• 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 […]

  • Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs): An Analytical Perspective

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

    Speaker: Xin Guo, UC Berkeley Title: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs): An Analytical Perspective Abstract: Generative models have attracted intense interests recently. In this talk, I will discuss one class of generative models, […]

  • Modern Hopfield Networks for Novel Transformer Architectures

    Virtual

    https://youtu.be/5LXiQUsnHrI New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Dmitry Krotov, IBM Research - Cambridge Title: Modern Hopfield Networks for Novel Transformer Architectures Abstract: Modern Hopfield Networks or Dense Associative Memories are […]

  • Quantum information and extended topological quantum field theory 

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Gabriel Wong Title: Quantum information and extended topological quantum field theory Abstract: Recently, ideas from quantum information theory have played an important role in condensed matter and […]

  • Quantum UV-IR map and curve counts in skeins

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Sunghyuk Park Title: Quantum UV-IR map and curve counts in skeins Abstract: Quantum UV-IR map (a.k.a. q-nonabelianization map), introduced by Neitzke and Yan, is a map from UV […]

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 9/19/2023

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

    Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math and CMSA), Denis Auroux (Harvard Math)

  • Modularity of Landau-Ginzburg Models

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Chuck Doran Title: Modularity of Landau-Ginzburg Models Abstract:  Fano varieties are the basic building blocks of algebraic varieties.  Smooth Fano varieties have been classified in dimensions one (the projective line), […]

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 9/26/2023

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Michael Douglas (CMSA) and Mayuko Yamashita (Kyoto University) Topics: Michael Douglas: "What is non-commutative field theory?" Mayuko Yamashita: "What is differential cohomology?"