• Abundance for mixed characteristic threefolds

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

    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

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

    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 […]

  • Foundation Seminar

    Ringdown in the SYK model

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

    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 […]

  • Mathematics around Twisted Holography

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

    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: Noam Elkies

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Noam Elkies, Harvard Math Topic: How to show E8 and Leech lattices have optimal sphere packings?

  • Communication Complexity of Combinatorial Auctions

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

    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 […]

  • Symplectic duality in examples

    Science Center Hall E 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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 […]

  • Infinite Limits and Scaling Laws for Deep Neural Networks

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

    https://youtu.be/0998FJhPdj8 New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Blake Bordelon Title: Infinite Limits and Scaling Laws for Deep Neural Networks Abstract: Scaling up the size and training horizon of deep learning models has enabled […]

  • Going to the other side …. in algebra, topology, and maybe physics

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

    Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Speaker: Sergei Gukov (Caltech) Title: Going to the other side .... in algebra, topology, and maybe physics Abstract: Inspired by Eugene Wigner's reflections on […]