Kieren James-Lubin

Office: 1006 Evans Hall
Email: ksjames[at]math[dot]berkeley[dot]edu

I am a third-year graduate student at UC-Berkeley, working in mathematical physics. My advisor is Nicolai Reshetikhin. I'm broadly interested in statistical mechanics. I focus on quantum many body systems, sampling methods and on applying some of the ideas of statistical mechanics to other fields. I passed my qualifying exam in April 2014.

Cryptocurrency

Conference I'm co-chairing an upcoming O'Reilly Media Conference, called:

An O'Reilly Radar Summit: Bitcoin & the Blockchain Realities, Risks, Rewards

The one-day, one-track conference kicks off January 27th at Ft. Mason in San Francisco.

CCRG I'm directing a 501(c)3 research group focused on the academic study of Cryptocurrencies called the Cryptocurrency Research Group (CCRG). Stay tuned for news on the CCRG!

I have a blog with some informal (but technical) posts on Cryptocurrency stuff.

Talks

• Automorphisms of Von Neumann Algebras and their Fixed Point Subalgebras, Math 209 (Von Neumann Algebras), UC-Berkeley, 03/14/2014
• The Free Energy Density of the XXZ model, recent results, Math 275 (Integrable Sytems), UC-Berkeley, 11/14/2013
• The Free Energy of the 6-vertex model at the Free Fermionic point, Math 275 (Integrable Systems), UC-Berkeley, 10/21/2013
• Super Poincare Algebras, SUSY Yang-Mills Seminar, UC-Berkeley, 03/22/2013
• Wiener Integrals and Path Integrals, Math 275, UC-Berkeley, 12/04/2012

Classes and Seminars

Spring 2014:

• Math 261B Lie Groups (Serganova).
• Math 209 Von Neumann Algebras (Voicelescu).

Fall 2013:

• Math 222A Partial Differential Equations (Dodson).
• Math 275 Integrable Systems (Reshetikhin).
• Student Integrable Systems Seminar.

Spring 2013:

• Math 215B Algebraic Topology (Zarev).
• Math 208 C*-algebras (Rieffel).
• Math 239 Discrete Mathematics for the Life Sciences (Pachter).
• Math 256B Algebraic Geometry (Nadler).
• SUSY Yang-Mills Seminar.

Fall 2012:

• Math 254A Number Theory (Yuan).
• Math 256A Algebraic Geometry (Borcherds).
• Math 275 Quantum Field Theory (Reshetikhin).

Teaching

Spring 2014: Math 16B Calculus (Coward). Fall 2013: Math 53: Multivariable Calculus (Auroux).