May 11 – 14, 2026
Maskawa Building for Education and Research
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Liquid theory of spherical and unitary designs.

May 14, 2026, 2:20 PM
40m

Speaker

Jorge Kurchan (École Normale Supérieure)

Description

“Designs” are sets of points, for example on a sphere, that have the property that averages of polynomials over the set coincide with averages over the whole sphere. Similarly for the unitary group.
One can make treat these points as interacting particles, and use liquid theory to study the problem.

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