Events

Upcoming Events

Research in Groups Meeting

This “research in groups” meeting will bring together a subset of the PIs for an intensive week of work aimed at concretely formulating and making substantial progress on the central mathematical goals of the project. The meeting will focus on the properties of solutions to the Robin boundary value problem in rough domains, within the framework of the Localization of Waves grant.

Participants include: Svitlana Mayboroda, Guy David, Marcel Filoche, Alberto Pacati, Cole Jeznach.  

Supported by The Simons Foundation

2026 Simons Collaboration on the Localization of Waves Annual Meeting

Thurs.: 8:30 AM—5 PM
Fri.: 8:30 AM—2 PM

Invitation Only

Organizers

  • Svitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota
  • Marcel Filoche, ESPCI Paris – PSL University

Meeting Goals

The 2026 Annual Meeting of the Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves gathers leading mathematicians and physicists working to advance the understanding of wave propagation and localization in disordered media and complex geometries.

Across two days of presentations, speakers will highlight significant progress at the intersection of mathematics, physics, and engineering of localization of waves. Topics range from the counterexample to the hot spots conjecture to quasicrystals and associated properties of water waves, to theoretical breakthroughs in Anderson localization, to experimental achievements in the realm of disordered semiconductors and systems of cold atoms in the presence of a random speckle potential.

Equally important, the meeting will serve as a forum for animated discussion and intellectual exchange, fostering new connections and collaborations within this vibrant research community.

Current & Past Events

Workshop – Physics of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors and Devices: Electronic Properties, Photonics, Electron Emission, and Modeling

Overview

The workshop addresses the physics of wide bandgap semiconductors. The focus will be on electronic properties, photonics, electron emission, modeling of materials and devices. The workshop will gather participants, both theoreticians and experimentalists, coming from USA, Asia, and Europe.

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Organizers

  • Marcel Filoche (ESPCI)
  • Jacques Peretti (Ecole Polytechnique)
  • Alistair Rowe (Ecole Polytechnique)
  • Jim Speck (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  • Claude Weisbuch (Ecole Polytechnique)

2025 Simons Collaboration on the Localization of Waves Annual Meeting

Organizer:
Svitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota

Meeting Goals:
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves will bring together world-renowned mathematicians and physicists working on unveiling the structures and behaviors of wave propagation and localization in disordered media or complex geometry.

The two-day meeting will feature presentations of the latest progress in the mathematics, physics, and applications of localization and geometrical measure theory. These include new results on the geometric structure of random waves, theoretical advances in Anderson localization, and groundbreaking experiments in systems of cold atoms and in disordered semiconductors.

The meeting will also be an opportunity for all participants to engage in open discussion, exchange ideas and make new connections.

Read more here.

Geometry, Disorder, and Delocalization of Eigenfunctions

The aim of this workshop is to bring top experts from different communities including geometric measure theory, percolation theory, spectral geometry, semi-classical analysis, and physicists from adjacent fields, to discuss the relationship between Geometry, Disorder, and Delocalization of Eigenfunctions.

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Schedule

All talks in MIT 2-449

Thursday, May 16th

8:30am – Coffee and Pastries in 2-450
9-10am – Marcel Filoche
10-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30am: Mikhail Sodin
11:30-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm-2:30pm: David Damanik
2:30-3:30pm: Yulia Karpeshina
3:30-4pm: Snack Break in 2-450
4-5pm: Lior Alon

Friday, May 17th

8:30am Coffee and Pastries in 2-450
9-10am: Roland Bauerschmidt
10-10:30: Break
10:30-11:30am: Balint Toth
11:30-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm-2:30pm: Will Feldman
2:30-3:30pm: Dor Elboim
3:30-4pm: Snack Break in 2-450
4-5pm: Felipe Hernandez

Saturday, May 18th

8am: Coffee and Pastries in 2-450
8:30am-9:30am: Eugenia Malinnikova
9:30am-10am: Break
10-11am: Nick Edelen
11-12: Wilhelm Schlag

12-1pm: Sandwiches provided in Room 2-450

 
 

2024 Simons Collaboration on the Localization of Waves Annual Meeting

The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves will bring together top mathematicians and physicists who work on understanding and manipulating the behavior of waves in disordered media or complex geometry, with a particular focus on localization phenomena.

The two-day meeting will feature presentations of recent advances in the mathematics, physics, and applications of localization. These include new results on the geometric structure of random waves, theoretical advances in Anderson localization, and groundbreaking experiments in systems of cold atoms.

The meeting will also be an opportunity for all participants to engage in open discussion, exchange ideas and make new connections.

Detailed information can be found on the Simons Foundation event page.

Workshop: Disorder in Semiconductor Physics and Devices

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Workshop: Dynamic effects on electronic structure and phenomena

This meeting will explore recent advances in experiment and modelling of dynamic control of electronic structure and excitations in a range of functional materials.

WAVE Collaboration Annual Meeting 2023

The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves will bring together many of the world’s top mathematicians and physicists who are working to understand and exploit the localization of waves brought about by a disordered environment or complex geometry, and related wave behaviors.

Wave Localization & Many-Body Localization in Quantum Information

Anderson localization of electronic states induced by the presence of a structural disorder at the atomic scale has been a long-standing theoretical and experimental puzzle. The question has pervaded other fields such as optics or cold atom physics, with experimental setups trying to achieve spatial localization of light or of atomic matter waves in Bose-Einstein condensates. This event is an opportunity to bring together researchers and students from these connected but different fields, to exchange and to cross-fertilize their approaches.

Wave Collaboration: Where We Are and Where We Are Going

The goals of the meeting are to present the key achievements of the first 4-year stage of the project and to jumpstart the program moving forward to the second stage. The workshop will cover all fields of the Collaboration, from experimental physics to pure mathematics, and will foster the opportunities to build interdisciplinary teams for most compelling current challenges in phase space, geometry, random media, dynamics, and transport.

Mathematical Physics aspects of localization

Within the framework of the Simons collaboration on localization on waves, we organize a workshop on the mathematical aspects of localization. The topics of the conference will include mathematical progress on Anderson's model in various dimensions, applications of the landscape function, graphical representations and random walk models associated with localization/delocalization questions, and percolation perspectives on random waves.

Schedule

List of Participants