See below for titles and abstracts.

We encourage in-person partecipation. Should you be unable to come, here is the link to the Teams streaming:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3arfsL73KX-fw86y1YnXq2nk5VnZFwPU-iIPEmqet8NCg1%40thread.tacv2/1738745510265?context={"Tid"%3a"24c5be2a-d764-40c5-9975-82d08ae47d0e"%2c"Oid"%3a"650fc4a8-4cec-4bd2-87bc-90d134074fe6"}

The seminars are part of the Excellence Project MatMod@TOV.

TALK 1

Alexandre Stauffer (King's College London)

“Non-monotone phase transition in interacting particle systems”

In this talk we will discuss a reaction-diffusion particle system which has a non-monotone phase transition. I will explain the techniques used to analyze monotone models and how they can be refined to analyze non-monotone particle systems.
Based on upcoming works with Leandro Chiarini and Tom Finn.

TALK 2

Jacopo Borga (MIT)

“Lattice Yang-Mills theory in the large N limit via sums over surfaces"

Abstract: Lattice Yang-Mills theories are important models in particle physics. They are defined on the d-dimensional lattice Z^d using a group of matrices of dimension N, and Wilson loop expectations are the fundamental observables of these theories. Recently, Cao, Park, and Sheffield showed that Wilson loop expectations can be expressed as sums over certain embedded bipartite maps of any genus. Building on this novel approach, we prove in the so-called strongly coupled regime: