• 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 […]

  • Spectral gap and two-point functions in spin glasses

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Changji Xu Title: Spectral gap and two-point functions in spin glasses Abstract: Many have worked on spin glass models over the past 50 years, including physicists, mathematicians, […]

  • Unexpected Uses of Neural Networks: Field Theory and Metric Flows  

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

    Speaker: James Halverson (Northeastern University)   Title: Unexpected Uses of Neural Networks: Field Theory and Metric Flows Abstract:  We are now quite used to the idea that deep neural networks may be trained […]

  • Recent progress on coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills dynamics

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal Title: Recent progress on coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills dynamics Abstract: I will discuss my recent work with prof. S.T. Yau on Einstein-Yang-Mills theory. I’ll discuss the main […]

  • Black hole collider physics

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

    Speaker: Julio Parra Martinez, Caltech Title: Black hole collider physics Abstract: Despite more than a century since the development of Einstein’s theory, the general relativistic two-body problem remains unsolved. A […]

  • On complete Calabi-Yau metrics and some related Monge-Ampere equations

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Freid Tong Title: On complete Calabi-Yau metrics and some related Monge-Ampere equations Abstract: We will give a basic introduction to constructions for complete Calabi-Yau metrics. A systematic […]

  • Boundary behavior at classical and quantum phase transitions

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

    Speaker: Max Metlitski (MIT) Title: Boundary behavior at classical and quantum phase transitions Abstract: There has been a lot of recent interest in the boundary behavior of materials. This interest is driven […]

  • Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools

    Virtual

    https://youtu.be/UID_oXuN-0Y New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Timo Schick, Meta AI Title: Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools Abstract: Language models exhibit remarkable abilities to solve new […]

  • Toroidal Positive Mass Theorem

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Aghil Alaee Title: Toroidal Positive Mass Theorem Abstract: In this talk, we review the positive mass conjecture in general relativity and prove a toroidal version of this conjecture in an […]