CMSA Q&A Seminar

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?

CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Xi Yin (Harvard Physics) and Peter Kronheimer (Harvard Math) Topics: Xi Yin: What is string field theory? Peter Kronheimer: What is Seiberg-Witten theory?

CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Michael Hopkins (Harvard Math) and Minhea Popa (Harvard Math) Topics: Mike Hopkins: What are topological modular forms? Mihnea Popa: What is the abundance conjecture and why should it to be true?  

CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Mike Douglas (Harvard CMSA) and Anurag Anshu (Harvard Computer Science) Topics: Mike Douglas: What are scaling laws in deep learning? Anurag Anshu: What's the difference between classical information theory and quantum information theory (or classical computation vs quantum computation)?  

CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Greg Moore, Rutgers University Question: What is supersymmetry?

CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Solomon Friedberg, Boston College Question: What is the Langlands program?

CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed Question: What are Higgs bundles?

CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Cumrun Vafa Question: What is swampland?

CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Yannai Gonczarowski, Harvard University Question: What do people mean when they say 'the intersection between theoretical computer science and economic theory'?

CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Arthur Jaffe, Harvard University Question: What is mathematical picture language?

CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Cengiz Pehlevan, Harvard Question: What is feature learning?

CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Melanie Weber, Harvard Question: What is the Ricci curvature of a graph?