Previous Special Year Seminar

Feb
28
2014

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Many-body Anderson localization
David Huse
11:00am|S-101

I will review some aspects of many-body Anderson localization. Many-body localized systems have a type of integrable Hamiltonian, with an extensive set of operators that are localized in real-space that each commute with the Hamiltonian. The...

Feb
27
2014

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

From High Dimensional Data to Big Data
Han Liu
2:00pm|S-101

We introduce a new family of robust semiparametric methods for analyzing large, complex, and noisy datasets. Our method is based on the transelliptical distribution family which assumes that the variables follow an elliptical distribution after a...

Feb
27
2014

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Quantum Hall Phases, plasma analogy and incompressibility estimates
Jakob Yngvason
11:00am|S-101

When a 2D many-particle system with a repulsive interaction is subject to a sufficiently strong magnetic field, that can also be produced by rapid rotation, strongly correlated many-body states in the lowest Landau level LLL may emerge. In the talk...

Feb
25
2014

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Almost Global Solutions for Incompressible Elasticity in 2D
3:00pm|S-101

The systems of elasticity in 2D are wave-type equations with two different propagation speeds at a linear level. Due to the incompressibility, the system is nonlocal and is not Lorentz invariant, but it is inherently linear degenerate. We talk about...

Feb
25
2014

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Nearly time-periodic water waves
Jon Wilkening
2:00pm|S-101

We compute new families of time-periodic and quasi-periodic solutions of the free-surface Euler equations involving extreme standing waves and collisions of traveling waves of various types. A Floquet analysis shows that many of the new solutions...

Feb
19
2014

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Hartree-Fock dynamics for weakly interacting fermions
2:00pm|S-101

According to first principle quantum mechanics, the evolution of N fermions (particles with antisymmetric wave function) is governed by the many body Schroedinger equation. We are interested, in particular, in the evolution in the mean field regime...

Feb
18
2014

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

3/4-Fractional superdiffusion in a system of harmonic oscillators perturbed by a conservative noise
Cédric Bernardin
2:00pm|S-101

We consider an harmonic chain perturbed by an energy conserving noise and show that after a space-time rescaling the energy-energy correlation function is given by the solution of a skew-fractional heat equation with exponent 3/4.

Feb
11
2014

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Log-integrability of Rademacher Fourier series and applications to random analytic functions
2:00pm|S-101

We prove that the logarithm of Fourier series with random signs is integrable to any positive power. We use this result to prove the angular equidistribution of the zeros of entire functions with random signs (and more generally the almost sure...