Past Events

Senya Shlosman – BIMSA and Krichever Center of Advanced Studies Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar Begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING KPZ scaling and the Tracy-Widom distribution in the 3D Ising model The famous

Camillo De Lellis – Institute for Advanced Study Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar Begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Besicovitch's 1/2 problem and linear programming In 1928 Besicovitch formulated the following conjecture. Let E

Sharon Glotzer – University of Michigan Wednesday, May 14th, 2025 Zoom opens: 10:30AM DST Seminar Begins: 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING A Classical Density Functional Theory of Entropic Ordering in Colloidal Crystals A central paradigm of science, chemical

Seungki Kim - University of Cincinnati Date/Time/Location Thursday, May 8th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 A physical study of the LLL algorithm The Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) algorithm is a celebrated and fundamental method of lattice reduction, which finds in polynomial

Udo Seifert – University of Stuttgart Wednesday, May 7th, 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Universal Bounds on Entropy Production from Waiting-Time Distributions Entropy production is a defining feature of non-equilibrium systems, yet directly measuring it remains difficult—especially when

Pablo Sartori – Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine Wednesday, April 30th, 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Accurate self-assembly in a complex energy landscape Like the letters in the alphabet forming words, reusing components is an efficient strategy for

Herbert Spohn – Technical University Munich Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 24th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Universality classes for coupled Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equations Considered is the KPZ equation with two components, constrained to be symmetric under exchange. This model is of

Raissa D'Souza – UC Davis Wednesday, April 23rd , 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Self-organized criticality on networks: from black swans to dragon kings The paradigm of self-organized criticality is a celebrated concept in statistical physics. A classic

Di Fang – Duke University Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 17th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Time-dependent Hamiltonian Simulation: Quantum Algorithm and Superconvergence Simulation of quantum dynamics, emerging as the original motivation for quantum computers, is widely viewed as one of

Herbert Spohn – Technical University Munich Wednesday, April 16th , 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Random matrix theory and integrable many-particle systems In our context integrable systems are characterized by possessing a Lax matrix. If the initial data

Sagun Chanillo– Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 10th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Rayleigh-Benard Convection The Rayleigh-Benard Equations are a model for the study of Convection in Fluids. Over the last 75 years, a lot of effort has gone

David Wales – University of Cambridge Wednesday, April 9th , 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Energy landscapes: from molecules and nanodevices to machine learning The potential energy landscape provides a conceptual and computational framework for investigating structure, dynamics

Serena Cenatiempo - Gran Sasso Science Institute Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Ground State Energy of Dilute Bose Gases: The Case of Hard Spheres In recent years, there has been substantial progress in the mathematical

Antti Kupiainen – University of Helsinki Wednesday, April 2nd , 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Wess-Zumino-Witten models and path integrals The Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) model is a 2 dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) . In this talk I will

Bernard Derrida – Collège de France and ENS Paris Wednesday, March 26th , 10:45AM DST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Overlaps in spin glasses and models of evolution Overlaps play a central role in the theory of spin glasses. In

Jim Hudspeth – Rockefeller University Wednesday, March 19th , 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The physiology and physics of hearing: How the ear's works work As the gateway to human communication, the sense of hearing is of enormous

Thomas Chen – University of Texas at Austin Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 13th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Emergence of quantum Boltzmann dynamics in boson and fermion gases This talk presents some recent results regarding the emergence of quantum Boltzmann

Michael Aizenman– Princeton University Wednesday, March 12th , 10:45AM EST CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Entropy of (quantum) entanglement in pure states of rapid decorrelation The entropy of the restriction of a pure quantum state to a subsystem is a

Alexandre V. Morozov – Rutgers University Date/Time/Location Thursday, March 6th, 2025, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Evolution of cooperativity in the game of Prisoner's Dilemma Complex life would be impossible without cooperation at all levels of biological organization: genes cooperate