Mathematical Physics Seminar

Martin Zirnbauer - Field Theory of Random Schrödinger Operators

Cedric Villani - Equilibration for kinetic equations

In-person Seminar - Konstantin Matveev - Stochastic six-vertex model and Hall-Littlewood positivity

Yuval Peres - How does high-dimensional Euclidean space look when travelling on a cloud of uniformly random points?

Geoffrey West - On the future of the planet; universal laws of life, growth and death from organisms and cities to the anthroposphere

Jürg Fröhlich - "Ultimate Statistical Physics:" Quantum Mechanics as a Complete Theory

In-person Seminar - Ian Jauslin - Studying many Boson systems using the Simplified Approach to the Bose gas

Leonard Susskind – De Sitter space and the Double-scaled Limit of SYK

Yuhai Tu - Stochastic learning dynamics and generalization in neural networks: Can statistical physicists help understand AI?

In-person Seminar - Siddhartha Sahi - Lyapunov exponents for random products of real matrices

Nigel Goldenfeld -Topological scaling laws and the statistical mechanics of evolution

Mehran Kardar - Competition at the front of expanding populations

In-person Seminar - Eric Carlen - Duality and monotonicity for some inequalities of quantum information theory

Alexander Grosberg – Non-equilibrium phase transition, polar order, and coherent flows in the nucleus of a living cell

Leonid Bunimovich - DYNAMICAL MODEL for DISEASES with CROSS-IMMUNOREACTIVITY

In-person Seminar - Maxime Van De Moortel - Impulsive gravitational waves

Ron Peled - Random packings and liquid crystals

Joachim Krug - Evolution in changing environments and driven disordered systems

Deepak Dhar – Hard rigid rotors on a lattice

Michael Berry – The caustic of colours in Newton’s prism

Edward Witten – An Observer in De Sitter Space

In-person Seminar - Alex Morozov - From networks to spin glasses: Inference of discrete system thermodynamics from non-equilibrium ensembles of random walks

Larry Abbott – New Results in Random Network Theory

Massimo Vergassola - Navigation in complex natural environments

Giulio Biroli - Renormalization Group Theory and Machine Learning

In-person Seminar - Subhro Ghosh - The unreasonable effectiveness of determinantal processes

Satya Majumdar - Stochastic Resetting

Jorge Kurchan – Solidity and information

In-person Seminar - Stefano Olla - Diffusive Fluctuations in Hard Rods Systems and other integrable dynamics

Daniel Stein - The Thermodynamic Structure of Short-Range Spin Glasses

Svetlana Jitomirskaya- Fractal properties of the Hofstadter butterfly, eigenvalues of the almost Mathieu operator, and topological phase transitions

Eric Vanden-Eijnden – Learning to sample better

Bernard Derrida - Large deviations in non-equilibrium systems

In-person Seminar - Ron Peled - Random packings and liquid crystals

In-person Seminar - John Bush - Hydrodynamic quantum analogs

Sid Redner - Facilitated, Cooperative, and Obstructed Exclusion

In-person Seminar - Bhargav Narayanan - Friendly Bisections of Random Graphs

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

Salvatore Torquato - Order Metrics and Diffusion Spreadability to Characterize Two-Phase Microstructures Across Length Scales

In-person Seminar - Alex Kontorovich - Length Spectra of Hyperbolic Surfaces

Yariv Kafri - The long-ranged influence of disorder on active systems

Leonid Pastur - Dynamics of Qubits in Random Matrix Environment

Andrea Montanari - Algorithmic spin glass theory

Ido Kanter – From theoretical Physics to experimental Neuroscience: The new neuron and new type of learning

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)

In-person Seminar - 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

In-person Seminar - Soeren Petrat - Asymptotic Expansions for Weakly Interacting Bosons

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

In-person Seminar - 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

In-person Seminar - 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

In-person Seminar - Sagun Chanillo - Geometric Wave Equations and Random data

Dov Levine – Order and Information out of Equilibrium

Misha Tsodyks - Mathematical models of human memory

In-person Seminar - 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

In-person Seminar - 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

In-person Seminar - 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

In-person Seminar - 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

In-person Seminar - 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

In-person Seminar - 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