CMSA Covid-19 Policies Fall 2022 All CMSA seminar and event participants must comply with all Harvard University Covid Safety Protocols. Individuals not affiliated with Harvard and individuals traveling to Harvard must follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) T ...
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The CMSA hosts a lecture series on literature in the mathematical sciences, with a focus on significant developments in mathematics that have influenced the discipline, and the lifetime accomplishments of significant scholars. Talks will take place virtually throughout the semest ...
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On December 9, 2021, Karen Uhlenbeck (IAS) gave a Zoom talk in the Mathematical Science Literature Lecture Series at the Harvard CMSA. Watch the talk on Youtube, below: Title: The Noether Theorems in Geometry: Then and Now Abstract: The 1918 Noether theorems were a product of ...
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On October 4-5, 2021, the CMSA hosted the virtual Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott. Talks were given by Michael Freedman (Microsoft). Watch the talks in the Youtube playlist, below. Lecture 1: The universe from a single particle Abstract: I will explore a toy model fo ...
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During the 2021–2022 academic year, the CMSA will host a program on the so-called “Swampland.” ...
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Scale-separated AdS4 vacua of IIA orientifolds and M-theoryN. Cribiori, D. Junghans, V. Van Hemelryck, T. Van Riet, and T. WrasePhys. Rev. D 104, 126014 – Published 13 December 2021 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.126014 Abstract: We revisit various ...
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On May 3, 2021, the CMSA hosted a symposium on Computational Biology. Over the course of two sessions, speakers discussed topics ranging from big data and medicine to “alien DNA.” You can learn more about this event, including watching videos of the talks on our ...
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Over the past year, the CMSA has hosted a lecture series on the literature of the mathematical sciences. The goal of this series is to highlight significant accomplishments in the intersection between mathematics and the sciences. Speakers include Edward Witten, Lydia Bieri, Simo ...
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Over the past few months, CMSA member Valentino Tosatti has authored the following papers. Preprints can be found in ArXiv. Diameter Bounds for Degenerating Calabi-Yau Metrics Yang Li and Valentino Tosatti Abstract. We obtain sharp upper and lower bounds for the diameter of Ricci ...
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Unwinding Fermionic SPT Phases: Supersymmetry ExtensionAbhishodh Prakash, Juven Wang DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.085130 We show how 1+1-dimensional fermionic symmetry-protected topological states (SPTs, i.e. nontrivial short-range entangled gapped phases of quantum matter whose bou ...
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Higher-rank tensor field theory of non-abelian fracton and embeddon by Juven Wang and Kai Xu has been published in Annals of Physics. Two new publications on ArXiv with Abhishodh Prakash: Unwinding Fermionic SPT Phases: Supersymmetry Extension Boundary supersymmetry of ...
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Title: Ricci-flat Metrics and Dynamics on K3 Surfaces Abstract: We give an overview of some recent interactions between the geometry of K3 surfaces and their Ricci-flat Kahler metrics and the dynamical study of K3 automorphisms with positive entropy. arXiv: 2003.06976 T ...
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Videos from the workshop are available in the Youtube playlist below. ...
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New preprint: Title: Non-Liquid Cellular States Abstract: The existence of quantum non-liquid states and fracton orders, both gapped and gapless states, challenges our understanding of phases of entangled matter. We generalize Wen’s cellular topological states to liqui ...
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