Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit The Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit uses mathematical models, like random matrix theory, to show that universal patterns can be observed in widely disparate systems, from theoretical systems in physics to concrete biological systems. Members Research Shinobu Hikami Upcoming Events Past Events Unit News Contact Faculty Shinobu Hikami Share on: Unit News Research Update The Beauty of Numbers Having spent over 40 years as a professor in mathematics and theoretical physics, Shinobu Hikami has come across a great deal of phenomena that mathematics can explain. Institutional News International Workshop on Random Matrix Theory From April 15-21, OIST’s Seaside House was abuzz with eigenvalues and Gaussian ensembles as the university hosted its first Spring Course on Random Matrix Theory for Complex Systems. View More Conferences & Workshops Symposium New Trends of Conformal Theory from Probability to Gravity In this workshop, we focus a new relation between theoretical physics and mathematics: gravity and probability by new theoretical methods, such as conformal bootstrap methods and the studies of the eigenvalues of Calabi-Yau manifolds etc. &n Organizers: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit 31 July 2023 - 04 August 2023 Jointly-hosted Workshop Interactions of new trends in algebraic geometry and singularities Organizers: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit 11 October 2021 - 15 October 2021 Symposium Quantum and Gravity in Okinawa 2019 In this workshop/conference, we focus on such pillars of modern physics which are tied together in the research of quantum gravity. Organizers: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit 23 July 2019 - 27 July 2019 Symposium Bootstrap Approach to Conformal Field Theories and Applications Scale invariant theories, i.e. theories which look the same at all distance and energy scales, play an important role in physics. Through Wilson’s renormalization group, scale invariant theories arise naturally in phase transitions. Organizers: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit 18 March 2018 - 24 March 2018 Jointly-organized Course MSRI Summer Graduate School on Commutative Algebra and related topics The purpose of the school will be to introduce graduate students to foundational results in commutative algebra, with particular emphasis of the diversity of the related topics with commutative algebra. Organizers: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit 22 May 2017 - 02 June 2017 View More Research Specialties Quantum field theory Related Research Units Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit Quantum Gravity Unit Qubits and Spacetime Unit Search for a Unit
Research Update The Beauty of Numbers Having spent over 40 years as a professor in mathematics and theoretical physics, Shinobu Hikami has come across a great deal of phenomena that mathematics can explain.
Institutional News International Workshop on Random Matrix Theory From April 15-21, OIST’s Seaside House was abuzz with eigenvalues and Gaussian ensembles as the university hosted its first Spring Course on Random Matrix Theory for Complex Systems.
Symposium New Trends of Conformal Theory from Probability to Gravity In this workshop, we focus a new relation between theoretical physics and mathematics: gravity and probability by new theoretical methods, such as conformal bootstrap methods and the studies of the eigenvalues of Calabi-Yau manifolds etc. &n Organizers: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit 31 July 2023 - 04 August 2023
Jointly-hosted Workshop Interactions of new trends in algebraic geometry and singularities Organizers: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit 11 October 2021 - 15 October 2021
Symposium Quantum and Gravity in Okinawa 2019 In this workshop/conference, we focus on such pillars of modern physics which are tied together in the research of quantum gravity. Organizers: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit 23 July 2019 - 27 July 2019
Symposium Bootstrap Approach to Conformal Field Theories and Applications Scale invariant theories, i.e. theories which look the same at all distance and energy scales, play an important role in physics. Through Wilson’s renormalization group, scale invariant theories arise naturally in phase transitions. Organizers: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit 18 March 2018 - 24 March 2018
Jointly-organized Course MSRI Summer Graduate School on Commutative Algebra and related topics The purpose of the school will be to introduce graduate students to foundational results in commutative algebra, with particular emphasis of the diversity of the related topics with commutative algebra. Organizers: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit 22 May 2017 - 02 June 2017
