Mathematical Physics In-Person Seminar

Ian Tobasco – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, October 31st, 2:00 pm; Hill Center 705 Homogenization of Kirigami and Origami-Based Mechanical Metamaterials Mechanical metamaterials are many-body elastic systems that deform in unusual ways, due to the interactions of nearly rigid building

Natan Andrei – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, October 24th, 2:00 pm; Hill Center 705 Quantum impurity in interacting and non-interacting media When a local spin impurity is placed in a metal, modeled as a non-interacting gas of electrons, it is

Jeffry Kahn – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, October 17th, 2:00 pm; Hill Center 705 Balancing extensions in posets of large width

____________________________________________ IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________ Ian Jauslin – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, October 10th, 2:00 pm; Hill Center 705 A liquid-vapor phase transition in a simple model At 100 degrees Celsius, liquid water boils and

____________________________________________ IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINARRUTGERS UNIVERSITYHILL 705____________________________________________ THERE WILL BE A BROWN BAG LUNCH BEFORE THE SEMINAR at 1pm. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL ME AT EHS48@RUTGERS.EDU Avraham Soffer - Rutgers University Date/Time/LocationThursday, September 19th, 2:00pm; Hill Center

Pedro Garrido - Universidad de Granada Date/Time/Location Thursday, September 26th, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF HARD PARTICLES: A TOOL TO UNDERSTAND MACROSCOPIC LAWS Hard particle systems are among the most successful, inspiring, and prolific models in physics. They

Jacob Shapiro - Princeton University Date/Time/Location Thursday, May 2nd, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 Double-Well Eigenvalue Splitting: Excited and Non-Radial Magnetic States We present some preliminary results regarding the question of double-well eigenvalue splitting for: (1) excited states (which are in

Alexander Neimark - Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 25th, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 Mesocanonical Ensemble to Study Equilibrium and Hysteretic Transitions in Confined Nanophases Phase transitions in fluids confined by nanoscale constraints are affected by geometric restrictions and guest-host interactions.

____________________________________________ IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINARRUTGERS UNIVERSITYHILL 705____________________________________________ COFFEE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT 12:00. THERE WILL BE A BROWN BAG LUNCH AFTER THE SEMINAR. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL ME AT EHS48@RUTGERS.EDU Yi-Zhi Huang - Rutgers University Date/Time/LocationThursday, April

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh - Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 11th, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 Spectral lines of general-relativistic hydrogenic ions After reviewing basics of the spectral theory for non-relativistic quantum-mechanical hamiltonians of hydrogenic ions, I

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR Roderich Tumulka- Eberhard Karls University Tubingen Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 4th, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 On the Measurability of Arrival Times In an arrival-time experiment, one places detectors along the surface of a 3d region Omega and

____________________________________________ IN-PERSON JOINT MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS/LIE GROUP/QUANTUM MATH SEMINARRUTGERS UNIVERSITYHILL 705____________________________________________ COFFEE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT 12:00. LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED AFTER THE SEMINAR. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL ME AT EHS48@RUTGERS.EDU Hofie Hannesdottir – Institute for Advanced Study

Troy Shinbrot - Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 21st, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 Granular models for moon and asteroid morphologies Asteroids, moons and planetesimals exhibit remarkable shapes, ranging from ravioli- and walnut- like (Saturn's moons, Pan & Iapetus) to pointed

____________________________________________ IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________ COFFEE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT 12:00. THERE WILL BE A BROWN BAG LUNCH AFTER THE SEMINAR. Herbert Spohn - Technical University of Munich Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 7th, 12:10pm; Hill Center

____________________________________________ IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 ____________________________________________ Pham Tiep - Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 29th, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 Bounding character values of finite groups Finite-dimensional complex representations of finite groups are determined (up to equivalence)

Anirvan Sengupta - Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 22nd, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705 Estimating Quantum States from Sequential Weak Measurements Estimating quantum states from time-dependent measurements is important for the manipulation and processing of information in quantum systems. We discuss

IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY HILL 705 Anirvan Sengupta - Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 22nd, 12:00pm; Hill Center 705 TBD TBD

____________________________________________ IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINARRUTGERS UNIVERSITYHILL 705____________________________________________ IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL ME AT EHS48@RUTGERS.EDU Kasper Larsen - Rutgers University Date/Time/LocationThursday, February 15th, 12:00pm; Hill Center 705 Existence of a singular ODE with applications in financial economics I

____________________________________________ IN-PERSON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINARRUTGERS UNIVERSITYHILL 705____________________________________________ COFFEE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT 11:50. THERE WILL BE A BROWN BAG LUNCH AFTER THE SEMINAR. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL ME AT EHS48@RUTGERS.EDU Bhargav Narayanan – Rutgers University Date/Time/LocationThursday, February

Eugene Speer – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 1st, 12:00pm; Hill Center 705 Approach to Hyperuniformity in Facilitated Exclusion Processes A (probabilistic) translation invariant state of a system of particles on a lattice is called hyperuniform if the variance of