{"id":3197,"date":"2021-11-11T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T15:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/?page_id=3197"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:10:24","slug":"erik-bates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/erik-bates\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Erik Bates<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Making sense of disordered systems: what if Euclid, Newton, and Maxwell did probability?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eric Bates colloquium EDIT\" width=\"1640\" height=\"923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ai4tmyjkwtU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abstract: Disordered systems are mathematical models (typically of the physical world) that are governed by random variables. These models have offered insights into a diverse array of research problems, and have also brought about a great number of powerful mathematical tools. The through line to the subject is the essential role played by probability theory, a relatively modern invention. By inserting random variables into classical models of physics, one finds new capacities for understanding the natural world. This talk will provide vignettes of three such models: disordered geometry, disordered motion, and disordered magnetism. Our tour of disordered systems will introduce some recurring technical themes such as Gibbs measures and variational formulas, which animate&#8212;for us mathematicians&#8212;this rich and exciting subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This talk is based on joint works with Sourav Chatterjee, Shirshendu Ganguly, Alan Hammond, Leila Sloman, and Youngtak Sohn.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3197","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3849,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3197\/revisions\/3849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}