Previous Special Year Seminar

Oct
15
2013

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Dynamical phase transitions, eigenstate thermalization, and Schrodinger cats within the ferromagnetic phase of an infinite-range quantum Ising model
David A. Huse
2:00pm|S-101

An isolated quantum many-body system may be a reservoir that thermalizes its constituents. I will explore an example of the interplay of this thermalization and spontaneous symmetry-breaking, in the ferromagnetic phase of an infinite-range quantum...

Oct
09
2013

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Macdonald processes II
2:00pm|S-101

Our goal is to explain how certain basic representation theoretic ideas and constructions encapsulated in the form of Macdonald processes lead to nontrivial asymptotic results in various `integrable'; probabilistic problems. Examples include dimer...

Oct
08
2013

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Macdonald processes I
2:00pm|S-101

Our goal is to explain how certain basic representation theoretic ideas and constructions encapsulated in the form of Macdonald processes lead to nontrivial asymptotic results in various `integrable'; probabilistic problems. Examples include dimer...

Oct
03
2013

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Disorder-generated multifractals and random matrices: freezing phenomena and extremes
Yan Fyodorov
11:00am|S-101

I will start with discussing the relation between a class of disorder-generated multifractals and logarithmically-correlated random fields and processes. An important example of the latter is provided by the so-called "\(1/f\) noise" which, in...

Sep
26
2013

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Kinetic transport in quasicrystals
Jens Marklof
11:00am|West Bldg. Lect. Hall

Previous studies of kinetic transport in the Lorentz gas have been limited to cases where the scatterers are distributed at random (e.g. at the points of a spatial Poisson process) or at the vertices of a Euclidean lattice. In this talk I will...

Sep
20
2013

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Universal current fluctuations in non equilibrium systems
Bernard Derrida
4:00pm|S-101

Fluctuations of the current of one dimensional non equilibrium diffusive systems are well understood. After a short review of the one dimensional results, the talk will try to show that the statistics of these fluctuations are exactly the same in...