Date Nov 8, 2018, 4:00 pm – 4:00 pm Location Jadwin A10 Audience A free lecture open to the public. Share on X Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Speaker Hugo Duminil Copin Affiliation IHES Presentation "Probabilistic Approach to Critical Phenomena in Statistical Physics" Details Event Description The talk will present some of the recent progress in mathematical studies of critical phenomena of classical statistical mechanical systems. Through the relation of quantum systems to classical systems in d+1 dimensions, some of these new results also yield new understanding of the ground states of a class of quantum spin chains with a projection based Hamiltonian. Recording of Professor Duminil-Copin's talk: http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/v5cu2 Twitter: #PrincetonPhyColloq Sponsor Department of Physics