Event Archive

Ian Jauslin: A liquid-vapor phase transition in a simple model

Leticia F. Cugliandolo - Melting in Two Dimensions

Theodore Jacobson: Mathematics of magnetic confinement

Pedro Garrido- COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF HARD PARTICLES: A TOOL TO UNDERSTAND MACROSCOPIC LAWS

Sylvia Serfaty - Coulomb and Riesz gases: some recent developments

In-Person Seminar: Avraham Soffer - Scattering Theory of Linear and Nonlinear Waves: A Unified New Paradigm

Scott Sheffield - Gauge theory and random surfaces

Sergiu Klainerman - The Global Nonlinear Stability of Slowly Rotating Kerr Black Holes

Bertrand Halperin: Fractional Statistics and Interferometry in Quantum Hall Systems

Joshua S. Weitz - On The Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Inefficient Viral Infections

Pedro Garrido: COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF HARD PARTICLES: A TOOL TO UNDERSTAND MACROSCOPIC LAWS 

Eitan Tadmor: Emergent behavior in alignment dynamics with short-range interactions

Christopher Jarzynski - Fluctuation theorems for autonomous work

Cyrill Muratov : Magnetic skyrmions: an overview

Miguel A. Muñoz - Quasi-universal scaling of brain activity: from real neurons to artificial intelligence

Detlef Lohse - Transition to the Ultimate Regime in Rayleigh-Bénard Turbulence

Juan Maldacena - The no boundary wavefunction of the universe: a gentle review

Hans Jürgen  Herrmann - Rolling Matter 

Peter Sarnak - The Bass Note of Locally Uniform Geometries

Alessandro Giuliani - Electrical transport in 2D systems of interacting electrons: the Hall conductivity of the Haldane-Hubbard model

Ivan Corwin - Extreme Diffusion or Was Einstein Wrong About Diffusion?

Jane Kondev - The Scale Invariant Cell

Patrik Ferrari - Limit processes for flat KPZ

Izaak Neri - Using martingales to study fluctuations of currents in first-passage problems of nonequilibrium processes

Daniel Ueltschi: Around the exact solution of the 2D Ising model

126th Statistical Mechanics Conference

Edo Kussell: Evolutionary advantage of cell size control

Paul J. Steinhardt - How the Universe became smooth and flat and what will happen next

Sara A. Solla - A mean-field theory for heterogeneous networks of spiking neurons

In-Person: Alexander Neimark - Mesocanonical Ensemble to Study Equilibrium and Hysteretic Transitions in Confined Nanophases

Ilya A. Gruzberg - Multifractals and conformal invariance at Anderson transitions.

In-Person Seminar: Yi-Zhi Huang - Mathematical construction of two-dimensional conformal field theories

Margherita Disertori - Fractional Anderson model and long-range self-avoiding walks

In-Person Seminar: Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh - Spectral lines of general-relativistic hydrogenic ions

Ken Golden - From Micro to Macro in the Physics and Biology of Sea Ice

In-Person: Roderich Tumulka - On the Measurability of Arrival Times

Eric Siggia - Geometry and Genetics

In-Person Seminar: Hofie Hannesdottir - Mathematical properties of scattering observables

Gregory Eyink - Fluid Turbulence and Statistical Physics Collide

In- Person Seminar: Troy Shinbrot - Granular models for moon and asteroid morphologies

Robert Seiringer – Energy-momentum spectrum and effective mass of a strongly coupled polaron

Michael Berry - Quantum trajectories: Madelung, de Broglie, Newton…

In Person: Herbert Spohn - Particle scattering and fusion for the Ablowitz-Ladik chain

Susan Coppersmith - Quantum stochastic resonance of individual Fe atoms 

In-Person Seminar: Pham Tiep - Bounding character values of finite groups

Eduardo Fradkin - Duality, Loop Models and Applications

In-Person Seminar: Anirvan Sengupta - Estimating Quantum States from Sequential Weak Measurements

Julia Yeomans - Modelling collective cell dynamics using active matter physics.

In-Person Seminar: Kasper Larsen -Existence of a singular ODE with applications in financial economics

Mark Newman - Structure, phase transitions, and message passing in sparse networks

In-Person Seminar: Bhargav Narayanan - Random Reconstruction in Two Dimensions

Edward Witten - A Background Independent Algebra In Quantum Gravity

In-Person Seminar: Eugene Speer - Approach to Hyperuniformity in Facilitated Exclusion Processes

Anushya Chandran - Quasi-periodic driving: a tool in the quantum mechanic's toolbox

In-Person Seminar: Michael Kiessling - Some rigorous results about superconductivity

Hugo Duminil-Copin - A new way of looking at high-dimensional lattice models

Daniel S Fisher – A Hitchhikers Guide to Spin Glasses

Uri Alon - Aging has nearly universal quantitative patterns

Gigliola Staffilani - The Schrödinger equations as inspiration of beautiful mathematics

Hal Tasaki - Nature abhors a vacuum: The role of effective dimension in thermalization of an isolated macroscopic quantum system

Massimiliano Esposito - Macroscopic stochastic thermodynamics

125th Statistical Mechanics Conference

In-Person Seminar: Stefano Olla - Heat equation from a deterministic dynamics

Sourav Chatterjee - On the Higgs mechanism for mass generation

Georgio Parisi - Chaos with Magnetic Field

In-Person Seminar: Lisa Carbone - Lie group analogs for infinite dimensional Lie algebras 

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud - RADICAL COMPLEXITY & BOUNDED RATIONALITY

Percy Deift - On the open Toda chain with external forcing

Martin Hairer - Stochastic Quantisation of Yang-Mills

In-Person Seminar: Konstantin Mischaikow - Identifying Nonlinear Dynamics from Sparse Data

Thomas Spencer - Phase transitions for spin systems with bond disorder.

In-Person Seminar: John Anderson - Formation of shocks for the Einstein-Euler system

Nima Arkani-Hamed - Scattering amplitudes as a counting problem and the combinatorial geometry of fundamental physics

In-Person Seminar: Toan Nguyen – Survival Threshold

Smitha Vishveshwara - From nano-constrictions to event horizons: facets of the inverted harmonic oscillator

In-Person Seminar: Michael Saks - Synchronization via small sketches 

Ken Dill - Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics: The principle of Maximum Caliber

In-Person Seminar: Alex Kontorovich - Why teach a computer how mathematicians prove theorems

Tomaž Prosen - Exactly solved models of chaotic dynamics in quantum spin systems

Carl Bender - Introduction to PT-symmetric quantum mechanics

In-Person Seminar: Alejandro Penuela - Local foliations by critical surfaces of the Hawking energy and the small sphere limit

Andrea Liu - Learning about learning with physical networks 

Kirone Mallick - An exact solution of the macroscopic fluctuation theory for symmetric exclusion

In-person Seminar: Fioralba Cakoni - Transmission Eigenvalues and Non-Scattering Inhomogeneities

Thierry Bodineau – Stochastic dynamics and the Polchinski equation: an introduction

Marc Mézard -  Matrix Factorization with Neural Networks

Cristopher Moore - The physics of inference, phase transitions, and networks

John Cardy - Dimensional reduction in the random field Ising model revisited

Joseph Avron - A Quantum game: The Mermin-Peres magic square

Joel Moore - Hydrodynamic limits of integrable and near-integrable spin chains in theory and experiment

David Pine - Self-assembly of colloidal diamond: Prospects for 3D photonic band gaps and localization

Valerio Lucarini - Statistical Mechanical Foundations of the Detection and Attribution of Climate Change

Simon A. Levin – Ecosystems and the Biosphere as Complex Adaptive Systems: Scaling, collective phenomena and governance

Wojciech De Roeck - Spreading of Wavepackets for nonlinear wave equations with disorder

James P. Sethna - Using Universal Scaling Functions

Edward Ott - Emergent Behavior in Large Systems of Many Coupled Oscillatory Dynamical Units

Erwin Frey - Self-organisation of proteins in cells

Laure Saint-Raymond - From atoms to fluids - the fluctuation regime

Herbert Spohn - Domain wall fluctuations of the six-vertex model at the ice point

Igor R. Klebanov - Tensor Models, Group Singlets, and Many-Body Scars