• New bounds on lattice covering volumes, and nearly uniform covers

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Barak Weiss   Title: New bounds on lattice covering volumes, and nearly uniform covers Abstract: Let L be a lattice in R^n and let K be a convex body. […]

  • The string/black hole transition in anti de Sitter space

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

    Speaker: Erez Urbach, Weizmann Institute of Science Title: The string/black hole transition in anti de Sitter space Abstract: String stars, or Horowitz-Polchinski solutions, are string theory saddles with normalizable condensates of […]

  • Categorical Symmetry of the Standard Model from Gravitational Anomaly 

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Juven Wang Title: Categorical Symmetry of the Standard Model from Gravitational Anomaly Abstract: In the Standard Model, the total "sterile right-handed" neutrino number n_{νR} is not equal to […]

  • Conformal symmetry, Optimization algorithms and the Critical Phenomena

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

    Speaker: Ning Su, University of Pisa Title: Conformal symmetry, Optimization algorithms and the Critical Phenomena Abstract: In the phase diagram of many substances, the critical points have emergent conformal symmetry […]

  • How to steer foundation models?

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

    https://youtu.be/ztk5TPYTKZA New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Jimmy Ba, University of Toronto Title: How to steer foundation models? Abstract: By conditioning on natural language instructions, foundation models and large language […]

  • Randomized algorithms in combinatorics

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Michael Simkin Title: Randomized algorithms in combinatorics Abstract: Randomized algorithms have been a computational workhorse for almost as long as there have been computers. Surprisingly, such algorithms can […]

  • Quantum Gravity constraints beyond asymptotic regimes

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Max Wiesner Title: Quantum Gravity constraints beyond asymptotic regimes Abstract: Not every effective field theory that is consistent in the absence of gravity can be completed to a […]

  • Synchronization in a Kuramoto Mean Field Game

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

    Speaker: Mete Soner (Princeton University) Title: Synchronization in a Kuramoto Mean Field Game Abstract:  Originally motivated by systems of chemical and biological oscillators, the classical Kuramoto model has found an amazing range of applications […]

  • Monotonicity of quasilocal mass for asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Jue Liu Title: Monotonicity of quasilocal mass for asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds Abstract: The study of quasilocal mass in general relativity has a long history. In previous papers by many […]

  • Scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory

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

    Speaker: Ruth Britto (Trinity College Dublin) Title: Scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory Abstract: Particle collider experiments require a detailed description of scattering events, traditionally computed through sums of Feynman […]

  • Black hole microstate counting from the gravitational path integral

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

    Colloquium Speaker: Luca Iliesiu, Stanford Title: Black hole microstate counting from the gravitational path integral Abstract: Reproducing the integer count of black hole micro-states from the gravitational path integral is an important problem […]

  • Optimal Dynamic Allocation: Simplicity through Information Design

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Faidra Monachou Title: Optimal Dynamic Allocation: Simplicity through Information Design Abstract: We study dynamic nonmonetary markets where objects are allocated to unit-demand agents with private types. An agent’s […]