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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Dimers and webs
Speaker: Richard Kenyon (Yale) Title: Dimers and webs Abstract: We consider SL_n-local systems on graphs on surfaces and show how the associated Kasteleyn matrix can be used to compute probabilities of various […]
Scaling Laws and Their Implications for Coding AI
https://youtu.be/Suhp3OLASSo Speaker: Jared Kaplan, Johns Hopkins Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Title: Scaling Laws and Their Implications for Coding AI Abstract: Scaling laws and associated downstream trends can be used […]
Positive Mass, Density, and Scalar Curvature on Noncompact Manifolds
Member Seminar Speaker: Martin Lesourd Title: Positive Mass, Density, and Scalar Curvature on Noncompact Manifolds Abstract: I’ll describe some recent work spanning a couple of different papers on the topics mentioned in the […]
Side-effects of Learning from Low Dimensional Data Embedded in an Euclidean Space
Abstract: The low dimensional manifold hypothesis posits that the data found in many applications, such as those involving natural images, lie (approximately) on low dimensional manifolds embedded in a high dimensional Euclidean […]
Machine Learning 30 STEM Courses in 12 Departments
https://youtu.be/QaOZCa8SFvA Speaker: Iddo Drori, MIT EE&CS and Columbia School of Engineering Title: Machine Learning 30 STEM Courses in 12 Departments Abstract: We automatically solve, explain, and generate university-level course problems from […]
Moduli Space of Metric SUSY Graphs
Member Seminar Speaker: Yingying Wu Title: Moduli Space of Metric SUSY Graphs Abstract: SUSY curves are algebraic curves with additional supersymmetric or supergeometric structures. In this talk, I will present […]
Fluctuation scaling or Taylor’s law of heavy-tailed data, illustrated by U.S. COVID-19 cases and deaths
Speaker: Joel E. Cohen (Rockefeller University and Columbia University) Title: Fluctuation scaling or Taylor’s law of heavy-tailed data, illustrated by U.S. COVID-19 cases and deaths Abstract: Over the last century, ecologists, statisticians, physicists, […]
Formal Mathematics Statement Curriculum Learning
https://youtu.be/4zINaGrPc9M Speaker: Stanislas Polu, OpenAI Title: Formal Mathematics Statement Curriculum Learning Abstract: We explore the use of expert iteration in the context of language modeling applied to formal mathematics. We show […]
Periods for singular CY families and Riemann–Hilbert correspondence
Member Seminar Speaker: Tsung-Ju Lee Title: Periods for singular CY families and Riemann–Hilbert correspondence Abstract: A GKZ system, introduced by Gelfand, Kapranov, and Zelevinsky, is a system of partial differential equations generalizing […]
Edge Modes and Gravity
Speaker: Rob Leigh, UIUC Title: Edge Modes and Gravity Abstract: In this talk I first review some of the many appearances of localized degrees of freedom — edge modes — in […]
Memorizing Transformers
https://youtu.be/5AoOpFFjW28 Speaker: Yuhuai Wu, Stanford and Google Title: Memorizing Transformers Abstract: Language models typically need to be trained or fine-tuned in order to acquire new knowledge, which involves updating their weights. […]