Wednesday, February 16, 2022

SPRING 2022

 


17 Feb and 3 Mar

K. V. Shajesh

Eigenvalues of Maxwell field tensor
VIDEO 1  and VIDEO 2

Monday, January 24, 2022

Spring 2022


27 Jan  and 10 Feb
(to be continued...)

Mohammad Sayeh

Associative memory

VIDEO 1 and VIDEO 2 


Via zoom; the link is given above.

Image from https://www.hrl.com/news/
2019/05/30/hrls-sparse-associative-memory
-emulates-a-major-function-of-the-brain


Thursday, May 20, 2021

Spring/Summer 2021

 

Enjoy the break!


The seminar will resume
this summer at a later time.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

SPRING 2021


   29 Apr 2021

   Jerzy Kocik

  Lie algebra in graphical language
  for pedestrians
  (with a tinge of category theory)

  [video]

Remark on summation convetion:  When an expression has a repeated index, once as a superscript and once as a subscript, the summation over this index is implied, for instance $$A^j_iv^i \equiv \sum_iA^j_iv^i$$  I forgot to mention it at the beginning of the talk.

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

SPRING 2021

 

 15 Apr 2021 

  K. V. Shajesh

  Direction of friction on
  wheels of a car


[Video]

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

SPRING 2021


[1 April seminar is cancelled]

8 April 2021

Borzu Toloui

The Descriptor Picture of Quantum Mechanics

(Part 3 -- conclusions)

Video 3  (starts at 20th minute)

[2 pm, zoom link at the top]


Borzu suggests these papers for further insights:


Wednesday, March 17, 2021

SPRING 2021


18 and 25 March 2021

Borzu Toloui

The Descriptor Picture of Quantum Mechanics
(Part1 and Part 2)

[Video 1]  [Video 2]

Here is the link to a relevant paper: 

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.11189.pdf

[For basics on quantum computing see Lomonaco's "Roseta Stone"]

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Spring 2021


 11 Mar 2021

 Revival of the seminar! 

  A general chat + a possible talk:

 Jerzy Kocik

 On a certain discrete matrix group

  

Sunday, December 6, 2020

Autumn 2020

Our seminar takes a break till the next semester (January).  Thank you everybody for participating!  Please use this space for sharing comments and interesting or relevant items. Use comments or send me a material to be posted. 


Happy physical, spiritual, and mental transition to 2021!


From now on we shall use a permanent zoom address; see below. 
Note that the link is also displayed in the right margin column.  

Thursdays 2pm for seminar, any time for a chat:

                                          Link to Zoom (click here)

Meeting ID: 923 4934 3807,   Passcode: 426631
You may also join by Skype for Business.



Saturday, November 14, 2020

Autumn 2020



19 Nov and 3 Dec 2020

K. V. Shajesh

Casimir Effect

Recording of Part 1 

Recording of Part 2



Thursdays 2pm for seminar, any time for a chat:

                                          Link to Zoom (click here)

Meeting ID: 923 4934 3807,   Passcode: 426631

You may also join by Skype for Business.



Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Autumn 2020


5 and 12 Nov 2020

Jerzy Kocik 

Integrality implies super-integrality and hyper-integrality

Part 2:  Disks as vectors in Minkowski space, inversions, and conclusion of the proof. 

See Apolloniana for some background

Recording of Part 1
Recording of Part 2


Part 1: Here are two warm-up problems (related, but not central):

Suppose 4 integers do not have a common factor, gcd(a,b,c,d)=1, and satisfy quadratic equation $$(a+b+c+d)^2 = 2\, (a^2+b^2+c^2+d^2)$$ Show that:
1.  Exactly two of them are odd  (easy)
2.  The sum of any two can be written as a sum of two squares (a challenge)

Examples of solutions to the quadratic equation: (2,3,6,23), (2,3,15,38), (3,6, 14 47), (0,1,4,9), (11,14,15,89),...