Speaker Charles M. NewmanSilver Professor of Mathematics,New York UniversityBorn in Chicago in 1946, Professor Charles M. Newman received two B.S. (1966) degrees (Mathematics and Physics) from MIT, and M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees in Physics from Princeton. His specialties are probability theory and statistical physics, with over 200 published papers in those and related areas. Beginnin...
SpeakerDu Pei is currently an associate professor of quantum mathematics at the University of Southern Denmark. He obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 2016 from Caltech. His main research interests concern the geometric, algebraic and categorical properties of quantum field theory.AbstractThe existence of quantum field theories in higher dimensions predicts many hidden algebraic struct...