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 […]
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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: 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 […]
Existence of Canonical Metrics on Non-Kähler Geometry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgLS5ehdV0 On Wednesday September 9, CMSA director Prof. Shing-Tung Yau gave a lecture for the Simons foundation on Existence of Canonical Metrics on Non-Kähler Geometry. In this lecture, Prof. Yau […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Area-minimizing integral currents and their regularity
Camillo De Lellis (IAS) Title: Area-minimizing integral currents and their regularity Abstract: Caccioppoli sets and integral currents (their generalization in higher codimension) were introduced in the late fifties and early sixties to […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: From Deep Learning to Deep Understanding
Harry Shum (Tsinghua University) Title: From Deep Learning to Deep Understanding Abstract: In this talk I will discuss a couple of research directions for robust AI beyond deep neural networks. The first is […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: A personal story of the 4D Poincare conjecture
Michael Freedman (Microsoft – Station Q) Title: A personal story of the 4D Poincare conjecture Abstract: The proof of PC4 involved the convergence of several historical streams. To get started: high […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Immersions of manifolds and homotopy theory
Ralph Cohen (Stanford University) Title: Immersions of manifolds and homotopy theory Abstract: The interface between the study of the topology of differentiable manifolds and algebraic topology has been one of the richest […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Birational geometry
Vyacheslav V. Shokurov (Johns Hopkins University) Title: Birational geometry Abstract: About main achievements in birational geometry during the last fifty years. Talk chair: Caucher Birkar Video
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Kunihiko Kodaira and complex manifolds
Yujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo) Title: Kunihiko Kodaira and complex manifolds Abstract: Kodaira’s motivation was to generalize the theory of Riemann surfaces in Weyl’s book to higher dimensions. After quickly recalling the […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Knot Invariants From Gauge Theory in Three, Four, and Five Dimensions
Edward Witten (IAS) Title: Knot Invariants From Gauge Theory in Three, Four, and Five Dimensions Abstract: I will explain connections between a sequence of theories in two, three, four, and five dimensions and […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Classical and quantum integrable systems in enumerative geometry
Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University) Title: Classical and quantum integrable systems in enumerative geometry Abstract: For more than a quarter of a century, thanks to the ideas and questions originating in modern […]