Current & Upcoming Colloquia
Special Colloquium

Itamar Procaccia
08 December 2025, 15:30 to 17:00
Emmy Noether Seminar Room
The Kosterlitz-Thouless and the Hexatic phase transitions are celebrated examples of dipole (vortex, dislocation) induced transitions in condensed matter physics. For very clear reasons, these important "topological" transitions are restricted to 2-dimensions. In this lecture I will present a...more
Special Colloquium

Jorge Kurchan
10 December 2025, 16:15 to 17:45
Ramanujan Lecture Hall
In the past years there has been renewed interest in identifying bounds, originating from quantum mechanics, on various quantities such as transport coefficients, including conductivity and viscosity. These remain elusive, but a “bound to chaos,” limiting the value of a Lyapunov exponent, was...more