Speaker Ruixiang Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics. He works in harmonic analysis on Euclidean spaces and related problems. He is also interested in harmonic analysis on general locally symmetric spaces and in additive combinatorics.Awards for Zhang include the Gold Medal of the 49th International Mathematics Olympiad, a Silver Medal for his doctoral thesis for th...
SpeakerNicolai Reshetikhin is a mathematical physicist working at the interface of quantum field theory, representation theory and geometry.AbstractThe talk will focused on how quantum field theory emerged as a physical theory and on how mathematical methods were evolving. This was a mutually stimulating process. Physics got a magnificent variety of mathematical tools. Mathematics got many new ...