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Mathematical Physics Seminars and Workshops

Upcoming events:

Thursday, January the 26th at 13:30 in Terra (Dynamicum, 1st floor)
Sergej Zilitinkevich (University of Helsinki) :
"Turbulence closure problem for stably stratified geophysical flows: energetically consistent theory and a hierarchy of closure models for practical applications"
joint event with the ERC Project PBL-PMES

Wednesday, February the 15th at 14 in C123
Antti Kemppainen (University of Helsinki) :
"Convergence of percolation interface to SLE(6), Part II" (Abstract)

Wednesday, February the 22th at 14 in C123
Stefano Musacchio (CNRS, Universite' de Nice Sophia-Antipolis) :
"TBA" (Abstract)

Wednesday, February the 29th at 14 in C123
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi (University of Helsinki) :
"Optimal protocols in stochastic thermodynamics" (Abstract)

Wednesday, April the 18th at 14 in C123
Valeriy Klyatskin (A. M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics Russian Academy of Sciences) :
"On the criterion of stochastic structure formation in random media"

June 2012
Conference:
Conformal Invariance, Discrete Holomorphicity and Integrability

Journal Club spring 2011:

Thursday, August the 18th at 14 in B321
Antti Harju :
"Irreducible representations of U_q sl_2 at roots of unity"

For updates on other mathematical physics related seminars in the Kumpula campus please check:

Helsinki Institute of Physics seminar series
String Theory and Mathematical Physics
http://www.helsinki.fi/~tf_astpa/
High Energy and Cosmology seminar

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2012

Wednesday, February the 8th at 14 in C123
Antti Kemppainen (University of Helsinki) :
"Convergence of percolation interface to SLE(6), Part I" (Abstract)

Centre of Excellence in Analysis and
Dynamics Research and the Graduate School in Mathematics and its
Applications special event

Timo Seppäläinen ()University of Wisconsin)
will lecture the short course

"Directed polymers models"

Schedule: January 9-11, 14-16
Location: D123, Exactum Building.

2011

Wednesday, October the 19th at 14 in C123
Eunghyun Lee (University of Helsinki) :
"Current distribution for ASEP" (Abstract)

Wednesday, September the 21st at 14 in C123
Peter Howard (Texas A&M) :
"Phase-asymptotic stability of transition front solutions in Cahn-Hilliard equations and systems" (Abstract)

Centre of Excellence in Analysis and
Dynamics Research and the Graduate School in Mathematics and its
Applications special event

Tom Körner (Cambridge University)
will visit the mathematics department of the University of Helsinki
Weeks 37 and 38 and will lecture the crash course

"This sets and convolutions"

Abstract:
We know that if we convolve a function with itself
the result is smoother. But how much smoother can
it be? I shall develop the the tools from Fourier
analysis and probability theory which enable us to attack
this problem. We shall also look at, more or less,
related problems on Hausdorff dimension and
sets of multiplicity.

Schedule: Weeks 37 and 38, Monday 12-14, Tuesday 14-16 and Friday 12-14 (first lecture Monday 12.9 12-14, altogether 6 lectures,)
Location: D123U Exactum Building.

Wednesday, September the 28th at 14 in C123
Eunghyun Lee (University of Helsinki) :
"Coordinate Bethe ansatz in studying interacting particle systems" (Abstract)

Wednesday, September the 14th at 14 in C123
Maximilian Butz (Technische Universität München) :
"Kinetic limit for a wave equation in a randomly perturbed medium" (Abstract)

Wednesday, August the 31st at 13 in D123
"Summer student project review"

  • Marko Korhonen: "Simple Exclusion Process."
  • Rami Luisto : "Of the non-existence of BLD mappings between manifolds."
  • Anssi Mirka : "Energy Transport in the FPU chain."
  • Eveliina Peltola : "Monodromy of the hypergeometric equation (and related)."
  • Petri Tuisku : "Lattice models"
  • Janne Junnila : "Ergodic Theory and Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems."
  • Topi Talvitie : "Numerical attack to the norm of the Beurling transform."
  • Lauri Hitruhin : "On Julia set of polynomials and their Hausdorff dimension."

Wednesday, August the 24th at 14 in C123
Clément Hongler (Columbia University) :
"Energy density in the planar Ising model"

Wednesday, August the 17th at 14 in C123
Antti Knowles (Harvard University) :
"Spectral and eigenvector statistics of random matrices" (Abstract)

Centre of Excellence in Analysis and
Dynamics Research and the Graduate School in Mathematics and its
Applications special event

Pablo Shmerkin (University of Surrey)
will teach the mincourse
"Some recent connections between ergodic theory and geometric measure theory" (Abstract)

Schedule: Monday at 14-16; all other days at 10-12
Location: University of Oulu, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
(Pentti Kaiteran katu 1), lecture room M101
Contact: Maarit Järvenpää (maarit.jarvenpaa at oulu.fi)

Wednesday, June the 15th at 14 in C123
Dmitrii Kouznetsov (ILS Tokio) :
"Non-integer iterates of analytic functions" (Abstract)

Wednesday, June the 8th at 14 in C123
Ludvig Faddeev (Steklov Institute, St Petersburg) :
"Quantum Dilogarithm." (Abstract)

Wednesday, June the 1st at 14 in C123
Antonio Cordoba (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid) :
"Integral inequalities for singular integrals and formation of singularities in transport equations." (Abstract)

Monday, May the 30th at 14 in C123 (tentatively)*
Antonio Cordoba (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid) :
"Porous media: the Muskat and Hele-Shaw problems." (Abstract)

Wednesday, April the 27th at 14 in C123
Loïc Dubois (University of Helsinki) :
"A brownian limit perturbed by a microscopic potential." (Abstract)

Minicourse sponsored by the Erasums Exchange programme special Event

28-29.04.2011 Michal Hnatic the (Safarik University, Kosice), will lecture the short course:

"Field-theoretic methods in the models of developed turbulence."

Time and Place
28.04.2011 10:00-12:00 PHY D115 SH (Physicum)
29.04.2011 12:00-15:00 PHY D116 SH (Physicum)

Thursday, April the 14th at 14 in hall E207 Physicum
Sergej Zilitinkevich (Division of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Helsinki / Department of Meteorological Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute)
"The height of the atmospheric planetary boundary layer: state of the art, new developments, and remaining problems" (Abstract)
FMI-HU joint seminar (PBL-PMES Project seminar).

Wednesday, April the 13th at 14 in C123
Christian Webb (University of Helsinki) :
"A disordered system, a recursion relation, extreme value statistics and random measures." (Abstract)

Wednesday, March the 30th at 14 in C123
Miika Nikula (University of Helsinki) :
"Multifractal Analysis of Mandelbrot Cascade Measures." (Abstract)

Analysis and Dynamics CoE special Event

14-18.3.2011 Yuri Kuznetsov (University of Utrecht) will lecture the short course:

"Numerical bifurcation analysis"

Time and Place

Lectures: B120 Mon-Thu 10-12 and D123 Fri 10-12
Computer labs: C128 Mon-Wed and Fri 13-14, Thu 15-16

This intensive course presents modern numerical methods and software for bifurcation analysis of parameter-dependent systems of smooth autonomous ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The main problems are: How to continue equilibria and periodic orbits with respect to a parameter? How to compute stability boundaries of equilibria and periodic orbits (limit cycles) in the parameter space? How to predict qualitative changes in system's behavior (bifurcations) occurring at these boundaries? How to locate and continue homoclinic orbits to equilibria? Only the most efficient methods will be described, which are based on projection and bordering techniques and employ boundary value problems (BVPs). These methods have been recently implemented in MATCONT, an interactive MATLAB bifurcation software for ODEs. An integral part of the course are computer sessions at which the students will learn how to use the latest version of MATCONT. No preliminary knowledge of bifurcation theory is assumed.

Course homepage

Registration by email to Eva Kisdi, max 24 students

Analysis and Dynamics CoE special Event

9-11.2.2011 Patrik Ferrari (University of Bonn) will lecture
the short course:

"Random Matrices and Interacting Particle Systems"

Abstract:

Recently some remarkable connections have been found between the mathematical
structures of on the one hand some ensembles of random matrices and on the other
hand of certain interacting particle systems. The lectures give an introduction to
random matrices, particle systems and their connections.

1. Lecture Wednesday 9.2. 14-16 C123

Gaussian Unitary Ensemble of random matrices (GUE): eigenvalue distribution,
determinantal correlations and Hermite polynomials, interlacing structure in GUE
minors.

2. Lecture Thursday 10.2. 14-16 C123

Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process (TASEP): interlacing structure in
continuous time TASEP, determinantal correlations and Charlier polynomials.

3. Lecture Friday 11.2. 14-16 C123

2+1 dimensional anisotropic growth: particle dynamics, interface interpretation,
dynamics on random tiling, two projections: TASEP and random tiling, diffusion
scaling limit and GUE minors, discrete time and Aztec diamond.

2010

Wednesday, December the 15th at 14 in C123
Guido Boffetta (University of Turin):
"Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence in 3, 2 and 1 dimensions"

Wednesday, December the 1st at 14 in C123
Dmitry Chelkak (Steklov Institute):
"Critical 2D Ising model: interfaces and spinor martingale observables."

Wednesday, November the 17th at 13.00 in B120
Bruno Nachtergaele (UC Davis and Mittag-Leffler Institute):
"Local perturbations perturb locally."

Monday, November the 15th at 14 in B120
Antti Kemppainen (University of Helsinki)
"Informal discussion on conformal loop ensembles (continuation)"(Abstract)
The talk is based on Conformal Loop Ensembles: The Markovian Characterization by Scott Sheffield and Wendelin Werner.

Friday, October the 29th at 15 in B120
Hans Föllmer (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin )
"Risk, Model Risk, and Knightian Uncertainity"
seminar organized by the Finnish Mathematical Society Colloquium.

Monday, October the 25th at 14 in B120
Kalle Kytölä (University of Helsinki)
"Informal discussion on conformal loop ensembles (continuation)"

Analysis and Dynamics CoE special Event

18-22.10.2010 Michael Lacey (Georgia Institute of Technology) will lecture
the short course:

"An Introduction to Non-Homogeneous Harmonic Analysis"

Time and Place
mo 18.10 10-12
tu 19.10 14-16
we 20.10 14-16
th 21.10 12-14
fr 21.10 14-16

all lectures in B120 Exactum Building more info from the CoE web-pages

Wednesday, October the 13th at 14 in C123
Loïc Dubois (University of Helsinki):
"Complex cones and random product of operators."

Monday, October the 11th at 14 in B120
Kalle Kytölä (University of Helsinki) :
"Informal discussion on conformal loops (continuation)." (Abstract)

Wednesday, September the 29th at 14 in C123
Kalle Kytölä (University of Helsinki):
"Critical 2d Ising model with mixed boundary conditions."(Abstract)

Wednesday, October the 6th at 14 in C123
Jeremy Clark (University of Helsinki):
"Diffusive limit in a quantum linear Boltzmann equation." (Abstract)Wednesday, September the 8th at 14 in C123

Igor Rogachevskii (Ben Gurion University of the Negev):
"Transport of inertial particles in a stratified turbulence: theory, experiments and numerical simulations."
(joint seminar with  ERC Project PBL-PMES "Planetary Boundary Layers - Physics, Modeling and Role in Earth Systems)

Friday, September the 3rd at 14 in B321
Heikki Arponen:
"Kraichnan like ensembles and stratified flows"(Abstract)
(joint seminar with  ERC Project PBL-PMES "Planetary Boundary Layers - Physics, Modeling and Role in Earth Systems)

Thursday, September the 2nd at 14 in B321
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi:
"Cascades in 2d turbulence, an overview of some recent theoretical results." (Abstract)
joint seminar with  ERC Project PBL-PMES "Planetary Boundary Layers - Physics, Modeling and Role in Earth Systems)

Wednesday, June the 2nd at 14 in C123
Ludwig Faddeev (Russian Academy of Sciences):
"New variables for the Einstein theory of gravitation."
The talk is based on New variables for the Einstein theory of gravitation
and 3+1 decomposition in the new action for the Einstein Theory of Gravitation

Tuesday, June the 1st at 14 in C123
Antti Hellsten (FMI):
"Numerical experiments on strongly stratified homogeneous shear turbulence." (Abstract)

Friday, May the 14th at 14 in C124
Kostantin Izyurov (Geneva)
"Liouville Quantum Gravity and SLE Couplings"

Tuesday, May the 18th at 14 in C123
Massimo Vergassola (Institut Pasteur, Paris):
"Bacterial chemotaxis" (Abstract)

NOTE: Wednesday, May the 19th at 13.15 in Lecture hall T2, TKK Computer Science building,
(Konemiehentie 2, 02150, Espoo)
Massimo Vergassola will give the talk
"Infotaxis: searching without gradients." More info: from the TTK announcement page

20-21 May 2010

Scientific Advisory Board meeting of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Analysis and Dynamics
Talk and Event program

Wednesday, April the 21st at 14 in room D101 Physicum
S. Kauffman (FIDIPRO, University of Calgary, Santa Fe Institute)
"Mind, brain, consciousness, and the quantum observer: A speculative lecture"(Abstract)

Note: the same day (April 21) professor Kauffman will deliver another lecture:
"Beyond reductionism" at 18, Tieteiden talo, room 104, Kirkkokatu 6.

Wednesday, April the 14th at 14 in C123
Antti Kemppainen (Université Paris-Sud):
"Random curves, scaling limits and Loewner evolutions."(Abstract)

April 12 - 16: A&D CoE short course:
Mikhail Sodin (Tel Aviv University):
"Random complex zeroes and random nodal lines"(Abstract)

Time: April 12 - 16, 2010,
Places:
Monday 12.4. BK107 klo 10-12.
Tuesday 13.4. BK107 klo 12-14.
Wednesday 14.4. BK107 klo 10-12.
Thursday 15.4. C124 klo 12-14
Friday 16.4 C123 klo 14-16

March the 24th at 14 in C123
George Golitsyn (Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics):
"Some basic features of the stochastic processes and their revelation in turbulence, sea wind waves and geodynamics"

Wednesday, February the 3rd at 14 in C123
Jeremy Clark (KU Leuven):
"A central limit theorem for a periodic linear Boltzmann equation without friction."(Abstract)

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2009

Friday, December the 11th at 14 in B322
Sergej Zilitinkevich (Finnish Meteorological Institute):
"Recent developments in physics of atmospheric turbulence and planetary boundary layers (PBLs)"(Abstract)

Wednesday, December the 2nd at 14 in C123
Maximilian Butz (Technische Universität München):
"A quantum model for a particle source"(Abstract)

Wednesday, October the 21st at 14 in C123
S. Grigorian (Institute of Mechanics, Moscow University )
"On basic problems of the Earth atmosphere thermo-mechanics." (Abstract)

Friday October the 2nd, Center of Excellence in Analysis and Dynamics special seminars room C124
13.30 -14.30 Vincent Beffara (ENS, Lyon):
"2D statistical mechanics and random walks"
15.00-16.00 Stanislav Smirnov (Geneva): "Percolation and Black Noise"

Wednesday September the 23rd at 14 in C123
Carlos Mejia Monasterio (University of Helsinki):
"Nonequilibrium transport in classical and quantum low dimensional systems." (Abstract)

Wednesday September th 9th at 14 in C123
Loic Dubois (University of Helsinki):
"Complex cones and the speed of convergence in the Central Limit Theorem."

August 18th to 20th, mini-Course:
Timo Seppäläinen (University of Wisconsin)
"Fluctuations for particle systems in one dimension" (Abstract)
Lectures will be held:
i Tuesday, August 18th at 14 in C123
ii Wednesday, August 19th at 14 in C123
iii Thursday, August 20th at 14 in C123
The mini-course is based on chapters 2 and 5 of Seppäläinen's lecture notes

Thursday, August 13th at 14-16 in C123:
Mikko Stenlund, (Courant Institute)
"A new Central Limit Theorem for Sinai Billiards" (Abstract)

Wednesday May 13th at 14 in C123:
Emiliano de Simone
(Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki)
"Geometric shadowing in slow-fast Hamiltonian systems"(Abstract)

Wednesday April the 22nd at 14 in C123:
Samuli Siltanen (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki)
"The inverse scattering method for the Novikov-Veselov equation"(Abstract)

Wednesday April the 8th at 14 in C123:
Jani Lukkarinen (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki)
"Decay of equilibrium time correlations in a weakly nonlinear Schrödinger equation"(Abstract)

Monday, March 30th at 14 in C323:
Kalle-Antti Suominen (University of Turku)
"Introduction to quantum information and quantum computing, and non-Markovian dynamics of quantum systems"(Abstract)

Wednesday, March 4th at 14 in C123:
Angelo Vulpiani (Università di Roma "La Sapienza")
"Fluctuation-Dissipation: Response Theory in Statistical Physics"(Abstract)

Tuesday, March 3rd at 14 in C123:
Alfonso Sorrentino (Université de Paris-Dauphine)
"On the integrability of Tonelli Hamiltonians"(Abstract)

Monday, February 23rd at 14 in D123:
Imre Tóth (Technical University of Budapest)
"Correlation decay in multidimensional dispersing billiards"(Abstract)

Thursday, January 22nd at 14 in C123:
Carlos Mejia Monasterio (Institute for Complex Systems, CNR - Italy)
"A stochastic model of anomalous heat transport."
(Abstract)

Wednesday, January 7, at 14.15 in C123:
Kalle Kytölä (Universite de Geneve):
"On staggered Virasoro modules."

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2008

Wednesday, December 10th at 14 in C123:
Konstantinos Zygalakis (Cambridge, DAMTP)
"Effective Diffusive Behavior for Passive Tracers and Inertial Particles: Homogenization and Numerical Algorithms."(Abstract)

Monday, November 10th at 14 in C129:
Laurent Marin (Université d'Orléans)
"Dynamical bounds for Schrodinger operators assiociated to Sturmian potential.
(Abstract)

Wednesday, November 5th at 14 in C123:
Wojciech De Roeck (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
"Diffusion in quantum system-reservoir models.(Abstract)

Wednesday, October 22nd at 14 in C123:
Erik Aurell (KTH Stockholm and FiDiPro of the Academy of Finland)
"Kinetic theory of (simple) Distributed Information Systems."
(Abstract)

Monday, October 20th at 14 in C123:
Benjamin Schlein (Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, UK)
" Local semicircle law and level repulsion for Wigner random matrices.(Abstract)

Wednesday, October 15th at 14 in C123:
Antti Kemppainen (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki)
"Introduction to Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE).(Abstract)

Monday, October 13th at 14 in C123:
Antti Knowles (ETH Zürich)
"Limiting dynamics of large quantum systems and Egorov-type theorems."
(Abstract)

Wednesday, October 8th at 13 in B120 (continues at 14 in C123):
Jogia Bandyopadhyay (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki)
"Optimal Concentration for SU(1,1) Coherent State Transforms and an Analogue of the Lieb-Wehrl Conjecture for SU(1,1).(Abstract)

Thursday, August 21th at 14 in C123:
Jani Lukkarinen (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki)
"Not to normal order - Notes on the kinetic limit for weakly interacting quantum fluids.(Abstract)

Thursday, August 7th at 14 in C123 :
Evgeny Lakshtanov (Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Scattering by Obstacles and Wave Problem of Minimal Resistance._
(Abstract)

Wednesday, June 18th at 14 in C123 :
Lara Vozella (Genova University and University of Helsinki)
"Rayleigh-Taylor instability in two dimensions"
(Abstract)

Wednesday, June 11th at 14 in D204 (Physicum):
Stephen Cornell (Leeds University)
"Exact asymptotic analysis for spatially extended stochastic population dynamics."
(Abstract)

Wednesday, May 28th at 14 in C123:
Peter Jones (Yale University)
"Diffusion Geometry and Local Uniformization by eigenfunctions."
(Abstract)

Friday, May 16th at 11 in C123:
Kalle Kytälä Université Paris-Sud)
"From SLE to the operator content of percolation".
(Abstract)

Wednesday, March 5th at 14 in C123:
Niklas Brännström (Warwick Mathematical Institute):
"Drift in the slow variables of slow-fast Hamiltonian systems"
(Abstract)

Wednesday, February 27th at 14 in C123:
Stefan Geritz (University of Helsinki):
"Adaptive dynamics and evolutionary chains"(Abstract)

Wednesday, January 30th at 14 in C123:
Sean Nowling (HIP and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki):
"Entanglement Entropy in Chern-Simons Quantum Field Theories".(Abstract)

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2007

Thursday, December 20th at 14 in C123:
John Moriarty (The University of Manchester):
"Reflected Brownian motion in a wedge: sum-of-exponential stationary densities".(Abstract)

Thursday, November 29th at 14 in C123 (Journal Club):
Emiliano De Simone (University of Helsinki):
"Weak KAM Theory".

Wednesday, October 31st at 14 in C123:
Sylvie Paycha (Université Blaise Pascal):
"Renormalised integrals with linear constraints and renormalised sums with conical constraints".(Abstract)

Tuesday, October 30th at 14 in C123:
Mathai Varghese (Adelaide University):
"Equivariant and Fractional Analytic Index".(Abstract)

Wednesday, October 17th at 14 in C123:
Jürgen Fuchs (Karlstadt University):
"Categorial aspects of conformal field theory" .
(Abstract)

Thursday, October 11th at 14 in C123:
Bernhard Mehlig (Göteborg University):
"Particles suspended in turbulent flows"
(Abstract)

Wednesday, October 10th at 14 in C123:
Francois Huveneers (Universit&eacute catholique de Louvain):
Diffusion properties of some deterministic dynamical systems"(Abstract)

Wednesday, September 26th at 14 in C123:
Jeremie Bec (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur):
"mini-course: Introduction to Burgers Turbulence"
(Abstract)

Thursday, September 27th at 14 in C123:
Jeremie Bec (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur):
"mini-course: Introduction to Burgers Turbulence"
(Abstract)

Wednesday, September 19th at 14 in C123:
Shinsuke Kawai (Helsinki Institute of Physics):
"mini-course: Introduction to Conformal Field Theory"_
(Abstract)

Thursday, September 20th at 14 in C123:
Shinsuke Kawai (Helsinki Institute of Physics):
"mini-course: Introduction to Conformal Field Theory"(Abstract)

Friday, September 21st at 14 in C123:
Shinsuke Kawai (Helsinki Institute of Physics):
"mini-course: Introduction to Conformal Field Theory"(Abstract)

Friday, September 14th at 14 in C123:
Piero Olla (ISAC-CNR, Cagliari):
"Concentration fluctuations of large Stokes number particles in a one-dimensional random velocity field"
(Abstract)

Thursday, September 6th at 14 in C123:
Erik Aurell (KTH, Stockholm):
"Transcription factor concentrations versus binding site affinities in the yeast S. cerevisiae"
(Abstract)

Wednesday, September 5th at 14 in C123:
Otto Pulkkinen (University of Jyväskylä ):
"Zero-range processes with applications to transport in random media"
(Abstract)

Wednesday, August 22nd at 14 in C123:
Nikolai Antonov (St Petersburg University):
"Critical behaviour of a fluid in a random shear flow: Renormalization group analysis of a simplified model"(Abstract)

Wednesday, August 15th at 14 in C123:
Mikko Stenlund (Rutgers University):
"Quenched Central Limit Theorem for the Random Toral Automorphism"(Abstract)

Wednesday, May 23rd:
Stefano Musacchio (Weizmann Institute):
"Inertial particles driven by a telegraph noise"
(Abstract)

Wednesday, March 21th:
Timo Vesala (Physics Dept, University of Helsinki):
"Can micrometeorological measurements of land-surface -atmosphere exchange processes help in understanding of fundamentals of turbulence?"

Wednesday, March 14th:
Tomi Huttunen (University of Kuopio, Applied Physics):
"Sisäkorvan nestedynamiikasta"

Monday, March 5th:
Kalle Kytölä (CEA/Saclay):
"Values of the free field along random curves"

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2006

Wednesday, November 8th:
Alan Carey (University of Canberra):
"Invariants from noncommutative geometry"

Friday, October 27th:
Finnish Mathematical Society Colloquium: Krzysztof Gawedzki (ENS-Lyon):
"Geometry of Gerbes and Conformal Field Theory"

Friday, October 13th:
Arakel Petrosyan (SRI):
"Mean field hydrodynamics for anisotropic flows"

Wednesday, October 04th:
Peter Horvai (Warwick Mathematics Institute):
"Inertial particles advection by stochastic velocity fields"

Thursday, August 24th:
Jani Lukkarinen (TU Munich): "Anomalous heat conduction in one dimension

Friday, May 19th:
Guido Gentile (Roma 3):
"Quasi-periodic attractors, divergent series and Borel-summability in forced dynamical systems with strong damping"

Friday, May 12th:
Stefano Berti (University of Turin):
"Phase separation in two-dimensional flows"

Thursday, May 11th:
Guido Boffetta (University of Turin):
"Conformal invariance in two-dimensional turbulence"

Friday, March 24th: Joint mathematical physics and geometric analysis seminar
Kalle Kytölä: (University of Helsinki):
"Multiple SLEs"

Thursday, March 9th: Joint mathematical physics and functional analysis seminar
Stanislav Smirnov (Geneva):
"Conformal invariance of the Ising mode"l

February 16-17th:
Kurt Johansson (KTH, Stockholm):
"Intensive course on random matrices"

Wednesday, February 8th:
Pekka Pyykkö ; (University of Helsinki):
"Quantum Chemistry for Mathematicians

Past journal/discussion clubs

2011

Wednesday, July the 6th at 14 in C123
Kalle Kytölä :
Discussions on quantum invariants: The Temperley-Lieb algebra from the quantum group U_q(sl_2). notes-journal_club-Kalle-20110706.pdf

Friday, June the 17th at 14 in B321
Juha Loikkanen :
Discussions on quantum invariants: Continuation of a series of talks on the Jones polynomial.
knots-03.pdf

Tuesday, June the 14th at 14 in C123
Jani Lukkarinen (University of Helsinki) :
"Quantum Diffusion and Delocalization for Band Matrices with General Distribution" (Abstract)

Friday, June the 10th at 14 in B321
Juha Loikkanen :
Discussions on quantum invariants: Continuation of a series of talks on the Jones polynomial.
Kauffman paper discussed on 10.06.2011 is this one and it is retrievable from here
"Informal résumé of the second talk"

Friday, June the 3rd at 14 in B321
Juha Loikkanen :
Discussions on quantum invariants: How did Vaughan Jones find the Jones polynomial?
Jones's original paper is here
"Informal résumé of the first talk"

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2010

Study group on Rough Paths based on Peter Friz's lecture notes. The Journal Club meets on Thursdays at 16 in C123.

Thursday, November the 25th
Oskari Ajanki
"TBA" (section 3 c'ed of Peter Friz's lecture notes)

Thursday, November the 18th
Mikko Pakkanen
"Enhanced Brownian motion as a rough path" (section 3 c'ed of Peter Friz's lecture notes)

Thursday, October the 15th
Jeremy Clark
"The algebra of iterated integrals" (section 2 c'ed of Peter Friz's lecture notes)

Thursday, October the 7th*
Christian Webb
"The algebra of iterated integrals" (section 2 c'ed of Peter Friz's lecture notes)

Thursday, September the 30th*
Christian Webb
"The algebra of iterated integrals" (section 2 c'ed of Peter Friz's lecture notes)

Thursday, September the 23rd
Mikko Pakkanen
"The algebra of iterated integrals" (section 2 of Peter Friz's lecture notes)

Wednesday, September the 21st at 14 in C123
Kalle Kytölä (University of Helsinki):
"Informal discussion on loop ensembles."(Abstract)

Thursday, September the 16th at 14 in C123
Antti Kemppainen
"On control ODEs" (section 1 of Friz's lecture notes)

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2008

Study group based on John Preskill's lecture notes on "Quantum Information and Computation" course at Caltech.

Monday, March 17th
Oskari Ajanki:
"Chapter 1"

Monday, March 31st
Sean Nowling:
"Chapter 2a"

Monday, March 14th
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi:
"Chapter 2b"

Monday, March 21st
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi:
"Chapter 3a"

Monday, March 28th
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi:
"Chapter 3b"

Monday, May 19th
Shinsuke Kawai:
"Chapter 4"

Monday, May 26th
Oskari Ajanki:
"Chapter 5a"

Monday, June 2nd
Oskari Ajanki:
"Chapter 5b"

Monday, June 9th
Sean Nowling:
"Chapter 5c"

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2007

Wednesday, May 30th at 14.15 in C123:
Stefano Berti:
"Simulating SLE"

Monday, May 28th at 14.15 in C323:
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi:
"Derivation of simplified effective equations for the large scale front propagation of turbulent reaction diffusion equations"(Abstract, Notes)

Monday, April 23th:
Antti Kemppainen:
"On theory of one-dimensional diffusions"

Tuesday, March 13th:
Emiliano De Simone:
"Symplectic capacity and periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems"

Wednesday, February 26th:
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi:
"Computing the Loewner driving process of random curves in the half plane"(based on this article by Tom Kennedy)

Wednesday, February 21th:
Heikki Arponen:
"Some results on inertial particles in smooth Kraichnan flows"

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2006

Monday, December 11th:
Eljas Toepfer:
"Local equilibrium and Bolzmann equation for weakly anharmonic chains - a heuristical approach (part II)"

Monday, December 4th:
Eljas Toepfer:
"Local equilibrium and Bolzmann equation for weakly anharmoni chains - a heuristical approach (part I)"

Monday, November 27th:
Oskari Ajanki:
"Information Theory and Wireless Ad-hoc Networks: Asymptotic Capacity and Protocol Overhead"

Monday, November 13th:
Oskari Ajanki:
"Statistical mechanical methods for dealing with asymmetric simple exclusion process" (The asymmetric simple exclusion process: an integrable model for non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, by O. Golinelli and K. Mallick)

Monday, October 30th:
Antti Kemppainen:
"Dimensions of SLE related fractals"

Monday, October 23rd:
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi:
"Lagrangian picture for passively advected particles" (part II)

Monday, October 16th:
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi:
"Lagrangian picture for passively advected particles"

Wednesday, June 21st:
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi:
"Statistical field theory description of stochastic Navier-Stokes"

Friday, April 28th:
Heikki Arponen:
"A model of a Dynamo effect in Magnetohydrodynamics"

Wednesday, April 26th:
Kalle Kytölä:
"Virasoro structure of local martingales for multiple SLEs"(based on parts of arXiv:math-ph/0604047)

Friday, April 21th:
Eljas Toepfer: "Fourier's law and weakly anharmonic crystals"

Friday, April 7th:
Antti Kemppainen:
"SLE topics"

Wednesday, April 5th:
Oskari Ajanki:
"A momentum conserving model with anomalous thermal conductivity in low dimension" ( [arXiv:cond-mat/0509688] )

Friday, March 31th:
Vesa Tähtinen:
"An introduction to the geometry of conformal blocks (continued)"

Friday, March 17th:
Juha Loikkanen:
"A point particle interpretation of the Wess-Zumino term (continued)"

Friday, March 10th:
Vesa Tähtinen:
"An introduction to the geometry of conformal blocks"(main reference is Toshitaki Kohno: Conformal Field Theory and Topology)

Friday, March 3rd:
Mikko Stenlund:
"A description of simple closed plane curves with applications to pattern recognition"

Friday, February 24th:
Juha Loikkanen: "A point particle interpretation of the Wess-Zumino term (Useful references are Gawedzki: [arXiv:hep-th/9904145] and "Geometry of loop groups and Wess-Zumino-Witten models" by Hiroshi Konno in Contemporary Mathematics Volume 179, 1994)

Friday, February 3rd:
Antti Kemppainen:
"Introduction to Schramm-Löwner evolution (SLE)"(background material: W.Kager & B.Nienhuis: [arXiv:math-ph/0312056] )

Friday, January 27th:
Heikki Arponen:
"Inertial particles in turbulent flow"(relevant article: P.Horvai: [arXiv:nlin.CD/0511023] |http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/nlin/pdf/0511/0511023.pdf])

Friday, January 20th:
Oskari Ajanki:
"Feinstein's theorem and some simple mathematical ideas behind Shannon information theory"

Friday, January 13th:
Kalle Kytölä:
"Finite conformal transformations in CFT"(based on M.Bauer & D.Bernard articles [arXiv:math-ph/0305061] , [arXiv:hep-th/0301064] )

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Workshops

2009

September 7-20th 2009:
Tom Körner (Cambridge University) will teach the course
"Baire Category and Probabilistic Methods in Analysis" (Abstract)
Lectures will be held
Tuesday 8th and 15th at 10-12 in C123
Wednesday 9th and 16th at 12-14 in B120
Thursday 10th and 17th at 10-12 in C123
Friday 11th and 18th at 10-12 in B120
Course lecture notes are available for download
from Körner's web page in the section
"Notes describing my own work during the past few years"
The course is organized by the CoE Analysis and Dynamics.

Workshop on Random structures, growth processes and conformal methods.
Helsinki, Finland, March 23-26, 2009
Please visit the the website of the workshop or the CoE "Analysis and Dynamics" web pages for further details.

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2008

Monday, March 10th at 13-17 in CK112:
Center of Excellence in Analysis and Dynamics GRAND OPENING

13.00 - 14.00 Ilkka Hanski (Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki):
Spatial patterns of coexistence of competing species in patchy habitats.

14.30 - 15.30 Kurt Johansson (Mathematics Institute, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm):
Random matrix universality.

15.45 - 16.45 Boris Tsirelson (School of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University):
Moderate deviations for random fields and random complex
zeroes.
(Abstract)

Abstracts and further info from the CoE web pages. As a part of the CoE inauguration during week 11th Boris Tsirelson will give a set of lectures to illustrate the concept of black noise and other non-classical noises:

Monday, March 10th at 10.30 in C323:
Boris Tsirelson (Tel Aviv University):
"mini-course: Non-classical noises"

Tuesday, March 11th at 12 in C323:
Boris Tsirelson (Tel Aviv University):
"mini-course: Non-classical noises"

Wednesday, March 12th at 10 in C323:
Boris Tsirelson (Tel Aviv University):
"mini-course: Non-classical noises"

Thursday, March 13th at 10 in C323:
Boris Tsirelson (Tel Aviv University):
"mini-course: Non-classical noises"

Friday, March 14th at 10 in B120:
Boris Tsirelson (Tel Aviv University):
"mini-course: Non-classical noises"

Networks and Algorithms: complexity in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, Helsinki, June 16 - 19, 2005.