Member Seminar
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Matteo Parisi, Harvard CMSA
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The DNA of Particle Scattering
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesColloquium Speaker: Lance Dixon (SLAC, Stanford University) Title: The DNA of Particle Scattering Abstract: At the Large Hadron Collider, the copious scattering of quarks and gluons in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) produces Higgs […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar 4/30/2024
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Question: What is morphogenesis? (Morphogenesis: geometry and biology)
Liouville Theory and Weil-Petersson Geometry
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesColloquium Speaker: Sarah Harrison (Northeastern University) Title: Liouville Theory and Weil-Petersson Geometry Abstract: Two-dimensional conformal field theory is a powerful tool to understand the geometry of surfaces. Liouville conformal field […]
On using ML for Economics
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Sergiy Verstyuk Title: On using ML for Economics Abstract: I will introduce some tools from the field of machine learning and discuss how they can be leveraged to get […]
On the landscape of 4d N=2 SCFTs
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Robert Moscrop, Harvard CMSA Title: On the landscape of 4d N=2 SCFTs Abstract: Four-dimensional conformal field theories with sufficient (N = 2) supersymmetry are highly constrained. So much […]
Errors and Correction in Cumulative Knowledge
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesColloquium Speaker: Madhu Sudan, Harvard University Title: Errors and Correction in Cumulative Knowledge Abstract: Societal accumulation of knowledge is a complex, and arguably error-prone, process. The correctness of new units […]
Quasilocal mass for general domains in space
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Jue Liu Title: Quasilocal mass for general domains in space Abstract: Diffeomorphism-invariant quasilocal mass in classical general relativity has been studied for decades, but it is still an […]
Combinatorics and geometry of the amplituhedron
Colloquium Speaker: Lauren Williams, Harvard University Title: Combinatorics and geometry of the amplituhedron Abstract: The amplituhedron is a geometric object introduced by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka to compute scattering amplitudes in […]
BPS Algebras in Landau-Ginzburg Models
Speaker: Ahsan Khan (CMSA) Title: BPS Algebras in Landau-Ginzburg Models Abstract: The study of BPS states in supersymmetric quantum field theory has been a fruitful source of both mathematical and […]
Abundance for mixed characteristic threefolds
Member Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio (CMSA) Title: Abundance for mixed characteristic threefolds Abstract: The Minimal Model Program (MMP) predicts that every algebraic variety X is birational to either a fibration […]
Freedman CMSA Seminar
Freedman CMSA Seminar 2:00-3:30 pm ET Speaker: Mike Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: Detecting hidden structures in linear maps Abstract: I'll consider the problem of detecting spectral features and tensor […]