Matilde Marcolli

Matilde Marcolli

Important Announcement

Unfortunately, due to the completely unmanageable volume of requests, I have to make a drastic decision on this matter. For the time being:

I DON'T GO TO CONFERENCES, I DON'T GIVE TALKS!

All other conference/lectures/seminars engagements are suspended indefinitely

Something about myself

"A drifter of Dadaist persuasion" (computational linguist, sometime physicist and occasional mathematician)

Current Positions:

History:
  • Ph.D. 1997, University of Chicago. Advisor Melvin Rothenberg, UChicago Math Department
  • (1997-2000): C.L.E. Moore Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Math Department
  • (2000-2008): Associate Professor, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
  • (2001-present) Courtesy Appointment: Mathematics Department Florida State University ( my webpage at FSU )
  • (2006-2010) Honorary Professorship, Bonn University
  • (2013-2018) Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • (2018-2020) Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics Department, University of Toronto and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics , Canada

  • A (more or less up-to-date) CV: curriculum and list of publications

    Research

  • Research Work (preprints and publications)
  • Other writings
  • Collaborators and PhD students
  • SURF students (undergraduate research projects)
  • Slides of talks

    Obituaries of Yuri Manin

    Generative Linguistics

    Editorial Work

    Past Editorial Work:

    Selected honors and Awards

    Teaching

  • Winter 2025 Ma148b: Topics in Mathematical Physics - Algebraic and Categorical Information Theory
  • Spring 2024 Ma191c: Mathematical Models of Generative Linguistics
  • Winter 2024 Ma142: Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
  • Winter 2024 Ma148: Topics in Mathematical Physics - Number Theory and Physics
  • Fall 2022 Ma148a Topics in Mathematical Physics - Motives and Periods in Quantum Field Theory
  • Fall 2021 Ma148a Topics in Mathematical Physics - Geometric and Categorical Information Theory
  • Fall 2021 Ma109a Introduction to Geometry and Topology
  • Winter 2021 Ma148b: Topics in Mathematical Physics - Introduction to Noncommutative Geometry Methods in Physics
  • Winter 2020 MAT1845HS: Introduction to Fractal Geometry and Chaos Theory (University of Toronto)
  • Winter 2019 MAT1509HS: Mathematical and Computational Linguistics (University of Toronto)
  • Winter 2019 MAT1314HS: Introduction to Noncommutative Geometry (University of Toronto)
  • Fall 2017 Ma109a Geometry and Topology
  • Spring 2017 Ma4 Fractal Geometry and Chaos Theory
  • Spring 2017 Ma148c Topics in Mathematical Physics: Geometry and Physics of Information
  • Winter 2017 Ma191b Geometry of Neuroscience (taught jointly with Prof. Doris Tsao of CNS)
  • Spring 2016 Ma191c: Quantum Statistical Mechanics and Noncommutative Geometry in Number Theory
  • Spring 2016 Ma148c: Topics in Mathematical Physics: Geometry and Physics of Information
  • Winter 2016 Ma148b : Topics in Mathematical Physics: Noncommutative Geometry Models for Particle Physics and Cosmology
  • Winter 2015 CS 101 : Mathematical and Computational Linguistics
  • Fall 2014 Ma 148 Geometry and Physics of Information
  • Fall 2014 Ma 2 Ordinary Differential Equations
  • Spring 2014 Ma 191 : Motives and Quantum Field Theory
  • Spring 2014 Ma4 : Fractal Geometry and Chaos Theory
  • Winter 2014 Ma 191 b, Section 6 : Motives and Periods
  • Fall 2012 Ma 148 a Mathematical Physics: The Geometry of Quantum States
  • Fall 2012 Ma 2a P Ordinary Differential Equations
  • Winter 2012 Ma 193b Topics in Geometry and Physics
  • Fall 2011 Sanskrit for Modern Scientists
  • Fall 2011 Ma 10 Oral Presentation, aka the (Martial) Art of Giving Talks
  • Fall 2011 Ma 1a Calculus
  • Spring 2011 Ma 4 Fractal Geometry and Chaos
  • Spring 2011 Ma 148c Mathematical Physics : Quantum Mechanics for mathematicians
  • Fall 2010 Ma 2 a Ordinary Differential Equations
  • Winter 2010 Ma 140 b Noncommutative Geometry, Part I
  • Spring 2010 Ma 191 c Noncommutative Geometry, Part II
  • Fall 2008 Ma 192 a Geometry and Arithmetic of Quantum Fields

    Travel Calendar

  • 2017
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009

    Petition to reopen the Caltech bookstore

    An online petition to reopen the Caltech bookstore, and a more detailed document with reasons why I believe this is important: Why the bookstore?