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SUMMARY:Program on Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Program \nDates: April 15 – May 24\, 2024 \nLocation: Harvard CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nThis program will bring together and foster interaction between theoretical physicists and mathematicians working on various topics connected to recent developments in our understanding of scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. The field has advanced considerably since 2019 when the CMSA hosted the program “Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics\, Total Positivity and Motives.” Recent developments have primed this area for further significant advances\, which will be facilitated by bringing together many of the relevant experts for intensive discussion and collaboration. \nThe program will feature a weekly seminar series. \nTuesday\, April 16\, 2024\n4:15 pm\nSabrina Pasterski\, Perimeter Institute\nTitle: Radiation in Holography \n[Physics Talk]\nWednesday\, April 17\, 2024\n4:30 pm –  Cruft 309\nAna-Maria Raclariu\, King’s College London \nThursday\, April 18\, 2024\n4:15 pm\nLionel Mason\, University of Oxford\nTitle: Hidden symmetries of SD Poincare Einstein metrics in split signature \n[Physics Talk]\nTuesday\, April 23\, 2024\n4:30 pm – Jefferson 256\nJuan Maldacena\, Institute for Advanced Study \nThursday\, April 25\, 2024\n4:15 pm\nTomasz Taylor\, Northeastern University\nTitle: Progress in Yang-Mills-Liouville Theory \n[CMSA Colloquium]\nMonday\, April 29\, 2024\n4:30 – 5:30 pm\nLance Dixon\, Stanford\nTitle: The DNA of Particle Scattering \nTuesday\, April 30\, 2024\n9:00 am- Jefferson 453\nNima Arkani-Hamed\, IAS\nTitle: Surfaceology and the Real World Part 1 \n1:00 pm – Jefferson 453\nNima Arkani-Hamed\, IAS\nTitle: Surfaceology and the Real World Part 2 \n4:00 pm – Jefferson 453\nNima Arkani-Hamed\, IAS\nTitle: Surfaceology and the Real World Part 3 \nWednesday\, May 1\, 2024\n11:00 am – Science Center 507\nJaroslav Trnka\, UC Davis\nTitle: Loops of loops expansion in the Amplituhedron \n3:00 pm\nYu-tin Huang\, National Taiwan University\nTitle: Loop in trees: Chambers in amplitudes and correlation functions \n4:00 pm\nLivia Ferro\, University of Hertfordshire\nTitle: Scattering Amplitudes from Null-cone Geometry \n5:00 pm\nStephan Stieberger\, Max Planck Institute\nTitle: One-loop Double Copy Relation in String Theory and Twisted (Co)homology \nThursday\, May 2\, 2024\n11:00 am – Science Center 310\nDaniil Rudenko\, Chicago\nTitle: Introduction to Cluster Polylogarithms \nFriday\, May 3\, 2024\n11:00 am\nAndrew McLeod\, Edinburgh\nTitle: Genealogical Constraints on Feynman Integrals \nTuesday\, May 7\, 2024\n3:00 pm\nJacob Bourjaily\, Penn State\nTitle: The Algebraic and Transcendental Structure of Perturbative QFT \nWednesday\, May 8\, 2024\n3:00 pm\nRuth Britto\, Trinity\nTitle: Cuts and Symbols \nTuesday\, May 14\, 2024\n3:00 pm\nJames Drummond\, University of Southampton\nTitle: Multiple light-like Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory \nWednesday\, May 15\, 2024\n3:00 pm\nMatteo Parisi\, Harvard CMSA\nTitle: The amplituhedron and cluster algebras \nTuesday\, May 21\, 2024\n11:00 am\nMichael Borinsky\, ETH Zurich\nTitle: On the Euler characteristic of the commutative graph complex and the top-weight cohomology of the moduli space of curves \nWednesday\, May 22\, 2024\n11:00 am\nChaim Even-Zohar\, Technion\nTitle: Amplituhedron tiles and twistor polynomials \n  \nOrganizers: \n\nNima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study)\nMarcus Spradlin (Brown University)\nAndrew Strominger (Harvard University)\nAnastasia Volovich (Brown University)\nLauren Williams (Harvard University)\n\nParticipants: \n\n\nMichael Borinsky\, ETH Zurich\nJacob Bourjaily\, Pennsylvania State University\nRuth Britto\, Trinity College\nLance Dixon\, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center\nJames Drummond\, University of Southampton\nChaim Even-Zohar\, Technion\nLivia Ferro\, University of Hertfordshire\nCarolina Figueiredo\, Princeton University\nHadleigh Frost\, Oxford University\nBruno Gimenez\, University of Southampton\nOmer Gurdogan\, University of Southampton\nXuhua He\, Chinese University of Hong Kong\nPaul Heslop\, Durham University\nYu-Tin Huang\, National Taiwan University\nDani Kaufman\, University of Copenhagen\nJianrong Li\, University of Vienna\nTomasz Lukowski\, University of Hertfordshire\nYelena Mandelshtam\, University of California\, Berkeley\nLionel Mason\, University of Oxford\nAndrew McLeod\, University of Edinburgh\nNatalie Paquette\, University of Washington\nMatteo Parisi\, Harvard University\nSabrina Pasterski\, Perimeter Institute\nDmitri Pavlov\, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences\, Leipzig\nLizzie Pratt\, University of California\, Berkeley\nClaudia Rella\, University of Geneva\nDaniil Rudenko\, University of Chicago\nGiulio Salvatori\, Max Planck Institute for Physics\nMelissa Sherman-Bennett\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\nJonah Stalknecht\, University of Hertfordshire\nStephan Stieberger\, Max Planck Institute\nTomasz Taylor\, Northeastern University\nRan Tessler\, Weizmann Institute of Science\nHugh Thomas\, Université du Québec à Montréal\nJaroslav Trnka\, University of California\, Davis\nCristian Vergu\, Pennsylvania State University
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/scattering-amplitudes/
LOCATION:CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Programs
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SUMMARY:An analogue of non-interacting quantum field theory in Riemannian signature
DESCRIPTION:General Relativity Seminar \nSpeaker: Mikhail Molodyk\, Stanford \nTitle: An analogue of non-interacting quantum field theory in Riemannian signature \nAbstract: Recent advances using microlocal tools have led to constructions\, for wave operators on various classes of spacetimes\, of four distinguished Fredholm inverses which have the singular behavior required of retarded\, advanced\, Feynman\, and anti-Feynman propagators in QFT. Vasy and Wrochna have used these to define a QFT on asymptotically Minkowski spacetimes\, for which they construct Hadamard states described by asymptotic data at infinity. I will describe an analogue of this construction on Riemannian manifolds with two asymptotically conic ends\, defining quantum fields satisfying the Helmholtz equation and using scattering data to construct states satisfying a wavefront mapping-property version of the Hadamard condition. The absence of a spacetime interpretation lends itself to a sharper focus on the theory’s analytic structure\, from whose perspective the Feynman propagators are no less natural than the advanced/retarded ones. I will also highlight some differences between Feynman propagators defined as distinguished inverses and as time-ordered expectations. Based on joint work with András Vasy.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/general-relativity-51324/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Relativity Seminar
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SUMMARY:Improving Mean-Field Theory for Quantum Magnets
DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Junyi Zhang\, Johns Hopkins University \nTitle: Improving Mean-Field Theory for Quantum Magnets \nAbstract: Frustrated magnets have garnered significant attention because of their potential to host exotic spin liquids\, while many real material candidates exhibit magnetic orders.  Due to their proximity to spin liquid phases\, the semiclassical descriptions of these magnetic orders often fall short in capturing their intricate quantum behaviors. In this talk\, I will introduce an improved mean-field method\, named density-matrix mean-field theory (DMMFT)\, for these quantum magnets. Using local reduced density matrix\, DMMFT can systematically incorporate the quantum fluctuations beyond conventional mean-field theories. Notably\, it not only quantitatively evaluates the renormalization of order parameters induced by quantum fluctuations but also has the capability to detect the topological order of quantum phases. DMMFT offers an efficient approach to explore phases displaying unconventional quantum orders\, particularly beneficial for investigating frustrated spin systems in high spatial dimensions. \nRef: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06236
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_51324/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
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SUMMARY:Errors and Correction in Cumulative Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium \nSpeaker: Madhu Sudan\, Harvard University \nTitle: Errors and Correction in Cumulative Knowledge \nAbstract: Societal accumulation of knowledge is a complex\, and arguably error-prone\, process. The correctness of new units of knowledge depends not only on the correctness of the new reasoning\, but also on the correctness of old units that the new one builds on. If left unchecked\, errors could completely ruin the validity of most of this knowledge so there must some error-correcting going on. What are the error-corrections processes employed in nature and how effective are they? In this talk\, we describe our attempts to model such phenomena using probablistic models – we describe models for growth of cumulative knowledge\, emergence of errors and methods to check for errors and eliminate them. We then analyze in this compound model\, when effects of errors may survive\, and when they are totally eliminated. \nThe central discovery in our work is the following optimistic statement: If we do checking correctly (most of the time) investing just a constant factor (<1) of our effort in checking (and saving the remaining constant factor towards deriving new units of knowledge)\, then effects of errors can be kept in check. Notably the amount of effort expended on checking does not scale with the volume of total knowledge or the depth of dependencies in the new units of knowledge\, either of which would be overwhelming. \nBased on the papers: \nIs this correct? Let’s check!\nOmri Ben-Eliezer\, Dan Mikulincer\, Elchanan Mossel\, Madhu Sudan\narXiv:2211.12301 \nErrors are Robustly Tamed in Cumulative Knowledge Processes\nAnna Brandenberger\, Cassandra Marcussen\, Elchanan Mossel\, Madhu Sudan\narXiv:2309.05638
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-4124/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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