Recorded 28 March 2024. Terrence George of the University of California, Los Angeles, presents "Spectrum of the Ising model" at IPAM's Statistical Mechanics and Discrete Geometry Workshop. Abstract: I will discuss a correspondence between Ising models in a torus and algebro-geometric data, extending the correspondence between dimer models and Harnack curves and their Jacobians due to Kenyon and Okounkov. Learn more online at: https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/workshops/workshop-i-statistical-mechanics-and-discrete-geometry/