Past Events

Martin Hairer – Imperial College London Wednesday, November 15th, 10:45AM EST (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Stochastic Quantisation of Yang-Mills We report on recent progress on the problem of building a stochastic process that

Konstantin Mischaikow – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, November 9th, 12:00pm; Hill Center 705 Identifying Nonlinear Dynamics from Sparse Data There are a variety of statistical techniques that given sufficient time series identify explicit models, e.g. differential equations or maps, that

Thomas Spencer - Institute for Advanced Study Wednesday, November 8th, 10:45AM EST (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Phase transitions for spin systems with bond disorder This talk will review Ising and XY models with

John Anderson – Stanford Date/Time/Location Thursday, November 2nd, 12:00pm; Hill Center 705 Formation of shocks for the Einstein-Euler system In this talk, I hope to describe elements of proving a certain stable singularity formation result for the Einstein-Euler system, which

Nima Arkani-Hamed - Institute for Advanced Study Wednesday, November 1st, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Scattering amplitudes as a counting problem and the combinatorial geometry of fundamental physics I will describe a

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 Toan Nguyen – Penn State University Date/Time/LocationThursday, October

Smitha Vishveshwara - UIUC | Physics Wednesday, October 25th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING From nano-constrictions to event horizons: facets of the inverted harmonic oscillator Time and again, one encounters unifying physics

____________________________________________ 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 Michael Saks – Rutgers University Date/Time/LocationThursday, October

Ken Dill – Stony Brook Wednesday, October 18th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics: The principle of Maximum Caliber There has been an aspiration to find a principle of nonequilibrium

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 Alex Kontorovich – Rutgers University Date/Time/LocationThursday, October 12th,

Tomaž Prosen – University of Ljubljana Wednesday, October 11th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Exactly solved models of chaotic dynamics in quantum spin systems I will discuss the problem of 'unreasonable effectiveness'

Carl Bender – Washington University in St. Louis Wednesday, October 4th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Introduction to PT-symmetric quantum mechanics The average quantum physicist on the street would say that a

Alejandro Penuela – Potsdam University Date/Time/Location Thursday, September 28th, 12:00pm; Hill Center 705 Local foliations by critical surfaces of the Hawking energy and the small sphere limit The Hawking energy is one of the most famous quasi-local energies in general

Andrea Liu – University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, September 27th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Learning about learning with physical networks Unlike artificial neural networks, the brain does not require a computer in

Kirone Mallick – Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA, Universite Paris-Saclay (France) Wednesday, September 20th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) An exact solution of the macroscopic fluctuation theory for symmetric exclusion Gianni Jona-Lasinio and his collaborators have proposed

Fioralba Cakoni - Rutgers University Date/Time/LocationThursday, September 14th, 12:00pm; Hill Center 705 Transmission Eigenvalues and Non-Scattering Inhomogeneities Abstract: A perplexing question in scattering theory is whether there are incoming time harmonic waves, at particular frequencies, that are not scattered by

Thierry Bodineau – Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France Wednesday, September 13th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Stochastic dynamics and the Polchinski equation: an introduction I am going to present a renormalisation

Marc Mézard - Bocconi University, Milano Wednesday, September 6th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Matrix Factorization with Neural Networks The factorization of a large matrix into the product of two matrices is

Cristopher Moore - Santa Fe Institute Wednesday, August 30th, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The physics of inference, phase transitions, and networks Finding patterns in data is a lot like finding ground

John Cardy - All Souls College, University of Oxford Wednesday, August 23rd, 10:45AM EDT (Zoom meeting starts at 10:30 EDT) CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Dimensional reduction in the random field Ising model revisited Many years ago, it was suggested