During the 2021–2022 academic year, the CMSA will host a program on the so-called “Swampland.” The Swampland program aims to determine which low-energy effective field theories are consistent with nonperturbative quantum gravity considerations. Not […]
During the 2021–22 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Colloquium, organized by Du Pei, Changji Xu, and Michael Simkin. It will take place on Wednesdays at 9:30am – 10:30am (Boston time). The […]
During the Spring 2022 semester, the CMSA hosted a program on General Relativity. This semester-long program included four minicourses, a conference, and a workshop. General Relativity Mincourses: March–May, 2022 General […]
Minicourses General Relativity Program Minicourses During the Spring 2022 semester, the CMSA hosted a program on General Relativity. This semester-long program included four minicourses running in March, April, and May; […]
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0NRmB0fnLJTTVV5eLYJbJUHxi-3BipfS Schedule | April 4–8, 2022 Monday, April 4, 2022 Time (ET) Speaker Title/Abstract 9:30 am–10:30 am Pieter Blue, University of Edinburgh, UK (virtual) Title: Linear stability of the Kerr […]
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 such as the brain […]
Youtube Video Abstract: Characterizing many-body entanglement is one of the most important problems in quantum physics. We present our studies on the steady state von Neumann entropy and its transition […]
Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminar Speaker: Minh-Binh TRAN (SMU & MIT) Location: CMSA, Room G02 Title: On the wave turbulence theory for a stochastic KdV type equation Abstract: We report recent […]
Abstract: Gromov-Witten invariants of holomorphic symplectic 4-folds vanish and one can consider the corresponding reduced theory. In this talk, we will explain a definition of Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants for such a reduced […]