RIT on Geometry and Physics Archives for Fall 2025 to Spring 2026

Organizational Meeting

When: Thu, September 4, 2025 - 3:15pm
Where: MTH 1308
Organizational meeting for fall 2025

Intro to quantum mechanics

When: Thu, September 11, 2025 - 3:15pm
Where: MTH 1308
Speaker: Tristan Hubsch (Howard Physics)
 
Video of lecture 

Intro to quantum mechanics (part 2)

When: Thu, September 18, 2025 - 3:15pm
Where: MTH 1308
Speaker: Tristan Hubsch (Physics, Howard Univ.)

Group symmetries in quantum mechanics

When: Thu, September 25, 2025 - 3:15pm
Where: MTH 1308
Speaker: Jonathan Rosenberg (UMd Math)

The Peter-Weyl Theorem and rotational states of molecules

When: Thu, October 9, 2025 - 3:15pm
Where: MTH 1308
Speaker: Victor Albert (NIST, UMd Physics, and QuICS)

The Peter-Weyl Theorem and rotational states of molecules, part 2

When: Thu, October 16, 2025 - 3:15pm
Where: online only at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93185174823?pwd=iu4Ta2L2hOh9u65ea5HihBwg9LPG7X.1
Speaker: Victor Albert (NIST, UMd Physics, and QuICS)

The Peter-Weyl theorem and molecular symmetries (part 3)

When: Thu, October 23, 2025 - 3:15pm
Where: MTH 1308
Speaker: Victor Albert (UMd Physics, QuICS, and NIST)

Introduction to 2d Yang-Mills and the Migdal formula

When: Thu, October 30, 2025 - 3:15pm
Where: MTH 1308
Speaker: Richard Wentworth (UMd Math)

Introduction to 2d Yang-Mills and the Migdal formula (cont'd)

When: Thu, November 6, 2025 - 3:15pm
Where: MTH 1308
Speaker: Richard Wentworth (UMd math)

Hurwitz spaces

When: Thu, November 13, 2025 - 3:15pm
Where: MTH 1308
Speaker: Amin Gholampour (UMd Math)

The Kazakov-Douglas study of the partition function on S^2

When: Thu, November 20, 2025 - 3:15pm
Where: MTH 1308
Speaker: Jonathan Rosenberg (UMd Math)
Abstract: This will primarily be a discussion of the Douglas-Kazakov paper  arXiv:hep-th/9305047, as well as some earlier work by Kazakov and Rusakov.

Woodward's approach to Migdal's formula

When: Thu, December 4, 2025 - 3:15pm
Where: MTH 1308
Speaker: Panos Dimakis (UMd Math)
Abstract: We'll discuss the paper "Localization for the norm-square of the moment map and the two-dimensional Yang-Mills integral " by C. Woodward in J. Symplectic Geometry, 2005.