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List of talks
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Oct. 30, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Piotr Szymczak (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej)
Split Societies, Elections, and Polls
In modern democracies, the outcomes of elections and referendums are often strikingly close to evenly split. To explain this phenomenon, we propose a simple model of binary voting inspired by the Ising model. Voters are …
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Oct. 23, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Aernout van Enter (University of Groningen)
One-sided versus two-sided aspects in Dyson models
We discuss a number of recent results about Dyson models, which are ferromagnets with polynomially decaying interactions. We show that at low temperatures their Gibbs measures (which have continuous two-sided conditional probabilities) are not g-measures …
