Mathematical Physics In-Person Seminar

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

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.

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

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

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

Seungki Kim - University of Cincinnati Date/Time/Location Thursday, May 8th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 A physical study of the LLL algorithm The Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) algorithm is a celebrated and fundamental method of lattice reduction, which finds in polynomial

Herbert Spohn – Technical University Munich Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 24th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Universality classes for coupled Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equations Considered is the KPZ equation with two components, constrained to be symmetric under exchange. This model is of

Di Fang – Duke University Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 17th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Time-dependent Hamiltonian Simulation: Quantum Algorithm and Superconvergence Simulation of quantum dynamics, emerging as the original motivation for quantum computers, is widely viewed as one of

Sagun Chanillo– Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 10th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Rayleigh-Benard Convection The Rayleigh-Benard Equations are a model for the study of Convection in Fluids. Over the last 75 years, a lot of effort has gone

Serena Cenatiempo - Gran Sasso Science Institute Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Ground State Energy of Dilute Bose Gases: The Case of Hard Spheres In recent years, there has been substantial progress in the mathematical

Thomas Chen – University of Texas at Austin Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 13th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Emergence of quantum Boltzmann dynamics in boson and fermion gases This talk presents some recent results regarding the emergence of quantum Boltzmann

Alexandre V. Morozov – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 6th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Evolution of cooperativity in the game of Prisoner's Dilemma Complex life would be impossible without cooperation at all levels of biological organization: genes cooperate

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________ Alex Kontorovich – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 27th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Spanning trees of graphs We prove the exponential growth of the cardinality of the set of

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________- Chris Woodward – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 20th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Landau-Ginzburg potentials for integrable systems I will focus on a class of integrable systems called "almost

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________ Yanyan Li – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 13th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Liouville theorems for conformally invariant fully nonlinear equations and applications We present new results on optimal

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________ Michael Vogelius – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, January 30th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Passive Cloaking and Non-scattering In this talk I shall discuss some theoretical results concerning invisibility, non-scattering

Eric Carlen – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, January 23rd, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Nonequilibrium steady states for some simple systems with reservoirs modeled by Lindblad equations We consider some simple quantum systems in which the dynamics is Hamiltonian

Derek Frydel – Federico Santa Maria Technical University Date/Time/Location Thursday, December 5th, 2:00 pm; Hill Center 705 Run-and-tumble particles in slit geometry as a splitting probability problem Run-and-tumble particles confined between two walls seem like a simple enough problem to

Noa Zilberman – Princeton University Date/Time/Location Thursday, November 21st, 2:00 pm; Hill Center 705 Quantum effects inside black holes Astrophysical black holes are known to be rotating. Within classical General Relativity, the simplest spacetime solution (the Kerr solution) describing a

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________ Paul Feehan – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, November 14th, 2:00 pm; Hill Center 705 Gauge theory and the Bogomolov-Miyaoka-Yau inequality The Bogomolov-Miyaoka-Yau (BMY) inequality is a topological property of most compact