2019 Bott Lectures
On April 9 and 10, 2019 the CMSA hosted two lectures by Mina Aganagic (UC Berkeley). This was the second annual Math Science Lecture Series held in honor of Raoul […] ...
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On April 18, 2019 Harvard CMSA hosted the inaugural Yip lecture. This lecture takes place thanks to the support of Dr. Shing-Yiu Yip. This year’s speaker was Peter Galison (Harvard […] ...
Read MoreExistence and Uniqueness of Stationary Solutions in 5-Dimensional Minimal Supergravity
New paper by Aghil Alaee et. al.: Title: Existence and Uniqueness of Stationary Solutions in 5-Dimensional Minimal Supergravity Abstract: We study the problem of stationary bi-axially symmetric solutions of the 5-dimensional minimal supergravity […] ...
Read MoreVideos from the Workshop on Invariance and Geometry in Sensation, Action and Cognition
As part of the program on Mathematical Biology a workshop on Invariance and Geometry in Sensation, Action and Cognition took place on April 15-17, 2019. View the videos in the youtube […] ...
Read MoreBefore the Big Bang
Zhong-Zhi Xianyu and collaborators propose a new way to probe universe before the Big Bang. This research supported by the CMSA and BHI. ...
Read MoreViewing the universe as a ‘Cosmological Collider’
CMSA Postdoc Zhong-Zhi Xianyu and colleagues’ latest research examines residual radiation from the Big Bang and their relation to the elementary particles in the Standard Model of particle physics. Studying […] ...
Read MoreQuantum Yang-Mills 4d Theory and Time-Reversal Symmetric 5d Higher-Gauge TQFT: Anyonic-String/Brane Braiding Statistics to Topological Link Invariants
New Publication from Zheyan Wan, Juven Wang, Yunqin Zheng: Title: Quantum Yang-Mills 4d Theory and Time-Reversal Symmetric 5d Higher-Gauge TQFT: Anyonic-String/Brane Braiding Statistics to Topological Link Invariants .Abstract: We explore various 4d […] ...
Read MoreA New SU(2) Anomaly
New publication from Juven Wang, Xiao-Gang Wen, and Edward Witten: Title: A New SU(2) Anomaly Abstract: A familiar anomaly affects SU(2) gauge theory in four dimensions: a theory with an odd […] ...
Read MoreAsymptotically flat extensions with charge
New publication by Aghil Alaee et al. Title: Asymptotically flat extensions with charge Abstract: The Bartnik mass is a notion of quasi-local mass which is remarkably difficult to compute. Mantoulidis and […] ...
Read MoreKummer Rigidity for K3 Surface Automorphism vis Ricci-Flat Metrics
New Publication by Valentino Tosatti: Title: Kummer Rigidity for K3 Surface Automorphism vis Ricci-Flat MetricsAbstract: We give an alternative proof of a result of Cantat & Dupont, showing that any automorphism […] ...
Read MoreTwo New Publications by Artan Sheshmani
Title: Localized Donaldson-Thomas theory of surfaces (To be published in American Journal of Mathematics) Abstract: Let S be a projective simply connected complex surface and L be a line bundle on S. […] ...
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