• Koszul duality in QFT

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

    Speaker: Brian Williams (Boston University) Title: Koszul duality in QFT Abstract: We will describe appearances of the algebraic phenomena of Koszul duality in the context of boundary conditions and defects […]

  • On the Power of Forward pass through Transformer Architectures

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

    https://youtu.be/JYt-ldZ3DqM New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Abhishek Panigrahi, Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University Title: On the Power of Forward pass through Transformer Architectures Abstract: Highly trained transformers are […]

  • A quasi-local mass in general relativity

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Aghil Alaee Title: A quasi-local mass in general relativity Abstract: One of the fundamental open problems in geometric analysis and mathematical relativity is constructing a (universal) energy/mass quantity to […]

  • The analytical challenges of connectomics

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

    Speaker: Jeff W. Lichtman (Harvard University) Title: The analytical challenges of connectomics Abstract: Recent progress in generating synapse-level maps of brains, a field known as connectomics, brings both opportunities and challenges. The […]

  • What do topological dynamics, combinatorics, and model theory have in common?

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

    Speaker: Dana Bartosova (University of Florida) Title: What do topological dynamics, combinatorics, and model theory have in common? Abstract: A striking correspondence between dynamics of automorphism groups of countable first order structures […]

  • An introduction to mixture of experts in deep learning

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Samy Jelassi Title: An introduction to mixture of experts in deep learning Abstract: Scale has opened new frontiers in natural language processing – but at a high cost. […]

  • Analysis of ALH* gravitational instantons

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

    Speaker: Xuwen Zhu (Northeastern) Title: Analysis of ALH* gravitational instantons Abstract: Gravitational instantons are non-compact Calabi-Yau metrics with L^2 bounded curvature and are categorized into six types. We will discuss one […]

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 12/5/2023

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Mike Douglas (Harvard CMSA) and Anurag Anshu (Harvard Computer Science) Topics: Mike Douglas: What are scaling laws in deep learning? Anurag Anshu: What's the difference […]

  • Open Problems in Physics and Novel Solutions from Math

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Juven Wang Title: Open Problems in Physics and Novel Solutions from Math   Abstract: (1) How do neutrinos obtain tiny mass and oscillate between e, \mu, \tau three […]

  • Homology, higher derived limits, and set theory

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

    Colloquium Speaker: Justin Moore (Cornell University) Title: Homology, higher derived limits, and set theory Abstract: Singular homology has a number of well-known defects when used to study spaces such as […]

  • On compactness phenomena

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Alejandro Poveda Title: On compactness phenomena Abstract: In this presentation I shall be preoccupied with compactness phenomena in set theory. Compactness is the phenomenon by which the local properties of […]

  • Approaches to the formalization of differential geometry

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

    https://youtu.be/oiOpudgC0J4 New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Heather Macbeth, Fordham University Title: Approaches to the formalization of differential geometry Abstract: In the last five years, there has been early work […]