Come by for snacks, and tea with Literature Section friends, instructors, students, etc. What are you reading? What 21L classes are you taking or hoping to take? This event is specifically geared towards undergrads; but open to friends of the community that engage in the literary and humanities at MIT.

Speaker: Oren Yakir (MIT)Title: Charge fluctuations in the hierarchical Coulomb gasAbstract:The two-dimensional Coulomb gas model describes electrically charged particles embedded in a uniform background of the opposite charge, interacting through a logarithmic potential. A celebrated prediction from the physics literature, made by Jancovici, Lebowitz and Manificat in 1993, describes probabilities of observing large charge fluctuations in the system. From the mathematical standpoint, the JLM law is only proved in a very special 'solvable' case, with only partial results known in general. A few years ago, Chatterjee introduced a hierarchical version of the Coulomb gas inspired by Dyson's hierarchical model for the Ising ferromagnet. In the talk, I will present a joint work with Alon Nishry, in which we prove that the JLM law holds for this hierarchical model.

Speaker: Akhil Mathew (University of Chicago)

Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

International Spillovers of Industrial Policy in the Global Semiconductor Sector

Join us on Monday, November 17 to learn about MIT’s combined engineering and management master’s degree!In this session, we’ll give you an overview of our unique integrated core course and the curriculum that lets you take classes at MIT’s School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management. Program staff will answer your questions about the application process. Current students will also join us to share what it’s really like to be a student at MIT. Our engineering and management degree provides you with tools to help you solve real-world problems as a leader in any organization.