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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Learning and inference from sensitive data
Speaker: Adam Smith (Boston University) Title: Learning and inference from sensitive data Abstract: Consider an agency holding a large database of sensitive personal information—say, medical records, census survey answers, web searches, or genetic data. The agency would […]
Neural diffusion PDEs, differential geometry, and graph neural networks
https://youtu.be/7KMcXHwQzZs Speaker: Michael Bronstein, University of Oxford and Twitter Title: Neural diffusion PDEs, differential geometry, and graph neural networks Abstract: In this talk, I will make connections between Graph Neural […]
Survey on stability of the positive mass theorem
Member Seminar Speaker: Dan Lee Title: Survey on stability of the positive mass theorem Abstract: The Riemannian positive mass theorem states that a complete asymptotically flat manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature must […]
CMSA Colloquium
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 […]
Tetrahedron instantons and M-theory indices
Colloquium Speaker: Wenbin Yan (Tsinghua University) Title: Tetrahedron instantons and M-theory indices Abstract: We introduce and study tetrahedron instantons. Physically they capture instantons on $\mathbb{C}^{3}$ in the presence of the most general […]
Toward Demystifying Transformers and Attention
https://youtu.be/MSw8HV0eHo8 Speaker: Ben Edelman, Harvard Computer Science Title: Toward Demystifying Transformers and Attention Abstract: Over the past several years, attention mechanisms (primarily in the form of the Transformer architecture) have revolutionized deep […]
Amplituhedra, Scattering Amplitudes and Triangulations
Member Seminar Speaker: Matteo Parisi Title: Amplituhedra, Scattering Amplitudes and Triangulations Abstract: In this talk I will discuss about Amplituhedra – generalizations of polytopes inside the Grassmannian – recently introduced by […]
Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondences for harmonic bundles and monopoles
Speaker: Takuro Mochizuki (Kyoto University) Title: Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondences for harmonic bundles and monopoles Abstract: In 1960's, Narasimhan and Seshadri discovered the equivalence between irreducible unitary flat bundles and stable bundles of degree […]
Bootstrapping hyperbolic manifolds
https://youtu.be/updzX0XPYU4 Speaker: James Bonifacio, Cambridge DAMTP Title: Bootstrapping hyperbolic manifolds Abstract: Hyperbolic manifolds are a class of Riemannian manifolds that are important in mathematics and physics, playing a prominent role […]
Quadratic reciprocity from a family of adelic conformal field theories
Member Seminar Speaker:An Huang Title: Quadratic reciprocity from a family of adelic conformal field theories Abstract: This talk aims to provide a physics framework to understand quadratic reciprocity. Specifically, we consider […]
Holographic Cone of Average Entropies and Universality of Black Holes
Speaker: Bartek Czech, Tsinghua University Title: Holographic Cone of Average Entropies and Universality of Black Holes Abstract: In the AdS/CFT correspondence, the holographic entropy cone, which identifies von Neumann entropies of CFT […]