Talks

In this talk I will do three things. First, I will outline the conditions under which the interaction rate of inelastic processes with a system consisting of N targets scales as N^2. Second, I will present computations of interaction rates for several weakly interacting particles, including the Cosmic Neutrino Background and QCD axion dark matter, and will explain the underlying physics. Third, I will introduce new quantum observables that do not rely on net energy transfer, but can still extract these N^2 effects. This talk will not address a concrete experimental proposal, but the effects presented may point to a new class of table-top and ultra-low threshold particle detectors.

In this seminar, I will discuss recent progress towards developing robust methods to constrain PNG in the non-linear regime based on the LSS consistency relations — non-perturbative statements about the structure of LSS correlation functions derived from symmetries of the LSS equations of motion. Specifically, I will present non-perturbative models for the squeezed matter bispectrum and collapsed matter trispectrum in the presence of local PNG, as well as in the presence of a more general “Cosmological Collider” signal sourced by inflationary massive particle exchange. Using N-body simulations with modified initial conditions, I will demonstrate that these models yield unbiased constraints on the amplitude of PNG deep into the non-linear regime (k~2 h/Mpc at z=0). Finally, I will discuss how these non-perturbative methods can provide insight into the scale-dependent bias signature associated with the Cosmological Collider scenario.

In the recent resolution of the strong Onsager’s conjecture in L^3 framework, so-called wavelet-inspired Nash’s iteration has been developed. In this lecture, we will sketch this new method and provide the necessary background. The lecture will be based on our recent joint work with Matthew Novack.

We say that an ordinary or partial differential equation is regularized by noise if the addition of a suitable noise term restores well-posedness or improves regularity of the solution to the equation. Regularization by noise is by now well understood for ODEs and linear transport-type PDEs, but it is less understood for nonlinear PDEs like Euler and Navier-Stokes equations, with many open questions.

In the first part of this series of lectures, we consider the case of ODEs and associated transport equations with irregular drift: we show that the addition of an additive Brownian noise restores well-posedness of the ODE; we introduce the corresponding transport noise and show that this noise restores well-posedness for the associated transport equation. In the second part, we focus our attention on the effect of a particular transport-type noise, which is divergence-free, Gaussian, white in time and poorly correlated in space (nonsmooth Kraichnan noise). The associated linear transpo...

There is a well-known discrepancy in mathematical fluid mechanics between phenomena that we can observe and phenomena on which we have theorems. The challenge for the mathematician is then to formulate an existence theory of solutions to the equations of hydrodynamics which is able to reflect observation. The most important such observation, forming the backbone of turbulence theory, is anomalous dissipation. In the talk, we survey some of the recent developments concerning weak solutions in this context.

We say that an ordinary or partial differential equation is regularized by noise if the addition of a suitable noise term restores well-posedness or improves regularity of the solution to the equation. Regularization by noise is by now well understood for ODEs and linear transport-type PDEs, but it is less understood for nonlinear PDEs like Euler and Navier-Stokes equations, with many open questions.

In the first part of this series of lectures, we consider the case of ODEs and associated transport equations with irregular drift: we show that the addition of an additive Brownian noise restores well-posedness of the ODE; we introduce the corresponding transport noise and show that this noise restores well-posedness for the associated transport equation. In the second part, we focus our attention on the effect of a particular transport-type noise, which is divergence-free, Gaussian, white in time and poorly correlated in space (nonsmooth Kraichnan noise). The associated linear transpo...

In the recent resolution of the strong Onsager’s conjecture in L^3 framework, so-called wavelet-inspired Nash’s iteration has been developed. In this lecture, we will sketch this new method and provide the necessary background. The lecture will be based on our recent joint work with Matthew Novack.

There is a well-known discrepancy in mathematical fluid mechanics between phenomena that we can observe and phenomena on which we have theorems. The challenge for the mathematician is then to formulate an existence theory of solutions to the equations of hydrodynamics which is able to reflect observation. The most important such observation, forming the backbone of turbulence theory, is anomalous dissipation. In the talk, we survey some of the recent developments concerning weak solutions in this context.

We start by demonstrating that numerical methods do not necessarily converge to entropy or admissible weak solutions of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations of fluid dynamics on mesh refinement due to appearance of eddies at smaller and smaller scales. As an alternative, we revisit the concept of statistical solutions which are time-parametrized probability measures, consistent with the fluid evolution. We empirically show that the same numerical methods converge to a statistical solution and also derive verifiable sufficient conditions under which this convergence can be made rigorous. Numerical experiments illustrating interesting properties of statistical solutions are also presented. We conclude by showing how state of the art generative AI models (conditional diffusion) can significantly lower the cost of computing statistical solutions while maintaining accuracy.