• Threshold phenomena in random graphs and hypergraphs

    Member Seminar Speaker: Michael Simkin Title: Threshold phenomena in random graphs and hypergraphs Abstract: In 1959 Paul Erdos and Alfred Renyi introduced a model of random graphs that is the cornerstone […]

  • Hyperbolic Geometry and Quantum Invariants

    Virtual

    Speaker: Tian Yang (Texas A&M University) Title: Hyperbolic Geometry and Quantum Invariants Abstract: There are two very different approaches to 3-dimensional topology, the hyperbolic geometry following the work of Thurston and the quantum invariants […]

  • CMSA Colloquium 9/15/2021 – 5/25/2022

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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 […]

  • Geometry, Entanglement and Quasi Local Data

    Member Seminar Speaker: Itamar Shamir Title: Geometry, Entanglement and Quasi Local Data Abstract: I will review some general ideas about gravity as motivation for an approach based on quasi local quantities.

  • Stability and convergence issues in mathematical cosmology

    Member Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal Title: Stability and convergence issues in mathematical cosmology Abstract: The standard model of cosmology is built on the fact that while viewed on a sufficiently coarse-grained scale […]

  • Constructions in combinatorics via neural networks

    https://youtu.be/ufG0YLj_sik Speaker: Adam Wagner, Tel Aviv University Title: Constructions in combinatorics via neural networks Abstract: Recently, significant progress has been made in the area of machine learning algorithms, and they […]

  • Langlands duality for 3 manifolds

    Virtual

    Speaker: David Jordan (U Edinburgh) Title: Langlands duality for 3 manifolds Abstract: Langlands duality began as a deep and still mysterious conjecture in number theory, before branching into a similarly deep and mysterious conjecture of […]

  • Instability of naked singularities in general relativity

    Member Seminar Speaker: Jue Liu Title: Instability of naked singularities in general relativity Abstract: One of the fundamental problems in mathematical relativity is the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, proposed by Penrose, which […]

  • Strings, knots and quivers

    Virtual

    Speaker: Piotr Sułkowski (University of Warsaw) Title: Strings, knots and quivers Abstract: I will discuss a recently discovered relation between quivers and knots, as well as – more generally – toric Calabi-Yau […]

  • New results in Supergravity via ML Technology

    https://youtu.be/zJOWdZZcitk Speaker: Thomas Fischbacher, Google Title: New results in Supergravity via ML Technology Abstract: The infrastructure built to power the Machine Learning revolution has many other uses beyond Deep Learning. […]