Martin A. Fisher School of Physics

Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics

2022-2023

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  • Lecture I: Tuesday, March 28th at 4pm in Abelson 131
    "The accelerating universe and rigid Einstein manifolds"
  • Lecture II: Wednesday, March 29th at 11am in Abelson 333
    "The accelerating universe and integrable deformations of quantum field theories"
  • Lecture III: Thursday, March 30th at 10am in Abelson 333
    "Optimization and sampling from energy-conserving Hamiltonian dynamical systems"

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2018-2019

  • Lecture I: Multiple Zeta Values and Mixed Tate Motives over ℤ

  • Lecture II: Motivic Г-functions

  • Lecture III: Relative Completions

2017-2018

  • Lecture I: Sloppy Models, Differential Geometry, and How Science Works

  • Lecture II: Crackling Noise

  • Lecture III: Normal Form for Renormalization Groups: The Framework for the Logs

2016-2017

  • Lecture I: Algebraic curves and differential equations

  • Lecture II: Generalizing hyperbolic surfaces

  • Lecture III: Higgs bundles and mirror symmetry

2015-2016

  • Lecture 1: A physicist under the spell of Ramanujan and moonshine

  • Lecture 2: Mock modular forms in mathematics and physics

  • Lecture 3: Umbral Moonshine

2014-2015

  • Lecture 1: The topology of random real hypersurfaces and percolation

  • Lecture 2: Nodal domains for Maass (modular) forms

  • Lecture 3: Families of zeta functions: their symmetries and applications

2014

  • Lecture 1: Strings and the Magic of Extra Dimensions

  • Lecture 2: Recent Progress in Topological Strings I

  • Lecture 3: Recent Progress in Topological Strings II

  • Science Blog article

2012

  • Lectures: Integrable Systems, Operator Determinants and Probabilistic Models

2011

  • Lecture I: Models and Behavior of the Internet, the World Wide Web

  • Lecture II: Convergent Sequences of Networks

2010

  • Lecture I: Differential K-theory and Dirac operators

  • Lecture II: Twisted K-theory and loop groups

  • Lecture III: Dirac charge quantization in string theory

2009

Leo Kadanoff (University of Chicago)
  • Lecture I: Making a Splash, Breaking a Neck: The Development of Complexity in Fluids

  • Lecture II: The Good the Bad and the Awful-- Scientific Simulation and Prediction

  • Lecture III: Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions of Toeplitz Matrices

2008

  • Lecture: The Algebra of Random Surfaces

2007

  • Lecture I: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Modern Mathematics

  • Lecture II: The Quantum Geometry of Topological String Theory

  • Lecture III: Quantum Field Theory, D-Modules and Integrable Systems