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In recent years, quantum information theory (QIT) has become a melting pot between disparate branches of physics. Within the last decade, tools and techniques from QIT are bringing new perspectives into fields such as quantum field theory (QFT) and...

Abstract: Metasurfaces are surfaces with microscopic objects on top, which can yield unexpected physical properties like, bending of light, relocating sound peaks, flat lenses, color printing, holograms and cloaking devices. In this talk we consider...

Gauge-theoretic moduli spaces are often noncompact, and various techniques have been introduced to study their asymptotic features. Seminal work by Taubes shows that in many situations where the failure of compactness for sequences of solutions is...

Abstract: The tangent bundle on a smooth manifold is, in a sense, sufficient structure todevelop Lagrangian mechanics. In a famous note from 1901, Poincare reformulated Lagrangian mechanics by replacing the tangent bundle with a Lie algebra acting on...

In this talk I will present a study on the Gromov's hyperbolicity of some product of graphs. The presentation is based on joint works that studied hyperbolicity of the lexicographic product, tensor product and graph join of two graphs, respectively...

Abstract: The derivation of a Boltzmann equation from first principles has been a long-standing problem. In a seminal work, Lanford showed the validity of a classical Boltzmann equation for an ideal dilute hard-sphere gas for times up to one third of...

Abstract: The Jones polynomial of a knot, discovered in 1983, is a very subtle invariant that is related to a great deal of mathematics and physics. This talk will be an overview of quantum field theories in dimensions 2, 3, 4 and 5 that are...

Abstract: Given a family G of graphs on a common vertex set X, we say that G is rainbow connected if for every vertex pair u, v ∈ X, there exists a path from u to v that uses at most one edge from each graph of G. We consider the case that G contains...

The activation of T cells, key players of the immune system, involves local evacuation of molecules (phosphatases) from the nearby region of the cell surface, segregating them from the T cell receptor. What drives this evacuation? This phenomenon...