Past Events

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

Eleni Katifori – University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, November 13th , 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Geometry Matters: Spatial Considerations in the Design of Physical Networks Networks optimized for one or several cost functions are commonplace in nature and

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Panayotis Kevrekidis – University of Massachusetts, Amherst Wednesday, November 6th , 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Teaching an old dog some new tricks: from discrete solitons and vortices, to rogue waves, flat

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

Sauro Succi – Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia at la Sapienza Wednesday, October 30th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Carleman approach to the quantum simulation of fluids In the last few years, significant work has been devoted to

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

Nicholas Read – Yale University Wednesday, October 23rd, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Structural analysis of Gibbs states and metastates in short-range classical spin glasses The old problem of the equilibrium spin systems with quenched disorder remains unsolved

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

Rupert Frank – University of Munich Wednesday, October 16th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The Wehrl entropy problem: mathematical physics meets complex analysis and representation theory The coherent state transform, under various names, appears in many fields of

____________________________________________ 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

Leticia F. Cugliandolo – Sorbonne Université Wednesday, October 9th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Melting in Two Dimensions The melting of a solid composed of sufficiently hard particles in two dimensions is a two-step process, involving successive transitions

Theodore Jacobson – University of Maryland Wednesday, October 2nd, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Mathematics of magnetic confinement Magnetic confinement of plasma for nuclear fusion power has been pursued for over seven decades. While that goal has remained

Sylvia Serfaty – New York University Wednesday, September 25th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Coulomb and Riesz gases: some recent developments We'll present some results on Coulomb and Riesz gases in general dimension: local laws describing the system

____________________________________________ 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

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Scott Sheffield – MIT Wednesday, September 18th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Gauge theory and random surfaces I will discuss recent developments in the use of surface sums in Yang-Mills gauge theory, including

Sergiu Klainerman – Princeton University Wednesday, September 11th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The Global Nonlinear Stability of Slowly Rotating Kerr Black Holes The discovery of the Kerr solution in 1963 has raised the possibility that there exist

Bertrand Halperin – Harvard University Wednesday, September 4th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Fractional Statistics and Interferometry in Quantum Hall Systems Fractional quantum Hall states host quasiparticles with fractional charge and either fractional statistics or its extension, non-Abelian

Joshua S. Weitz – University of Maryland Wednesday, August 28th, 10:45AM EDT On The Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Inefficient Viral Infections CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Viral infections transform the fate of microbial cells, populations, and ecosystems. The infection and lysis

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

Eitan Tadmor – University of Maryland Wednesday, August 21st, 10:45AM EDT Emergent behavior in alignment dynamics with short-range interactions CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Alignment protocols are governed by different classes of pairwise communication kernels. They often feature “social particles”