Events

This talk will introduce an overview of some of the most important concepts and ideas from geometry and topology and then describe the recent interplay between these mathematical subjects and high energy theoretical physics, interactions that have been of a fundamentally different nature from earlier ones.

Humanity has pondered the meaning and utility of randomness for millennia. A computational theory of randomness, developed in the past three decades, reveals (perhaps counterintuitively) that very little is lost in such deterministic or weakly random worlds. In this talk, Avi Wigderson will explain the main ideas and results of this theory.

Katepalli Sreenivasan will describe what is known about the convective phenomena in the sun, using results from basic turbulence modeling, numerical simulations, as well as helioseismology.

In this lecture, Dr. Andrea Ghez will discuss the latest developments in the study of black holes, specifically how the environment around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is quite different than astronomers expected. She will also describe how studying the orbits of stars at the galactic center could improve our understanding of gravity.

In this lecture, Eric Betzig will describe advanced optical tools being developed to help scientists delve deeper into the complexity of biological systems.

In this lecture, Alexei Borodin will illustrate how these two concepts work together in examples from random matrices to random interface growth.