Past Events

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Jul 08 2026

Itamar Procaccia - Amorphous Solids: More than Meets the Eye

Information: Wednesday, July 8, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; Zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Itamar Procaccia - Weizmann Insitute Wednesday, July 8, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT Amorphous Solids: More than Meets the Eye Understanding the mechanical response of amorphous solids, like glasses and granular media, requires considerations that go

Jul 01 2026

Michael Shelley - Modeling chromatin as an active polymer melt

Information: Wednesday, July 1, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; Zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Michael Shelley - Flatiron Institute & NYU Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT Modeling chromatin as an active polymer melt In this talk I'll discuss a line of work wherein chromatin in the nucleus

Jun 24 2026

Robert McCann - Trading linearity for ellipticity: a low regularity Lorentzian splitting theorem

Information: Wednesday, June 24, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; Zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Robert McCann – University of Toronto Wednesday, June 24, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT Trading linearity for ellipticity: a low regularity Lorentzian splitting theorem While Einstein's theory of gravity is formulated in a smooth setting, the

Jun 17 2026

Doyne Farmer – Quantitative complexity economics: A revolution in the making

Information: Wednesday, June 17, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; Zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Doyne Farmer – Oxford University Wednesday, June 17, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT Quantitative complexity economics: A revolution in the making Mainstream economic theory follows a standard template that I will review in this talk. Complexity

Jun 10 2026

Percy Deift - Universality for the Toda algorithm to compute the eigenvalues of a random matrix

Information: Wednesday, June 10, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; Zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Percy Deift – NYU Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT Universality for the Toda algorithm to compute the eigenvalues of a random matrix CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING We consider the Toda algorithm to

Jun 03 2026

Nima Arkani-Hamed - Scattering amplitudes and the emergence of dual particles and strings in kinematic space

Information: Wednesday, June 3, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; Zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Nima Arkani-Hamed – IAS Wednesday, June 3, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT Scattering amplitudes and the emergence of dual particles and strings in kinematic space CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING

May 27 2026

Ned Wingreen - Collective dynamics in B cell affinity maturation

Information: Wednesday, May 27, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Ned Wingreen – Princeton University Wednesday, May 27, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Collective dynamics in B cell affinity maturation In the humoral immune response, B cells that produce high-affinity antibodies

May 20 2026

Jason Kim – Modeling the Geometry of Thought with Curvature Regularized Neural Networks

Information: Wednesday, May 20, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; Zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Jason Kim – Cornell University Wednesday, May 20, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT Modeling the Geometry of Thought with Curvature Regularized Neural Networks CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING When a mouse perceives a hawk's shadow, it

May 13 2026

Uzy Smilansky - The Lyapunov exponent of a quantum Hamiltonian - a graph theoretical and semi-classical approach

Information: Wednesday, May 13, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Uzy Smilansky – Weizmann Institute Wednesday, May 13, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT The Lyapunov exponent of a quantum Hamiltonian - a graph theoretical and semi-classical approach CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING In the first part

May 10 2026

130th Statistical Mechanics Conference

Information: Sunday, May 10, 2026 - Tuesday, May 12, 2026; 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM; Event Type: Statistical Mechanics Conference; Event Short Description
130th Statistical Mechanics Conference Sunday May 10 2026 - Tuesday May 12 2026 at 0800am - 0500pm nbspHill Center 100 Frelinghuysen Road Room 116 Piscataway NJ nbsp Celebrating the achievements of our guests of honor Michael Loss Marc Mzardnbsp Subir

May 06 2026

Roland Bauerschmidt – Probabilistic path integrals and massive QFT

Information: Wednesday, May 6, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Roland Bauerschmidt – NYU Wednesday, May 6, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT Probabilistic path integrals and massive QFT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING The talk reviews examples of probabilistically defined quantum fields theories which have a

Apr 30 2026

Luc Rey-Bellet - Proximal optimal transport divergences for generative modeling and sampling.

Information: Thursday, April 30, 2026; 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM; Hill 705; Event Type: Mathematical Physics In Person Seminar; Event Short Description
Luc Rey-Bellet – UMASS Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 30, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Proximal optimal transport divergences for generative modeling and sampling. The motivation for this work comes from generative modeling and sampling problems where the target distributions are

Apr 29 2026

Steven Girvin - Quantum Signal Processing: Making Schrödinger Cats and Other Exotic States of Microwave Photons

Information: Wednesday, April 29, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Steven Girvin – Yale University Wednesday, April 29, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Quantum Signal Processing: Making Schrödinger Cats and Other Exotic States of Microwave Photons The Schrödinger Cat idea was

Apr 23 2026

Alex Kontorovich - Arithmetic Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds

Information: Thursday, April 23, 2026; 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM; Hill 705; Event Type: Mathematical Physics In Person Seminar; Event Short Description
Alex Kontorovich - Rutgers Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 23, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Arithmetic Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds A construction due to Thurston assigns a hyperbolic 3-manifold to any Euclidean polyhedron. A basic question is to determine which such are arithmetic.

Apr 22 2026

John Paul Barton – Statistical models to interpret and predict pathogen evolution

Information: Wednesday, April 22, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
John Paul Barton – University of Pittsburgh Wednesday, April 22, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT Statistical models to interpret and predict pathogen evolution Pathogen evolution is complex. Viruses must mutate constantly to escape from human immune

Apr 16 2026

Lawrence Frolov - Overcoming the arrival time quantum Zeno effect

Information: Thursday, April 16, 2026; 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM; Hill 705; Event Type: Mathematical Physics In Person Seminar; Event Short Description
Lawrence Frolov – Rutgers Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 16, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Overcoming the arrival time quantum Zeno effect In classical mechanics, there is a conceptually clear method for computing the time at which a particle will arrive

Apr 15 2026

Mehran Kardar - Life on a Noisy Seascape: Extinction, Growth, and Diversity

Information: Wednesday, April 15, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; Zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Mehran Kardar - MIT Wednesday, April 15, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Life on a Noisy Seascape: Extinction, Growth, and Diversity Populations and communities rarely evolve in static environments; their fitness

Apr 09 2026

David Huse - Thermal first-order phase transitions and the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis

Information: Thursday, April 9, 2026; 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM; Hill 705; Event Type: Mathematical Physics In Person Seminar; Event Short Description
David Huse – Princeton University Date/Time/Location Thursday, April 9, 2026, 12:10 pm; Hill Center 705 Thermal first-order phase transitions and the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis A many-body system with a thermal first-order phase transition exhibits an extensive discontinuity in the energy

Apr 08 2026

Marc Mézard - How diffusion theory is used to produce fake data

Information: Wednesday, April 8, 2026; 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM; Zoom; Event Type: Mathematical Physics Webinar; Event Short Description
Marc Mézard - Bocconi University, Milano Wednesday, April 8, 2026 Zoom opens: 10:30AM EDT Seminar begins: 10:45AM EDT CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING How diffusion theory is used to produce fake data Generative diffusion, in which one trains an algorithm

Apr 01 2026

Konstantin Mischaikow - Rigorously Characterizing Dynamics with Machine Learning

Information: Wednesday, April 1, 2026; 12:10 AM - 1:10 PM; Hill 705; Event Type: Mathematical Physics In Person Seminar; Event Short Description
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

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