Ten minutes for your mind@2:50 every day at 2:50 pm in multiple time zones:Europa@2:50, EET, Athens, Helsinki (UTC+2) (7:50 am EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88298032734Atlantica@2:50, EST, New York, Toronto (UTC-4) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85349851047Pacifica@2:50, PST, Los Angeles, Vancouver (UTC=7) (5:50 pm EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85743543699Almost everything works better again if you unplug it for a bit, including your mind. Stop by and unplug. Get the benefits of mindfulness without the fuss.@2:50 meets at the same time every single day for ten minutes of quiet together.No pre-requisite, no registration needed.Visit the website to view all @2:50 time zones each day.at250.org or at250.mit.edu

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"The Role of Tax Preparers in Individual Tax Optimization” | Katarzyna Bilicka

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.