Past Events

Michael Kiessling – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, October 30th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Rigorous and numerical results on atomic clusters I am presenting some recent joint work with the chemist David Wales concerning atomic (and molecular) clusters. Cluster

Randall Kamien – University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, October 29th, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING A new classification of dislocations and disclinations Crystals and other condensed matter systems described by density waves

Henryk Iwaniec – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, October 23rd, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Recent Trends In Analytic Number Theory Abstract. Classical methods of ANT are based on Fourier analysis in R^n. Modern methods exploit harmonic analysis on hyperbolic

Abel Klein – University of California, Irvine Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Localization phenomena in the infinite random XXZ spin chain We show that the infinite Heisenberg XXZ

Bhargav Narayanan – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, October 16th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Elementary symmetric polynomials under the fixed point measure I’ll talk about a surprising inequality satisfied by elementary symmetric polynomials under the action of the fixed

Christian Maes – KU Leuven Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Kinetics of nonequilibrium response: negative heat capacity and negative drag We discuss two aspects of extended fluctuation-dissipation relations

Sheldon Goldstein – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 What is Quantum Mechanics? Quantum Mechanics is Bohmian Mechanics.

Andrea Montanari – Stanford University Wednesday, October 8th, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Overparameterized Systems: From Smale 17th problem to neutral networks Spin glass theory studies the structure of sublevel sets

David Nelson – Harvard University Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Turbulent Mixing and Antagonistic Microorganisms Unlike coffee and cream that homogenize when stirred, growing micro-organisms (e.g., bacteria and

Emil Yuzbashyan – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, September 25th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Instability of Metals under Strong Electron–Phonon Interaction and the Prospect of Room-Temperature Superconductivity In this talk I will show that thermal equilibrium between conduction electrons

Jorge Kurchan – LPENS, École Normale Supérieure Wednesday, September 24th, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Do Lyapunov exponents measure chaos? The solar system has a relatively large Lyapunov exponent, and yet

Mariusz Mirek – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, September 18th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Recent Developments in Pointwise Convergence Problems in Ergodic Theory. The aim of this talk is to survey recent developments in pointwise convergence problems in ergodic

Giulio Biroli – Ecole Normale Supérieure Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Generative AI and Diffusion Models: a statistical physics approach Generative AI represents a groundbreaking development within the

Fioralba Cakoni – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, September 11th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 The Control of Scattered Field for Linear and Nonlinear Scattering Media Many imaging methods in inverse scattering rely on the ability to superimpose scattering data

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi – Northeastern University Wednesday, September 10th, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VEIW RECORDING From Physical Network to Network Materials Materials are inherently network-based systems, whose physical properties are defined by the

Leonard Susskind – Stanford University Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING A surprising correspondence between three models I will explain a surprising correspondence between three systems, one a cosmological

Jacob Shapiro – Princeton University Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST Classification of spectrally-gapped non-interacting insulators CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Topological insulators exhibit observables that are quantized and experimentally stable. Classifying these systems

Abhishek Dhar– ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru Wednesday, August 6th, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING A blast and a splash in a one-dimensional cold gas We study the response of an infinite system of

Clément Mouhot – University of Cambridge Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING A consistency-stability approach to scaling limits of zero-range processes We propose a simple quantitative method for studying

Hugues Chaté - CEA Saclay, France Wednesday, July 23rd , 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Active crystals and the XY model with persistent noise Two-dimensional crystals made of active particles can