• An Introduction to the Non-Perturbative Bootstrap

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Xi Yin (Harvard) Title: An Introduction to the Non-Perturbative Bootstrap Abstract: I will discuss non-perturbative definitions of quantum field theories, some properties of correlation functions of local operators, and give a brief […]

  • Communication Complexity of Randomness Manipulation

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Madhu Sudan (Harvard) Title: Communication Complexity of Randomness Manipulation Abstract: The task of manipulating randomness has been a subject of intense investigation in the theory of computer science. The classical definition of this […]

  • Emergence of graviton-like excitations from a lattice model

    Speaker: Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT) Title: Emergence of graviton-like excitations from a lattice model Abstract: I will review some construction of lattice rotor model which give rise to emergent photons and graviton-like excitations. The appearance of […]