Quantum Matter Workshop
On December 2-4, 2019 the CMSA will be hosting a workshop on Quantum Matter as part of our program on Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics. The workshop will be […]
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Mirror symmetry, gauged linear sigma models, matrix factorizations, and related topics
On March 4-6, 2020 the CMSA will be hosting a three-day workshop on Mirror symmetry, Gauged linear sigma models, Matrix factorizations, and related topics as part of the Simons Collaboration on Homological Mirror […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Shiing-Shen Chern as a Great Geometer of 20th Century
Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard) Title: Shiing-Shen Chern as a Great Geometer of 20th Century Video | Slides | Article
Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Computation
Together with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the CMSA will be hosting a lecture series on the Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Computation. Talks in this series will aim to […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: The ADHM construction of Yang-Mills instantons
Simon Donaldson (Stony Brook) Title: The ADHM construction of Yang-Mills instantons Abstract: In 1978 (Physics Letters 65A) Atiyah, Hitchin, Drinfeld and Manin (ADHM) described a construction of the general solution of […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Why do some universities have separate departments of statistics?
Donald Rubin (Harvard) Title: Why do some universities have separate departments of statistics? And are they all anachronisms, destined to follow the path of other dinosaurs? Video | Slides
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Rationality questions in algebraic geometry
Joe Harris (Harvard) Title: Rationality questions in algebraic geometry Abstract: Over the course of the history of algebraic geometry, rationality questions — motivated by both geometric and arithmetic problems — have often driven […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Quantum Groups
Pavel Etingof (MIT) Title: Quantum Groups Abstract: The theory of quantum groups developed in mid 1980s from attempts to construct and understand solutions of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation, an important equation arising in […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Black Hole Formation
Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan) Title: Black Hole Formation Abstract: Can black holes form through the focusing of gravitational waves? This was an outstanding question since the early days of general relativity. […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: My life and times with the sporadic simple groups
Robert Griess (University of Michigan) Title: My life and times with the sporadic simple groups Abstract: Five sporadic simple groups were proposed in 19th century and 21 additional ones arose during […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: From string theory and Moonshine to vertex algebras
Bong Lian (Brandeis) Title: From string theory and Moonshine to vertex algebras Abstract: This is a brief survey of the early historical development of vertex algebras, beginning in the seventies from Physics […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Four-dimensional topology
Ciprian Manolescu (Stanford) Title: Four-dimensional topology Abstract: I will outline the history of four-dimensional topology. Some major events were the work of Donaldson and Freedman from 1982, and the introduction of […]