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  • A leisurely stroll through the theory of adjunctions

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Lorenzo Riva, Harvard CMSA Title: A leisurely stroll through the theory of adjunctions Abstract: Adjoint functors (and, more generally, adjunctions in a 2-category) are ubiquitous in algebra […]

  • Geometric structures on gauge theoretic moduli spaces

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani (CMSA) Title: Geometric structures on gauge theoretic moduli spaces Abstract: Motivated by Witten’s study of instantons on S3 x S1, we survey […]

  • Topics in the Relation of Four-Manifold Invariants and Supersymmetric Field Theory

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

    Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar Speaker: Greg Moore, Rutgers University Title: Topics in the Relation of Four-Manifold Invariants and Supersymmetric Field Theory Abstract: We will begin with a review of topological […]

  • Constructing oriented TQFTs from twisted pivotal tensor categories

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

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: William Stewart Title: Constructing oriented TQFTs from twisted pivotal tensor categories Abstract: The cobordism hypothesis classifies n-dimensional oriented TQFTs in terms of SO(n) homotopy […]

  • Theory of Task-Adapted Dynamics in Large Recurrent Neural Networks

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Blake Bordelon, CMSA Title: Theory of Task-Adapted Dynamics in Large Recurrent Neural Networks Abstract: Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) encode expressive and flexible dynamical systems which can adapt […]

  • Abelian duality via derived geometry

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

    Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Owen Gwilliam, Umass Amherst Title: Abelian duality via derived geometry Abstract: We discuss how to synthesize differential cohomology and the BV formalism […]

  • Facets of link homology

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

    Colloquium Speaker: Mikhail Khovanov, Johns Hopkins University Title: Facets of link homology Abstract: We will review some link homology theories of algebraic origin and their connections to representation theory and […]

  • Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speakers: Max Hübner and Saman Habibi Esfahani

  • Scaling Stochastic Momentum from Theory to LLMs

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

    New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Courtney Paquette, McGill University Title: Scaling Stochastic Momentum from Theory to LLMs Abstract: Given the massive scale of modern ML models, we now often get only […]

  • Higher Symmetries, Eta Invariants and Anomaly Theories 

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

    Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar Speaker: Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania Title: Higher Symmetries, Eta Invariants and Anomaly Theories Abstract: In recent years, much progress has been made in understanding the extra-dimensional […]