CMSA Q and A Seminar 9/19/2023
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math and CMSA), Denis Auroux (Harvard Math)
During the 2023–24 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Question and Answer (Q&A) Seminar, organized by Dan Freed and Sunghyuk Park.
The seminar will meet weekly on Tuesdays from 12:30–1:30 pm (Eastern Time) in the common room at the CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138.
CMSA members may submit questions and suggest possible speakers using this form (link).
Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math and CMSA), Denis Auroux (Harvard Math)
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Michael Douglas (CMSA) and Mayuko Yamashita (Kyoto University) Topics: Michael Douglas: "What is non-commutative field theory?" Mayuko Yamashita: "What is differential cohomology?"
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math & CMSA) and Dan Berwick-Evans (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Topics: Dan Freed: What is framing anomaly? How is it different from other anomalies? Dan Berwick-Evans: What is Atiyah-Singer index theorem?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math and CMSA) and Sunghyuk Park (CMSA) Topics: Dan Freed: What is Dijkgraaf-Witten theory? Sunghyuk Park: What happened at the Clay Math Institute Workshop?