News

News

SwissMAP PhD and Postdoc Mentoring Program leaflet

06/10/2020
Geneva - Switzerland

img_news_1We invite our SwissMAP PhD and Postdoc members to read the new SwissMAP PhD and Postdoc Mentoring Program leaflet which provides information about the program. The program is open to all SwissMAP PhD and Postdoc members.More »


National press coverage for our member Maryna Viazovska (EPFL)

05/10/2020
Geneva - Switzerland

img_news_1Our member Maryna Viazovska (EPFL) has recently received national press coverage following the National Latsis Prize she was awarded for her ground-breaking mathematical problem solving..More »


Martin Hairer is the single winner of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

30/09/2020
Geneva - Switzerland

img_news_1Professor Sir Martin Hairer is the single winner of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. He was a PhD student at UNIGE in our member Jean-Pierre Eckmann’s group. He finished his PhD in 2001 on "Comportement asymptotique d’équations à dérivées partielles stochastiques".More »


“Mathematics: Art or Science?” talk by Stanislav Smirnov at Colloque Wright

30/09/2020
Geneva - Switzerland

img_news_1Our director Stanislav Smirnov (UNIGE) will be a speaker at the upcoming 19th Colloque Wright in Geneva. His talk entitled “Mathematics: Art or Science?” will take place 6th November at 18:30. Free entrance, on registration from October 5.More »


Public debate with Nicolas Gisin in Geneva

29/09/2020
Geneva - Switzerland

img_news_1Our member Nicolas Gisin will be participating in the "Café philosophique aux Bains des Pâquis" Public debate "Qu'est-ce que le hasard?" (FR) in Geneva 03rd October.More »


Maryna Viazovska - National Latsis Prize

22/09/2020
Lausanne - Switzerland

img_news_1Maryna Viazovska (EPFL) receives the National Latsis Prize awarded to young researchers under the age of 40, for her ground-breaking mathematical problem solving. The prize will be presented by Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin at an awards ceremony in Bern on 4 November.More »


Jurg Frohlich international member of the National Academy of Sciences

17/09/2020
Zurich - Switzerland

img_news_1We are glad to announce that our member Jürg Fröhlich (ETH Zurich) has been elected as an international member of the National Academy of Sciences. His colleagues in the United States invited him to join the fellowship in recognition of his significant contributions to science.More »


Tudor Ratiu joins the list of mentors of our mentoring programme

16/09/2020
Lausanne - Switzerland

img_news_1We are glad to inform you that our member Tudor Ratiu (EPFL) has joined the list of mentors of our SwissMAP PhD and Postdoc mentoring programme. The programme was launched to support our PhD and Postdoc SwissMAP members and to give them access to the knowledge, skills and expertise of our more senior SwissMAP participants who volunteered as mentors.More »


The Junior Global Poisson Workshop 2020 has started

14/09/2020
Geneva - Switzerland

img_news_1The Junior Global Poisson Workshop 2020 (14-16 Sept) has started with this welcome message from the organisers talking about this virutal three-day workshop for Young Poisson Geometers.More »


Winners of this year's SwissMAP PhD & Postdoc Video Competition

14/09/2020
Geneva - Switzerland

img_news_1Congratulations to Nikita Nikolaev (UNIGE) who is this year’s winner of the SwissMAP PhD & Postdoc Video Competition for his video: How do you solve a really hard problem? With Perturbation Theory! This year’s 2nd Prize winner is Beatriz Navarro Lameda (UNIGE) for her video: Random Walks.More »

Events

Events

Conference in honor of J.-P. Eckmann (UniGE)

07/06/2021 - 10/06/2021
Geneva - Switzerland

img_events_10The conference has been postponed to 2021, (previous date: 22-25 June 2020). This conference will bring together students and close collaborators of Jean-Pierre Eckmann on the occasion of his 50 years at the University of Geneva. More »


Gauge/Gravity Duality

26/07/2021 - 30/07/2021
Geneva - Switzerland

img_events_10 The conference has been postponed to July 26 - 30, 2021 to be held again at CERN. Gauge/Gravity Duality has established itself as a significant link between gravitation and quantum field theory. More »


Geneva to host ICMP 2021

29/07/2021 to 07/08/2021
Geneva - Switzerland

img_events_10 We are happy to announce that Geneva will be hosting the next International Congress of Mathematical Physics in 2021. The event is expected to attract around 800 participants from around the world. More »

Events

Online Events

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Oct 2020
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Talks in mathematical physics

01/10/2020
Hosted by: ETH Zurich

Speaker: Stefano D'Alesio (ETH Zurich)
Title: Derived representation schemes and Nakajima quiver varieties


Global Poisson Webinar series

Oct 2020
Hosted by: University of Geneva

01/10/2020 - No seminar

08/10/2020 - Speaker: Nigel Hitchin (University of Oxford)
Title: Teichmueller spaces and the geometry of geodesics

29/10/2020 - Speaker: Lisa Jeffrey (University of Toronto)
Title: TBA


[K-OS] Knot Online Seminar

Oct 2020
Hosted by: University of Geneva, CNRS

08/10/2020 - Speaker: Livio Liechti (Université de Fribourg)
Title: Bi-Perron numbers and the Alexander polynomial

15/10/2020 - Speaker: Tara Brendle (University of Glasgow)
Title: The mapping class group of connect sums of s^2 × s^1

22/10/2020 - Speaker: Louis Funar (Université de Grenoble)
Title: Braided surfaces and their characteristic maps

29/10/2020 - No seminar

Welcome

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Nicola Dondi

Location: University of Bern

Group: S. Reffert

Projects: String Theory

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Publications

Publications

29/09/2020

Certification of highly entangled measurements and nonlocality via scalable entanglement-swapping on quantum computers

Elisa Bäumer, Nicolas Gisin, Armin Tavakoli

arXiv:2009.14028 More »


29/09/2020

Recent developments on quasineutral limits for Vlasov-type equations

Megan Griffin-Pickering, Mikaela Iacobelli

arXiv:2009.14169 More »


28/09/2020

Applications of dispersive sum rules: ε-expansion and holography

Dean Carmi, Joao Penedones, Joao A. Silva, Alexander Zhiboedov

arXiv:2009.13506 More »


28/09/2020

Non-semisimple invariants and Habiro's series

Anna Beliakova, Kazuhiro Hikami

arXiv:2009.13285 More »


25/09/2020

Reply to a "Comment on 'Physics without determinism: Alternative interpretations of classical physics'"

Flavio Del Santo, Nicolas Gisin

arXiv:2009.12284 More »


23/09/2020

An Operator Product Expansion for Form Factors

Amit Sever, Alexander G. Tumanov, Matthias Wilhelm

arXiv:2009.11297 More »


23/09/2020

Free field world-sheet correlators for AdS_3

Andrea Dei, Matthias R. Gaberdiel, Rajesh Gopakumar, Bob Knighton

arXiv:2009.11306 More »


16/06/2020

Derived Representation Schemes and Nakajima Quiver Varieties

Stefano D'Alesio

arXiv:2006.09282 More »