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Ten microseconds after the Big Bang, the universe was a hot and dense soup of quarks and gluons - a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) - with temperatures exceeding a million times the core temperature of the sun. As matter cooled in the expansion, these "colorful" quarks and gluons underwent a transition to...more

Mathematics and its allied disciplines have historically relied heavily on the human brain to push the frontiers of the field. However, our understanding of the brain as the instrument that performs this cognitive task is woefully limited. Some of what we do know about the brain and the way it...more

I will report on recent progress towards fundamental conjectures in quantum chaos, which assert that the statistics of quantum energy levels should be governed by a Poisson point process if the system is completely integrable (Berry & Tabor, 1977) or by random matrix theory if the underlying...more