Past Events

Konstantin Mischaikow - Rutgers Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 2, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Rigorously Characterizing Dynamics with Machine Learning The identification of dynamics from time series data is a problem of general interest. It is well established that dynamics

Avi Wigderson - IAS Wednesday, April 1, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The Value of Errors in Proofs (a fascinating journey from Turing’s 1936 R != RE to the 2020 breakthrough

Sanchit Chaturvedi - NYU Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 26, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Linear stability of traveling Maxwellians for Landau equation with very soft potentials In this talk, I will discuss the problem of linear stability of traveling Maxwellians

Karin A Dahmen - University of Illinois Wednesday, March 25, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT Universal Avalanches and Prediction: from Nanoindentation and the Brain to Earthquakes and Stars? Slowly-compressed nano-crystals, bulk metallic glasses, rocks, granular materials,

Edward Witten - IAS Wednesday, March 18, 2026 Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Wormholes “Wormholes'' are shortcuts between distant regions of space or of spacetime. After recalling the Einstein-Rosen bridge in Schwarzschild spacetime as a classic

Valerio Lucarini - University of Leicester Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 12, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Linear Response and Optimal Fingerprinting for Nonautonomous Systems We provide a link between response theory, pullback measures, and optimal fingerprinting method that paves the

Remi Monasson - LPENS Wednesday, March 11, 2026 Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING How can neural networks compute with few resources? Some insights from neuroscience. Despite the unsustainable growth in energy consumption by artificial intelligence models

Federico Bonetto – Georgia Institute of Technology Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 5, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Approach to equilibrium for a particle interacting with a harmonic thermal bath We study the long time evolution of the position-position correlation function

Robert Ziff - University of Michigan Wednesday, March 4, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EST Seminar begins: 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Exact results and universality in anisotropic percolation Fundamental concepts in percolation include the phase transition, critical exponents,

Matt Young - Rutgers Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 26, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Eisenstein series and equidistribution Quantum chaos predicts that high energy eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a negatively curved surface should exhibit chaotic behavior. For the modular

Martin Zirnbauer - Institute for Theoretical Physics Cologne Wednesday, February 25, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EST Seminar begins: 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Is conformal symmetry violated at Anderson transitions? Conformal symmetry has been established as a powerful

Natan Andrei – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 19, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Thermodynamics in a split Hilbert space: Quantum impurity in interacting environments A rich phase diagram arises when a quantum spin impurity is placed in an

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud - Capital Fund Management & Academie des Sciences Wednesday, February 18, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EST Seminar begins: 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Random Multiplicative Growth and Inequalities: A Rich Theoretical Framework Random multiplicative growth processes

Facundo Mémoli – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 12, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Distance distributions and inverse problems for metric measure spaces Many problems in data science—shape analysis, object recognition, and object classification—require comparing probability distributions that live

Daniel Stein - NYU Wednesday, February 11, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EST Seminar begins: 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Ground State Excitations and the Nature of the Spin Glass Phase The thermodynamics of spin glasses, and more generally

David Vanderbilt - Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, February 5, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Theory of adiabatic phonon-magnon coupling in magnetic materials Conventional approaches for computing lattice dynamics do not fully account for the effects of time-reversal symmetry breaking

David Pine - NYU Wednesday, February 4, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EST Seminar begins: 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Self-assembly of colloidal diamond and related structures A long-standing challenge in 3D photonics has been the self-assembly of colloidal

Jeffry Kahn – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, January 29th, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Thresholds for graph containment Thresholds have been central to the study of random graphs and related structures since its initiation by Erdos and Renyi in

Vojkan Jaksic - Politecnico di Milano Wednesday, January 28, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EST Seminar begins: 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Remarks on Approach to Equilibrium in Quantum Spin Systems The Zeroth (or “minus First”) law of thermodynamics

Valerio Lucarini – University of Leicester Wednesday, January 21, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EST Seminar begins: 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Detecting and Attributing Change in Climate and Complex Systems: Foundations of Optimal Fingerprinting via Response Theory Detection