4/27/2022 Colloquium
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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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 …
Read moreSpeaker: Wenbin Yan (Tsinghua University) Title: Tetrahedron instantons and M-theory indices Abstract: We introduce and study tetrahedron instantons. Physically they capture instantons on $\mathbb{C}^{3}$ in the presence …
Read moreSpeaker: Bartek Czech (Tsinghua University) Title: Holographic Cone of Average Entropies and Universality of Black Holes Abstract: In the AdS/CFT correspondence, the holographic entropy cone, which identifies von Neumann entropies of CFT …
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Speaker: Samir Mathur (Ohio State University) Title: The black hole information paradox Abstract: In 1975, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes radiate away in a manner that …
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Speaker: Rob Leigh (UIUC) Title: Edge Modes and Gravity Abstract: In this talk I first review some of the many appearances of localized degrees of freedom — edge …
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Speaker: Joel Cohen (University of Maryland) Title: Fluctuation scaling or Taylor’s law of heavy-tailed data, illustrated by U.S. COVID-19 cases and deaths Abstract: Over the last century, …
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Speaker: Yen-Hsi Richard Tsai (UT Austin) Title: Side-effects of Learning from Low Dimensional Data Embedded in an Euclidean Space Abstract: The low dimensional manifold hypothesis posits …
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Speaker: Richard Kenyon (Yale University) Title: Dimers and webs Abstract: We consider SL_n-local systems on graphs on surfaces and show how the associated Kasteleyn matrix can …
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