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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Joint BHI/CMSA Foundation Seminar Speaker: Matthew Dodelson (Harvard) Title: Ringdown in the SYK model Abstract: Thermal correlators in large N systems equilibrate at late times, but the precise late-time behavior is […]
Colloquium Speaker: Pavel Etingof (MIT) Title: Periodic pencils of flat connections and their p-curvature A periodic pencil of flat connections on a smooth algebraic variety is a linear family of flat […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Keyou Zeng (CMSA) Title: Mathematics around Twisted Holography Abstract: The holography principle is an important idea in physics and has been widely studied since […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Noam Elkies, Harvard Math Topic: How to show E8 and Leech lattices have optimal sphere packings?
Member Seminar Speaker: Tomer Ezra (CMSA) Title: Communication Complexity of Combinatorial Auctions Abstract: We study the communication complexity of welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions with m items and two subadditive […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Zhengcheng Gu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Title: Classification and construction of crystalline topological superconductors and insulators in interacting fermion systems Abstract: The construction and classification […]
Colloquium Speaker: Lisa Carbone, Rutgers University Title: Symmetry groups in infinite dimensions Abstract: The study of many physical theories requires an understanding of symmetries of infinite dimensional Lie algebras. The […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Vasily Krylov, Harvard CMSA & Math Title: Symplectic duality in examples Abstract: Over the past twenty years, mathematicians and physicists have shown increasing interest […]