Events Archive

Events Archive

Prof. Zackaria Chacko-Univ. of Md.-TBA

Prof. Zackaria Chacko-Univ. of Md.-TBA
Thu, Nov 11, 2010, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm


Birgit Kauffmann

Birgit Kauffmann
Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Title: Bethe-Ansatz for the two species totally asymmetric diffusion Model

Clement Hongler (Columbia University) "The energy density field of the Ising model"

Clement Hongler (Columbia University) "The energy density field of the Ising model"
Tue, Nov 9, 2010, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
We consider the planar Ising model on bounded domains from a conformal invariance point of view. We are interested in the scaling limit of the model at critical temperature. Physics theories, notably Conformal Field Theory, predict the existence of two conformal local fields describing the model in the continuum: the spin and the energy density.

Nick Warner

Nick Warner
Mon, Nov 8, 2010, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
NOTE: Please notice the special start time. Speaker: Nick Warner Prof. at University of Southern California Title: Microstate Geometries: where the most semi-classical bodies are buried

Clay Cordova

Clay Cordova
Mon, Nov 1, 2010, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Speaker: Clay Cordova Affiliation: Harvard University Title: T-Branes

Eugene Demler

Eugene Demler
Mon, Nov 1, 2010, 1:15 pm to 6:00 pm
Title: Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of artificial matter

Nikita Nekrasov

Nikita Nekrasov
Fri, Oct 29, 2010, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Speaker: Nikita Nekrasov Affiliation: IHES Title: The classical geometry of quantum integrability from susy gauge theory Abstract: TBA

Aldo Antognini, Max Planck Institut fur Quantenoptik and ETH,"The proton radius puzzle"

Aldo Antognini, Max Planck Institut fur Quantenoptik and ETH,"The proton radius puzzle"
Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
At the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, we have recently measured the 2S-2P transition frequency (Lamb shift) in muonic hydrogen with 15 ppm precision by means of laser spectroscopy. From this measurement we have determined the rms charge radius of the proton.

Dr. Surjeet Rajendran-Johns Hopkins-“ Observing the Dimensionality of Our Parent Vacuum

David Ruelle, IHES, France

David Ruelle, IHES, France
Wed, Oct 27, 2010, 2:00 pm to Fri, Oct 8, 2010, 6:00 pm
Title: Characterization of Lee-Yang polynomials Abstract: I shall give a characterization of the multi-affine polynomials in n variables that occur in the proof of the Lee-Yang Circle Theorem.

David Ruelle, IHES, France

David Ruelle, IHES, France
Wed, Oct 27, 2010, 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Title: Characterization of Lee-Yang polynomials AAbstract: I shall give a characterization of the multi-affine polynomials in n variables that occur in the proof of the Lee-Yang Circle Theorem.

Idan Oren (The Weizmann Institute) Trace Formulas for Large Random d-Regular Graphs

Idan Oren (The Weizmann Institute) Trace Formulas for Large Random d-Regular Graphs
Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 4:30 pm to Sun, Sep 26, 2010, 6:30 pm
Trace formulas for d-regular graphs are derived and used to express the spectral density in terms of the periodic walks on the graphs under consideration. The trace formulas depend on a parameter (w) which can be tuned continuously to assign different weights to different periodic orbit contributions.

Idan Oren (The Weizmann Institute) "Trace Formulas for Large Random d-Regular Graphs"

Idan Oren (The Weizmann Institute) "Trace Formulas for Large Random d-Regular Graphs"
Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Trace formulas for d-regular graphs are derived and used to express the spectral density in terms of the periodic walks on the graphs under consideration. The trace formulas depend on a parameter (w) which can be tuned continuously to assign different weights to different periodic orbit contributions.

John Davey

John Davey
Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 12:40 pm to 1:40 pm
Speaker: John Davey Imperial college, London Title: Orbifolds and Partition Functions Abstract: I will present some methods that have been developed to construct and enumerate abelian orbifolds of complex spaces. I will also talk about some of the number theoretic ideas that have helped us tackle this problem.

Antal Jevicki

Antal Jevicki
Mon, Oct 25, 2010, 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm
Speaker: Antal Jevicki Affiliation: Brown Title: COLLECTIVE FIELD MAPPING OF HIGHER SPIN ADS GRAVITY

Ian Spielman, NIST

Ian Spielman, NIST
Mon, Oct 25, 2010, 1:15 pm to 6:00 pm
Title: "A Bose-Einstein condensate subject to synthetic gauge fields"

Paul Chesler

Paul Chesler
Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Speaker: Paul Chesler (MIT) Title: Holography and the collision of gravitational waves in asymptotically AdS_5 Abstract:

Daniel Jafferis

Daniel Jafferis
Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Speaker: Daniel Jafferis Affiliation: IAS Title: The Exact Superconformal R-symmetry in 3d Extremizes Z

Ofer Firstenberg

Ofer Firstenberg
Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Speaker: Ofer Firstenberg Affiliation: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Title: Diffusion and Diffraction of Polaritons in Atomic Media Abstract: We investigate the non-local optical response in a medium of diffusing atoms. The two-photon spectra exhibit motional broadening and narrowing

Marc Mezard, CNRS - Université Paris Sud-"Glassy phase transitions in hard computer science problems"

Marc Mezard, CNRS - Université Paris Sud-"Glassy phase transitions in hard computer science problems"
Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Given a large set of discrete variables, and some constraints between them, is there a way to choose the variables so that all constraints are satisfied?This "satisfiability" problem is one of the most fundamental complex optimization problems. It also has very concrete applications, for instance in computer chip testing or in error correcting...

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