• On the Breakdown of Einstein’s Gravity

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

    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

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

    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

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

    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

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

    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 […]

  •  On Provable Copyright Protection for Generative Model

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

    Speaker: Boaz Barak (Harvard) Title: On Provable Copyright Protection for Generative Model Abstract: There is a growing concern that learned conditional generative models may output samples that are substantially similar to some copyrighted […]

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 10/24/23

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Xi Yin (Harvard Physics) and Peter Kronheimer (Harvard Math) Topics: Xi Yin: What is string field theory? Peter Kronheimer: What is Seiberg-Witten theory?

  • Llemma: an open language model for mathematics

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

    https://youtu.be/bRHb-MVExJ4 New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Sean Welleck, CMU, Language Technologies Institute Title: Llemma: an open language model for mathematics Abstract: We present Llemma: 7 billion and 34 billion […]

  • Extension of pluricanonical forms in positive and mixed characteristics

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio (CMSA) Title: Extension of pluricanonical forms in positive and mixed characteristics Abstract: The geometry of a complex manifold $X$ is to a large extent determined by its […]

  • Homotopy categories of rings: some properties and consequences in module categories

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

    Speaker: Manuel Cortés-Izurdiaga (University of Malaga) Title:  Homotopy categories of rings: some properties and consequences in module categories Abstract: Given a non-necessarily commutative ring with unit and an additive subcategory of […]

  • Deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models and their fibers

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Zi Yang Kang Title: Deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models and their fibers Abstract: In mirror symmetry, the dual object to a Fano variety is a Landau-Ginzburg model. Broadly, a […]

  • Impossibility results in classical dynamical systems

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

    Speaker: Matthew Foreman (UC Irvine) Title: Impossibility results in classical dynamical systems Abstract: In 1932, motivated by questions in statistical and celestial mechanics, von Neumann proposed classifying the statistical behavior of dynamical systems. In […]

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 11/7/2023

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Michael Hopkins (Harvard Math) and Minhea Popa (Harvard Math) Topics: Mike Hopkins: What are topological modular forms? Mihnea Popa: What is the abundance conjecture […]