Past Events

Christopher Jarzynski – University of Maryland Wednesday, August 14th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Fluctuation theorems for autonomous work In stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems for the work performed on a system of interest have been derived within a

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Cyrill Muratov – Università di Pisa Wednesday, August 7th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Magnetic skyrmions: an overview I will present an overview of the results on existence and asymptotic properties of

Miguel A. Muñoz – University of Granada Wednesday, July 31st, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Quasi-universal scaling of brain activity: from real neurons to artificial intelligence The brain is in a state of perpetual neural activity, even in

Detlef Lohse – University of Twente Wednesday, July 24th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Transition to the Ultimate Regime in Rayleigh-Bénard Turbulence In this talk I will reconcile the various experimental observations for large Rayleigh number Rayleigh–Bénard (RB)

Juan Maldacena – Institute for Advanced Study Wednesday, July 17th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The no boundary wavefunction of the universe: a gentle review One of the most interesting aspects of observational cosmology is the study of

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Hans Jürgen Herrmann – ETH Zurich Wednesday, July 10th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Rolling Matter We will discuss realizations of solids, which can sustain internally rotational degrees of freedom. They are

Peter Sarnak –Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Study Wednesday, July 3rd, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The Bass Note of locally uniform geometries Various recent developments using the conformal bootstrap and random covers, can be viewed as the

Alessandro Giuliani – University Roma Tre Wednesday, June 26th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Electrical transport in 2D systems of interacting electrons: the Hall conductivity of the Haldane-Hubbard model Determining the effect of electron-electron interactions on transport coefficients

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Ivan Corwin– Columbia University Wednesday, June 19th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Extreme Diffusion or Was Einstein Wrong About Diffusion? In a system of many particles diffusing in a common environment, the

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Jane Kondev– Brandeis University Wednesday, June 12th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The Scale Invariant Cell Dr. Gulliver noticed 150 years ago that the size of

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY ------------------------------------------------------- Patrik Ferrari – University of Bonn Wednesday, June 5th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Limit processes for flat KPZ We consider stochastic growth models in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, like the asymmetric

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ Izaak Neri – King’s College London Wednesday, May 29th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Using martingales to study fluctuations of currents in first-passage problems of nonequilibrium

Daniel Ueltschi – University of Warwick Wednesday, May 22nd, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Around the exact solution of the 2D Ising model I will review a few recent developments about the two-dimensional Ising model. With Georgios Athanasopoulos,

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR ------------------------------------------------------- Edo Kussell – New York University Wednesday, May 15th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Evolutionary advantage of cell size control Molecular mechanisms that control cell growth and division enable bacteria and other microorganisms to

Paul J. Steinhardt – Princeton University Wednesday, May 8th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING How the Universe became smooth and flat and what will happen next In a talk intended for non-experts, I will discuss recent progress in

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

Sara A. Solla – Northwestern University Wednesday, May 1st, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING A mean-field theory for heterogeneous networks of spiking neurons Mean-field theory links the physiological properties of individual neurons to the emergent dynamics of neural

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.

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WEBINAR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Ilya A. Gruzberg – The Ohio State University Wednesday, April 24th, 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Multifractals and conformal invariance at Anderson transitions. Multifractal measures arise in such diverse subjects as dynamical chaos,