Mathematical Physics Seminar

Andrea Bertozzi - Tears of Wine

Mark Alber - Combined Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Study of the Biomechanical Mechanisms of Platelet-Driven Contraction of Blood Clots

Arup K. Chakraborty - Viruses, Immunity, and Vaccines

Udo Seifert - From stochastic thermodynamics to thermodynamic inference

David R. Nelson - Geometrical frustration and fractional defect charges on cones

Scott Aaronson - Discrete Bulk Reconstruction

Steven M. Girvin - Adventures in Quantum Phase Space: Why Bosons are Better than Qubits for Quantum Error Correction

Sylvia Serfaty – Microscopic description of Coulomb gases

Michael J. Shelley - Flows and instabilities in cellular biomechanics

Maxim Kontsevich - Over-determined Schwinger-Dyson equations for matrix models

Peter Constantin - On the Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system

Sidney Nagel - Memory formation in out of equilibrium systems

Sriram Ramaswamy - Directions in Active Matter

Peter Fratzl -Simple mechanobiological models for tissue growth and regeneration

Peter Wolynes - The Theory of Glasses: The Last Twenty Years (Mostly)

Guillarmou Colin - Conformal bootstrap and Segal axioms for Liouville Conformal Field Theory

Albert-László Barabási - Controlling Networks: Fundamentals and applications to brain science

Jonathan Mattingly - A random forcing model of the 2D  fluid equations

Jim Hudspeth - Making an effort to listen: mechanical amplification by ion channels and myosin molecules in hair cells of the inner ear

Soeren Petrat - Asymptotic Expansions for Weakly Interacting Bosons

Irene Giardina - Departure from equilibrium and signatures of irreversibility in flocking systems

Natasa Sesum - Ancient solutions to geometric flows

Yves Pomeau - Turbulence: from the basics to slightly beyond

Jean-Pierre Eckmann - The predictive power of theoretical biology

Tom Lubensky - Metamaterials and Topological Mechanics

Stefano Olla - Heat flow in a system in contact with a thermal bath subjected to periodic forcing

Ned Wingreen - Phase separation in biological cells

Roberto Car – Molecular Dynamics with Machine Learned Potentials

Sagun Chanillo - Geometric Wave Equations and Random data

Dov Levine – Order and Information out of Equilibrium

Misha Tsodyks - Mathematical models of human memory

Eric Carlen - Spectral gaps and entropy production for some quantum Markov semigroups

Martin Hairer - The Brownian castle

Raymond E. Goldstein - Cytoplasmic Streaming and the Swirling Instability of the Microtubule Cytoskeleton

Michael Cates - Informatic and Thermodynamic Entropy Production in Active Systems

Camillo De Lellis - Classical and weak solutions in incompressible fluid dynamics

Francesco Zamponi - Recent progresses in the mean-field approach to the jamming transition

Paul J. Steinhardt - A New Direction in Early Universe Cosmology

Henri Orland - The Physics of Complex and Disordered Systems: the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics of Giorgio Parisi

Giorgio Parisi - Spin glass theory and multiple equilibria

Yanyan Li - Anisotropic Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg type inequalities

Leticia F. Cugliandolo - (Non equilibrium) Thermodynamics of classical integrable models in their thermodynamic limit

Christopher Jarzynski - Stochastic thermodynamics in the strong coupling regime

Stanislav Smirnov - Of crystals and corals

Avy Soffer - The Asymptotic States of Nonlinear Schrödinger Type equations

James Langer - Dislocation Theory: The mysterious disconnect between engineering phenomenology and nonequilibrium statistical physics

Edward Witten - Black Hole Thermodynamics: Then and Now

Siddhartha Sahi - On the extension of the FKG inequality to n functions

Nathan Seiberg - Comments on Lattice vs. Continuum Quantum Field Theoryory

Bulbul Chakraborty - Emergence of Elasticity in Amorphous Solids

Jozsef Beck - Billiards in polygons: finite and infinite of finite area

Uri Alon - Mathematical essence of aging

Theodore A. Jacobson - Black hole entropy and the quantum vacuum

Jeff Kahn - Linear cover time is exponentially unlikely

Bernard Derrida - Renormalization and disorder : a simple toy model

Bertrand Halperin – On the Quantum Hall Effects:  Status of Theory and Experiment

Michael Kiessling – General relativistic surprises at small scales

Nima Arkani-Hamed - Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics, Particles and Strings, Polytopes and Binary Geometries

Paul Falkowski – Light to Life on Earth

Hugo Duminil-Copin – Emerging symmetries in 2D percolation

Sara A. Solla – Population Dynamics in Neural Systems

Remi Monasson - Embedding of Low-Dimensional Attractor Manifolds by Neural Networks

Subir Sachdev - The SYK model: a window into black holes and non-Fermi liquids

John Bechhoefer - What can Maxwell’s demon do? An experimental and theoretical study of the factors that limit the performance of information-fueled engines

Herbert Spohn - Hydrodynamic equations for the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equation in one space dimension

Annette Zippelius - Emergence of Long-Ranged Stress Correlations at the Liquid to Glass Transition

Peter Sarnak - The additive structure of the spectrum of a metric graph

Paul Chaikin – Random Close Packing as a Dynamical Phase Transition

Juan Maldacena - The entropy of Hawking Radiation

Giovanni Jona-Lasinio – Analogies and differences between equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics of classical systems

Michel Devoret - Error correction of a logical quantum bit encoded in a superconducting cavity

Daan Frenkel - Entropy and entropoids

Avi Wigderson - The Value of Errors in Proofs   -  a fascinating journey from  Turing's seminal 1936 R ? RE to the 2020 breakthrough of MIP* = RE

Slava Rychkov - Long-range Ising model and relatives: a renormalization-group laboratory

Benjamin Doyon - The hydrodynamics of many-body integrable systems

Larry Abbott – Vector computations in the fly brain

Marc Mézard - Statistical physics of learning in neural networks: the importance of data structure

Haim Sompolinsky - Geometry of Concept Manifolds

Leonard Susskind – Some Aspects of Quantum Complexity

Yan Fyodorov - Multiple Equilibria and Resilience in Large Complex Systems: beyond May-Wigner model

Harry L. Swinney - Crystallization in a Repeatedly Sheared Granular Medium

Edward Witten – The Problem of Quantization

Gian Michele Graf - Topology in shallow-water waves: A violation of bulk-edge correspondence

Cristina Marchetti – Active Topology

Lai-Sang Young - A dynamical model of the visual cortex

Kenneth M. Golden - Modeling sea ice in a warming climate

How Materials Can Learn How to Function

Julia M Yeomans - Self-propelled Topological Defects

Nigel Goldenfeld - The life and death of turbulence

Daniel Fisher - Ecological Chaos and Microbial Diversity

Haim Brezis - A surprising formula for Sobolev norms

John Cardy - On the peculiar elastic properties of TTbarite

David Huse - The many-body-localization (MBL) to thermalization phase transition

Vieri Mastropietro - Lines of critical points and Kadanoff relations

Michael Berry - Superoscillations in waves: old, new, common, uncommon

Simone Warzel - Quantum spin glasses: some recent results

Yunbai Cao - The Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in bounded domains

Predrag Cvitanovic - Spatiotemporal Cat: A Chaotic Field Theory

Joseph Avron - A hundred years of adiabaticity

Mykhaylo Shkolnikov - A sharp interface limit in the Giacomin-Lebowitz model of phase segregation