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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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. […]
Diffusive growth sourced by topological defects
Member Seminar Speaker: Farzan Vafa Title: Diffusive growth sourced by topological defects Abstract: In this talk, we develop a minimal model of morphogenesis of a surface where the dynamics of […]
What is Mathematical Consciousness Science?
Speaker: Johannes Kleiner, LMU München Title: What is Mathematical Consciousness Science? Abstract: In the last three decades, the problem of consciousness – how and why physical systems such as the brain […]
Synthetic Regression Discontinuity: Estimating Treatment Effects using Machine Learning
Speaker: Jörn Boehnke Title: Synthetic Regression Discontinuity: Estimating Treatment Effects using Machine Learning Abstract: In the standard regression discontinuity setting, treatment assignment is based on whether a unit’s observable score (running […]
Quantisation in monoidal categories and quantum operads
Abstract: The standard definition of symmetries of a structure given on a set S (in the sense of Bourbaki) is the group of bijective maps S to S, compatible with this […]
Long common subsequences between bit-strings and the zero-rate threshold of deletion-correcting codes
Speaker: Venkatesan Guruswami, UC Berkeley Title: Long common subsequences between bit-strings and the zero-rate threshold of deletion-correcting codes Abstract: Suppose we transmit n bits on a noisy channel that deletes some […]
Machine Learning the Gravity Equation for International Trade
Member Seminar Speaker: Sergiy Verstyuk Title: Machine Learning the Gravity Equation for International Trade Abstract: We will go through modern deep learning methods and existing approaches to their interpretation. Next, […]
Cobordism and Deformation Class of the Standard Model and Beyond: Proton Stability and Neutrino Mass
Member Seminar Speaker: Juven Wang Title: Cobordism and Deformation Class of the Standard Model and Beyond: Proton Stability and Neutrino Mass Abstract: ‘t Hooft anomalies of quantum field theories (QFTs) with […]
Statistical Mechanics of Mutilated Sheets and Shells
Speaker: David Nelson, Harvard University Title: Statistical Mechanics of Mutilated Sheets and Shells Abstract: Understanding deformations of macroscopic thin plates and shells has a long and rich history, culminating with the […]