During 2024–25, the CMSA will host a seminar on Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics, organized by Ahsan Khan, Robert Moscrop, and Sunghyuk Park.
This seminar will take place on Fridays at 9:00–10:30 am (Eastern Time) through October. In November, seminars will be held from 10:00–11:30 am. To learn how to attend this seminar, please fill out this form.
The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.
Videos are available at the Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Youtube Playlist
Global Anomalies on the Hilbert Space
Speaker: Jaume Gomis (Perimeter PI) Title: Global Anomalies on the Hilbert Space Abstract: We will discuss an elementary way of detecting some global anomalies from the way the symmetry algebra […]
2/18/2021 Quantum Matter Seminar
Speaker: Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT) Title: A solution to the chiral fermion problem Abstract: Motivated by the relation between anomaly and topological/SPT order in one higher dimension, we propose a solution […]
3/3/2021 Quantum Matter Seminar
Exact symmetries and threshold states in two-dimensional models for QCD
Speaker: Silviu Pufu (Princeton University) Title: Exact symmetries and threshold states in two-dimensional models for QCD Abstract: Two-dimensional QCD models form an interesting playground for studying phenomena such as confinement […]