Mathematics Colloquium

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A PDE Perspective on Many-body Problems in Quantum Optics

Speaker: John Schotland, Yale University

Location: Warren Weaver Hall 1302

Date: Monday, October 16, 2023, 3:45 p.m.

Synopsis:

Quantum optics is the quantum theory of the interaction of light and matter. In this talk, I will describe a real-space formulation of quantum electrodynamics. The goal is to understand the propagation of nonclassical states of light in systems consisting of many atoms. In this setting, there is a close relation to kinetic equations for nonlocal PDEs with random coefficients.