Systems with Coulomb interactions - Sylvia Serfaty

 

Abstract: We are interested in the statistical mechanics and dynamics of large systems of interacting Coulomb or Riesz particles. This is motivated by vortices, quantum and statistical mechanical models, approximation issues, and random matrix models. The mean-field behavior of these systems will be discussed, as well as their microscopic behavior as a function of temperature, which leads in particular to questions of crystallization.

 

Biography: Sylvia Serfaty has made fundamental contributions to partial differential equations and mathematical physics, particularly superconductivity and Coulomb gases. She was a plenary speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematics and has received the EMS, Henri Poincaré, Maryam Mirzakhani, and Riemann Prizes. She obtained her PhD from Paris-Sud University in 1999 and is currently based at the Courant Institute and Sorbonne Université.