University of Calfornia, Riverside
Mathematics 260 Seminar
Probability and Mathematical Physics
University of Calfornia, Riverside
Mathematics 260 Seminar
Probability and Mathematical Physics
About the Seminar
Fall, 2025
Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00pm - 5:50pm.
Room: Skye 347.
Description
The seminar is a working research seminar in mathematical physics, the purpose of which is to provide a platform for discussing ideas, forming collaborations, and learning topics that are relevant to speakers’ current research activities. There will be both technical research talks that involve active research projects and talks that are primarily scholarly. The main goal of the scholarly talks is to explore the connection between physical experiments and the mathematical structures that model them.
Mathematical physics is a very broad and interdisciplinary area of study and different quarters will have different emphases. Typically, the mathematical areas that we study involve probability and analysis, with a focus on: finite approximation; invariance principles in probability; properties of path measures; functional integrals; distributions; and the spectra of operators. However, these areas intersect with many different areas of study. We will often discuss the intersections with: operator alegebras; PDE; SPDE; complex, Riemannian, semi-Riemannian, and symplectic geometry; Lie theory; representation theory; and applied category theory.
Format
Talks are typically 1 hour 50 minutes. The goal is to have a standard 50 minute presentation but without any time pressure to adhere to, and with the expectation that we will spend about half of the seminar in discussion. This is a working seminar that involves a lot of discussion. External speakers who wish to give shorter talks are, of course, cordially invited to do so. There is no expectation that an external speaker will spend this much time in the seminar, although they are certainly invited to do so. Graduate student members of the research group and or seminar are, however, required to participate fully in the discussion format of the seminar.