CMSA Colloquium 9/15/2021 – 5/25/2022
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 […]
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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
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. […]
Knowledge Graph Embeddings and Inference
Member Seminar Speaker: Michael Douglas Title: Knowledge Graph Embeddings and Inference Abstract: A knowledge graph (KG) is a data structure which represents entities and relations as the vertices and edges of […]
Knot homology and sheaves on the Hilbert scheme of points on the plane
Speaker: Alexei Oblomkov (University of Massachusetts) Title: Knot homology and sheaves on the Hilbert scheme of points on the plane Abstract: The knot homology (defined by Khovavov, Rozansky) provide us […]
Computer-Aided Mathematics and Satisfiability
https://youtu.be/4wHwqYrCqVQ Speaker: Marijn Heule, Carnegie Mellon University Title: Computer-Aided Mathematics and Satisfiability Abstract: Progress in satisfiability (SAT) solving has made it possible to determine the correctness of complex systems and […]
C-P-T Fractionalization, and Quantum Criticality Beyond the Standard Model
Member Seminar Speaker: Juven Wang Title: C-P-T Fractionalization, and Quantum Criticality Beyond the Standard Model Abstract: Discrete spacetime symmetries of parity P or reflection R, and time-reversal T, act naively […]
Categorification and applications
Speaker: Peng Shan (Tsinghua University) Title: Categorification and applications Abstract: I will give a survey of the program of categorification for quantum groups, some of its recent development and applications to representation theory.
Wall-crossing from Higgs bundles to vortices
Speaker: Du Pei Title: Wall-crossing from Higgs bundles to vortices Abstract: Quantum field theories can often be used to uncover hidden algebraic structures in geometry and hidden geometric structures in […]
Anisotropy, biased pairing theory and applications
Speaker: Karim Adiprasito, Hebrew University and University of Copenhagen Title: Anisotropy, biased pairing theory and applications Abstract: Not so long ago, the relations between algebraic geometry and combinatorics were strictly governed […]
Why explain mathematics to computers?
https://youtu.be/rRGh97sOtKE Speaker: Patrick Massot, Laboratoire de Mathématiques d’Orsay and CNRS Title: Why explain mathematics to computers? Abstract: A growing number of mathematicians are having fun explaining mathematics to computers using […]