10/27/2021 Colloquium
Speaker: Karim Adiprasito, Hebrew University and University of Copenhagen Title: Anisotropy, biased pairing theory and applications Abstract: Not so long ago, the relations between algebraic geometry and …
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Speaker: Karim Adiprasito, Hebrew University and University of Copenhagen Title: Anisotropy, biased pairing theory and applications Abstract: Not so long ago, the relations between algebraic geometry and …
Read moreSpeaker: Peng Shan, Tsinghua U Title: Categorification and applications Abstract: I will give a survey of the program of categorification for quantum groups, some of its recent …
Read moreSpeaker: Alexei Oblomkov, University of Massachusetts Title: Knot homology and sheaves on the Hilbert scheme of points on the plane. Abstract: The knot homology (defined …
Read moreSpeaker: Piotr Sulkowski, U Warsaw Title: Strings, knots and quivers Abstract: I will discuss a recently discovered relation between quivers and knots, as well as – more …
Read moreSpeaker: David Jordan, University of Edinburgh Title: Langlands duality for 3 manifolds Abstract: Langlands duality began as a deep and still mysterious conjecture in number theory, before …
Read moreSpeaker: Tian Yang, Texas A&M Title: Hyperbolic Geometry and Quantum Invariants Abstract: There are two very different approaches to 3-dimensional topology, the hyperbolic geometry following …
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Speaker: David Nelson (Harvard) Title: Statistical Mechanics of Mutilated Sheets and Shells Abstract: Understanding deformations of macroscopic thin plates and shells has a long and rich history, culminating …
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Venue: Virtual Speaker: Venkatesan Guruswami (UC Berkeley) Title: Long common subsequences between bit-strings and the zero-rate threshold of deletion-correcting codes Abstract: Suppose we transmit n bits on a noisy …
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Speaker: Yuri Manin (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics) Title: Quantisation in monoidal categories and quantum operads Abstract: The standard definition of symmetries of a structure given on …
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Speaker: Johannes Kleiner (LMU München) Title: What is Mathematical Consciousness Science? Abstract: In the last three decades, the problem of consciousness – how and why physical systems …
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