Moduli spaces of graphs
Colloquium Speaker: Melody Chan, Brown Title: Moduli spaces of graphs Abstract: A metric graph is a graph—a finite network of vertices and edges—together with a prescription of a positive real […]
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Random determinants, the elastic manifold, and landscape complexity beyond invariance
Member Seminar Speaker: Ben McKenna Title: Random determinants, the elastic manifold, and landscape complexity beyond invariance Abstract: The Kac-Rice formula allows one to study the complexity of high-dimensional Gaussian random functions […]
The Tree Property and uncountable cardinals
Colloquium Speaker: Dima Sinapova (Rutgers University) Title: The Tree Property and uncountable cardinals Abstract: In the late 19th century Cantor discovered that there are different levels of infinity. More precisely […]
Statistical mechanics of neural networks: From the geometry of high dimensional error landscapes to beating power law neural scaling
https://youtu.be/SQlPI07LvUc New Technologies in Mathematics Speaker: Surya Ganguli, Stanford University Title: Statistical mechanics of neural networks: From the geometry of high dimensional error landscapes to beating power law neural scaling Abstract: Statistical […]
Kahler geometry in twisted materials
Member Seminar Speaker: Jie Wang Title: Kahler geometry in twisted materials Abstract: Flatbands are versatile platform for realizing exotic quantum phases due to the enhanced interactions. The canonical example is Landau […]
Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
https://youtu.be/HUTWime3d6w New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Guy Gur-Ari, Google Research Title: Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models Abstract: Quantitative reasoning tasks which can involve mathematics, science, and programming […]
Quantum statistical mechanics of charged black holes and strange metals
https://youtu.be/-Kjl8WehIPw Colloquium Please note this colloquium will be held at a special time: 4:00-5:00 pm. Speaker: Subir Sachdev (Harvard) Title: Quantum statistical mechanics of charged black holes and strange metals […]
Principal flow, sub-manifold and boundary
Member Seminar Speaker: Zhigang Yao Title: Principal flow, sub-manifold and boundary Abstract: While classical statistics has dealt with observations which are real numbers or elements of a real vector space, nowadays many […]
Complete disorder is impossible: Some topics in Ramsey theory
Colloquium Speaker: James Cummings,Carnegie Mellon University Title: Complete disorder is impossible: Some topics in Ramsey theory Abstract: The classical infinite Ramsey theorem states that if we colour pairs of natural […]
Quantum magnet chains and Kashiwara crystals
Speaker: Leonid Rybnikov, Harvard CMSA/National Research University Higher School of Economics Title: Quantum magnet chains and Kashiwara crystals Abstract: Solutions of the algebraic Bethe ansatz for quantum magnet chains are, generally, […]
The Mobility Edge of Lévy Matrices
Colloquium Speaker: Patrick Lopatto (Brown) Title: The Mobility Edge of Lévy Matrices Abstract: Lévy matrices are symmetric random matrices whose entry distributions lie in the domain of attraction of an […]
Towards Faithful Reasoning Using Language Models
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Antonia Creswell, DeepMind Title: Towards Faithful Reasoning Using Language Models Abstract: Language models are showing impressive performance on many natural language tasks, including question-answering. […]