CMSA Q and A Seminar 9/26/2023
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?"
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Transformers for maths, and maths for transformers
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
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
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 […]
CMSA Q and A Seminar 10/3/2023
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math & CMSA) and Dan Berwick-Evans (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Topics: Dan Freed: What is framing anomaly? How is it different […]
Random matrices and large deviations
Member Seminar Speaker: Benjamin McKenna Title: Random matrices and large deviations Abstract: We give a generalist overview of random matrices and their (a)typical behaviors. In recent years, classical results have been complemented by […]
CMSA Q and A Seminar 10/10/23
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math and CMSA) and Sunghyuk Park (CMSA) Topics: Dan Freed: What is Dijkgraaf-Witten theory? Sunghyuk Park: What happened at the Clay Math Institute […]
LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
https://youtu.be/u-pkmdkQoMU New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Alex Gu, MIT Dept. of EE&CS Title: LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in proving formal […]
On the Breakdown of Einstein’s Gravity
Member Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal (CMSA) Title: On the Breakdown of Einstein's Gravity Abstract: It is important to understand under which conditions, the solutions of non-linear hyperbolic PDEs break down in finite […]
An exploration of infinite games—infinite Wordle and the Mastermind numbers
Speaker: Joel D. Hamkins (Notre Dame and Oxford) Title: An exploration of infinite games—infinite Wordle and the Mastermind numbers Abstract: Let us explore the nature of strategic reasoning in infinite games, focusing […]
Physics of Language Models: Knowledge Storage, Extraction, and Manipulation
https://youtu.be/M25cbX5do8Y New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Yuanzhi Li, CMU Dept. of Machine Learning and Microsoft Research Title: Physics of Language Models: Knowledge Storage, Extraction, and Manipulation Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can […]
Black Holes as Quantum Systems
Member Seminar Speaker: Daniel Kapec (CMSA) Title: Black Holes as Quantum Systems Abstract: To an outside observer, a black hole appears to be an ordinary quantum mechanical system with finite entropy and […]