The number of n-queens configurations
Speaker: Michael Simkin, Harvard CMSA Title: The number of n-queens configurations Abstract: The n-queens problem is to determine Q(n), the number of ways to place n mutually non-threatening queens on an […]
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9/23/2021 Interdisciplinary Science Seminar
Title: The number of n-queens configurations Abstract: The n-queens problem is to determine Q(n), the number of ways to place n mutually non-threatening queens on an n x n board. […]
10/7/2021 Interdisciplinary Science Seminar
Title: SiRNA Targeting TCRb: A Proposed Therapy for the Treatment of Autoimmunity Abstract: As of 2018, the United States National Institutes of Health estimate that over half a billion people worldwide are […]
D3C: Reducing the Price of Anarchy in Multi-Agent Learning
Speaker: Ian Gemp, DeepMind Title: D3C: Reducing the Price of Anarchy in Multi-Agent Learning Abstract: In multi-agent systems the complex interaction of fixed incentives can lead agents to outcomes that are poor […]
10/21/2021 Interdisciplinary Science Seminar
Title: Mathematical resolution of the Liouville conformal field theory. Abstract: The Liouville conformal field theory is a well-known beautiful quantum field theory in physics describing random surfaces. Only recently a […]
ARCH: Know What Your Machine Doesn’t Know
Speaker: Jie Yang, Delft University of Technology Title: ARCH: Know What Your Machine Doesn’t Know Abstract: Despite their impressive performance, machine learning systems remain prohibitively unreliable in safety-, trust-, and ethically sensitive […]
11/4/21 CMSA Interdisciplinary Science Seminar
Title: Exploring Invertibility in Image Processing and Restoration Abstract: Today’s smartphones have enabled numerous stunning visual effects from denoising to beautification, and we can share high-quality JPEG images easily on the internet, […]
11/11/21 Interdisciplinary Science Seminar
Title: The Kervaire conjecture and the minimal complexity of surfaces Abstract: We use topological methods to solve special cases of a fundamental problem in group theory, the Kervaire conjecture. The conjecture […]
11/18/2021 Interdisciplinary Science Seminar
Title: Amplituhedra, Scattering Amplitudes and Triangulations Abstract: In this talk I will discuss about Amplituhedra – generalizations of polytopes inside the Grassmannian – recently introduced by physicists as new geometric constructions encoding […]
12/2/2021 Interdisciplinary Science Seminar
Title: Polyhomogeneous expansions and Z/2-harmonic spinors branching along graphs Abstract: In this talk, we will first reformulate the linearization of the moduli space of Z/2-harmonic spinorsv branching along a knot. This formula […]
12/9/21 Interdisciplinary Science Seminar
Title: Numerical Higher Dimensional Geometry Abstract: In 1977, Yau proved that a Kahler manifold with zero first Chern class admits a Ricci flat metric, which is uniquely determined by certain “moduli” data. […]
12/16/2021 Interdisciplinary Science Seminar
Title: Quadratic reciprocity from a family of adelic conformal field theories Abstract: We consider a deformation of the 2d free scalar field action by raising the Laplacian to a positive real power. […]