• The Tree Property and uncountable cardinals

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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. […]

  • Explicit Ramsey Graphs and Two Source Extractors

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: David Zuckerman, Harvard CMSA/University of Texas at Austin Title: Explicit Ramsey Graphs and Two Source Extractors Abstract: Ramsey showed that any graph on N nodes contains a clique or independent […]

  • Clique listing algorithms

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Virginia Vassilevska Williams (MIT) Title: Clique listing algorithms Abstract: A k-clique in a graph G is a subgraph of G on k vertices in which every pair of vertices […]