Member Seminar
Member Seminar Speaker: Lorenzo Riva, CMSA Title: Un-extending extended TQFTs Abstract: An ordinary topological quantum field theory (TQFT) assigns invariants to manifolds of dimensions n in a way that is compatible with […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Lorenzo Riva, CMSA Title: Un-extending extended TQFTs Abstract: An ordinary topological quantum field theory (TQFT) assigns invariants to manifolds of dimensions n in a way that is compatible with […]
Colloquium Speaker: Mehran Kardar, MIT Title: Life on a Noisy Seascape: Extinction, Growth, and Diversity Abstract: Populations and communities rarely evolve in static environments; their fitness landscapes fluctuate across space and time, […]
Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Tomer Schlank Title: From Markov processes to path integrals Abstract: We will continue with Chapter 2 of the book and cover how we […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Denis Auroux, Harvard Title: What is Lagrangian Floer homology?
AI for the Working Mathematician Speaker: Harold Williams, USC Title: An Informal Introduction to Formal Proofs Abstract: In this talk we will give an introduction to Lean, a programming language […]
Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar Speaker: Tobias Ekholm, Uppsala Title: Skein valued curve counts and associatives Abstract: We consider Lagrangians in the cotangent bundle of a 3-manifold that give branch covers […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Aaron Landesman Title: Painlevé VI: the search for canonical representations Abstract: In 1902, Painlevé classified second order differential equations whose only movable singularities are poles, thereby obtaining […]
CMSA Special Seminar Speaker: Michael Brenner Title: A physical interpretation of recent singularity theorems Abstract: We present a physical interpretation of recent mathematical proofs (Córdoba and Martínez-Zoroa; Buckmaster and Apogee; […]
Colloquium Speaker: Subhabrata Sen, Harvard Statistics Title: Spectral Methods for signal recovery in multi-modal problems Abstract: Motivated by multi-modal estimation, we will study a multi-view spiked random matrix model in […]
Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Shaoyun Bai, MIT Title: What is a virtual fundamental cycle? (ICM Series: On the work of John Pardon) Abstract: One of Pardon’s important contribution to symplectic […]
Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar Speaker: John Alexander Cruz Morales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia