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SUMMARY:Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott
DESCRIPTION:On October 4th and October 5th\, 2021\, Harvard CMSA will host its annual Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott. This year’s speaker will be Michael Freedman (Microsoft). The lectures will take place from 11:00am – 12:15pm (ET) on Zoom. \nThis will be the third annual lecture series held in honor of Raoul Bott. \n\n\n\n\nLecture 1\nOctober 4th\, 11:00am (Boston time)\nTitle: The Universe from a single Particle \nAbstract: I will explore a toy model  for our universe in which spontaneous symmetry breaking – acting on the level of operators (not states) – can produce the interacting physics we see about us from the simpler\, single particle\, quantum mechanics we study as undergraduates. Based on joint work with Modj Shokrian Zini\, see arXiv:2011.05917 and arXiv:2108.12709. \nVideo\n\n\nLecture 2\nOctober 5th\, 11:00am (Boston time)\nTitle: Controlled Mather Thurston Theorems. \nAbstract: The “c-principle” is a cousin of Gromov’s h-principle in which cobordism rather than homotopy is required to (canonically) solve a problem. We show that in certain well-known c-principle contexts only the mildest cobordisms\, semi-s-cobordisms\, are required. In physical applications\, the extra topology (a perfect fundamental group) these cobordisms introduce could easily be hidden in the UV. This leads to a proposal to recast gauge theories such as EM and the standard model in terms of flat connections rather than curvature. See arXiv:2006.00374   \nVideo\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/math-science-lectures-in-honor-of-raoul-bott/
LOCATION:CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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