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Advances in Probability Theory and Interacting Particle Systems
Advances in Probability Theory and Interacting Particle Systems A conference in honor of S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. August 26 - August 28, 2024 Harvard Geological Lecture Hall LEARN MORE AND […]
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Instanton in Lattice QCD from Higher Categories and Higher Anafunctors
Instanton in Lattice QCD from Higher Categories and Higher Anafunctors
Speaker: Jing-Yuan Chen, Tsinghua University Title: Instanton in Lattice QCD from Higher Categories and Higher Anafunctors Abstract: Putting continuum QFT (not just TQFT) on the lattice is important for both fundamental understandings […]
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Mathematics and Machine Learning Program
Mathematics and Machine Learning Program Dates: September 3 - November 1, 2024 Location: Harvard CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 To receive announcements and updates, subscribe to the Mathematics […]
Mathematics and Machine Learning Program Opening Workshop
Mathematics and Machine Learning Program Opening Workshop Dates: September 3 - 5, 2024 Location: Room G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA & via Zoom Webinar AI for Mathematicians, with […]
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CMSA/Math Fall Gathering
CMSA/Math Fall Gathering
September 5, 2024 4:00 pm CMSA Common Room, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.
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Big Data Conference 2024
On September 6-7, 2024, the CMSA will host the tenth annual Conference on Big Data. The Big Data Conference features speakers from the Harvard community as well as scholars from […]
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Combinatorics and geometry of the amplituhedron
Combinatorics and geometry of the amplituhedron
Colloquium Speaker: Lauren Williams, Harvard University Title: Combinatorics and geometry of the amplituhedron Abstract: The amplituhedron is a geometric object introduced by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka to compute scattering amplitudes in […]
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BPS Algebras in Landau-Ginzburg Models
BPS Algebras in Landau-Ginzburg Models
Speaker: Ahsan Khan (CMSA) Title: BPS Algebras in Landau-Ginzburg Models Abstract: The study of BPS states in supersymmetric quantum field theory has been a fruitful source of both mathematical and […]
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Math and Machine Learning Lecture: Can AI help with hard mathematics?
Math and Machine Learning Lecture: Can AI help with hard mathematics?
Math and Machine Learning Lecture Date: Thursday, Sep. 12, 2024 Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm Location: Science Center & via Zoom Webinar In-person registration Zoom Webinar Registration Speaker: Geordie […]
Twisted Tools for (Untwisted) Quantum Field Theory
Twisted Tools for (Untwisted) Quantum Field Theory
Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Speaker: Justin Kulp (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics) Title:Â Twisted Tools for (Untwisted) Quantum Field Theory Abstract:Â One of the most important properties of QFTs is […]
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Abundance for mixed characteristic threefolds
Abundance for mixed characteristic threefolds
Member Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio (CMSA) Title: Abundance for mixed characteristic threefolds Abstract: The Minimal Model Program (MMP) predicts that every algebraic variety X is birational to either a fibration […]
Freedman CMSA Seminar
Freedman CMSA Seminar
Freedman CMSA Seminar 2:00-3:30 pm ET Speaker: Mike Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: Detecting hidden structures in linear maps Abstract: I'll consider the problem of detecting spectral features and tensor […]
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People at CMSA – Sep. 16-19, 2024
Full Name Role Office # Affiliation Dates Email Address Francois Charton Math AI Organizer 202 Meta AI fcharton@meta.com Fabian Ruehle Math AI Organizer G-14 Northeastern University f.ruehle@northeastern.edu Adam Wagner Math […]
Periodic pencils of flat connections and their p-curvature
Periodic pencils of flat connections and their p-curvature
Colloquium Speaker: Pavel Etingof (MIT) Title: Periodic pencils of flat connections and their p-curvature  A periodic pencil of flat connections on a smooth algebraic variety  is a linear family of flat […]
Ringdown in the SYK model
Ringdown in the SYK model
Joint BHI/CMSA Foundation Seminar Speaker:Â Matthew Dodelson (Harvard) Title: Ringdown in the SYK model Abstract: Thermal correlators in large N systems equilibrate at late times, but the precise late-time behavior is […]
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Mathematics around Twisted Holography
Mathematics around Twisted Holography
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Keyou Zeng (CMSA) Title: Mathematics around Twisted Holography Abstract: The holography principle is an important idea in physics and has been widely studied since […]
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CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Marc Lackenby
CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Marc Lackenby
CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am ET Location:Â Via Zoom Webinar Register for Zoom Webinar Speaker: Marc Lackenby, University of Oxford Title: […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Noam Elkies, Harvard Math Topic:Â How to show E8 and Leech lattices have optimal sphere packings?
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Feynman graph integrals from topological holomorphic theoriesÂ
Feynman graph integrals from topological holomorphic theoriesÂ
Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Minghao Wang (Boston University) Title: Feynman graph integrals from topological holomorphic theories Abstract: Feynman graph integrals from topological theories were developed by M. […]
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Communication Complexity of Combinatorial Auctions
Communication Complexity of Combinatorial Auctions
Member Seminar Speaker: Tomer Ezra (CMSA) Title: Communication Complexity of Combinatorial Auctions Abstract: We study the communication complexity of welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions with m items and two subadditive […]
Classification and Construction of crystalline topological superconductors and insulators in interacting fermion systems
Classification and Construction of crystalline topological superconductors and insulators in interacting fermion systems
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Zhengcheng Gu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Title: Classification and construction of crystalline topological superconductors and insulators in interacting fermion systems Abstract: The construction and classification […]
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Symmetry groups in infinite dimensions
Symmetry groups in infinite dimensions
Colloquium Speaker: Lisa Carbone, Rutgers University Title: Symmetry groups in infinite dimensions Abstract: The study of many physical theories requires an understanding of symmetries of infinite dimensional Lie algebras. The […]
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New Energy Inequality in AdS
New Energy Inequality in AdS
General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Diandian Wang, Harvard University Title: New Energy Inequality in AdS Abstract: I will describe evidence for a new energy inequality in asymptotically AdS spacetimes whose conformal […]
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Infinite Limits and Scaling Laws for Deep Neural Networks
Infinite Limits and Scaling Laws for Deep Neural Networks
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker:Â Blake Bordelon Title:Â Infinite Limits and Scaling Laws for Deep Neural Networks Abstract:Â Scaling up the size and training horizon of deep learning models has enabled breakthroughs […]