arrival-time experiment, one places detectors along the surface of a 3d region Omega and

Eric Siggia – Rockefeller University Wednesday, April 3rd, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Geometry and Genetics The classic phenomena of canalization in developmental biology, that outcomes are discrete and biologically interpretable, is a license to treat phenomenological models

____________________________________________ IN-PERSON JOINT MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS/LIE GROUP/QUANTUM MATH SEMINARRUTGERS UNIVERSITYHILL 705____________________________________________ COFFEE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT 12:00. LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED AFTER THE SEMINAR. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL ME AT EHS48@RUTGERS.EDU Hofie Hannesdottir – Institute for Advanced Study

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Gregory Eyink – Johns Hopkins University Wednesday, March 27th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Fluid Turbulence and Statistical Physics Collide We present an overview of recent developments in fluid turbulence and new

Troy Shinbrot - Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 21st, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 Granular models for moon and asteroid morphologies Asteroids, moons and planetesimals exhibit remarkable shapes, ranging from ravioli- and walnut- like (Saturn's moons, Pan & Iapetus) to pointed

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Robert Seiringer – Institute of Science and Technology Austria Wednesday, March 20th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Energy-momentum spectrum and effective mass of a strongly coupled polaron We present a mathematically rigorous

Michael Berry – University of Bristol Wednesday, March 13th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Quantum trajectories: Madelung, de Broglie, Newton… The wave counterparts of the classical paths of material particles and the rays of geometrical optics are ‘Madelung

____________________________________________ IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________ COFFEE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT 12:00. THERE WILL BE A BROWN BAG LUNCH AFTER THE SEMINAR. Herbert Spohn - Technical University of Munich Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 7th, 12:10pm; Hill Center

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Susan Coppersmith – UNSW Sydney Wednesday, March 6th, 10:45AM EST Quantum stochastic resonance of individual Fe atoms CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Stochastic resonance, where noise synchronizes a system’s response to an external drive,

____________________________________________ IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________ Pham Tiep - Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 29th, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 Bounding character values of finite groups Finite-dimensional complex representations of finite groups are determined (up to equivalence)