• 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 […]

  • Anti-Iitaka conjecture in positive characteristic

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

    CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio (Harvard) Title: Anti-Iitaka conjecture in positive characteristic Abstract: Given a smooth projective variety, its Kodaira dimension kappa(K_X) is an important invariant that measures the rate of growth […]

  • On complete Calabi-Yau metrics and Monge-Ampere equations

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

    CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Freid Tong (Harvard CMSA) Title: On complete Calabi-Yau metrics and Monge-Ampere equations Abstract: Calabi-Yau metrics are central objects in K\"ahler geometry and also string theory. The existence of Calabi-Yau metrics on compact […]

  • AQFT Lecture Series | Minhyong Kim

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

    Arithmetic Quantum Field Theory Program Lecture Series Speaker: Minhyong Kim, University of Edinburgh Topic: Arithmetic topology and field theory Abstract: The setup of arithmetic topology as a bridge between the […]

  • AQFT Lecture Series | Brian Williams

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

    Arithmetic Quantum Field Theory Program Lecture Series Speaker: Brian Williams, Boston University Topic: Algebraic quantum field theory Abstract: Questions and structures in arithmetic that have been / might be amenable to […]

  • AQFT Lecture Series | David Ben-Zvi

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

    Arithmetic Quantum Field Theory Program Lecture Series Speaker: David Ben-Zvi Topic: The Langlands program via arithmetic QFT Abstract: Structures in QFT (like factorization for observables and functorial QFT for states […]