• 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?"

  • Transformers for maths, and maths for transformers

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

    https://youtu.be/Sc6k06wVX3s New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: François Charton, Meta AI Title:  Transformers for maths, and maths for transformers Abstract: Transformers can be trained to solve problems of mathematics. I present […]

  • Moduli of vector bundles on curve and semiorthogonal decomposition

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Kai Xu (CMSA) Title: Moduli of vector bundles on curve and semiorthogonal decomposition Abstract: In this talk we construct semiorthogonal decompositions of moduli of vector bundles on a […]

  • Gravitational Instantons

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

    Speaker: Yu-Shen Lin (Boston University) Title: Gravitational Instantons Abstract: Gravitational instantons were introduced by Hawking as building blocks of his Euclidean quantum gravity theory back in the 1970s. These are […]