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
Title: More Exact Results in Gauge Theories: Confinement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking Abstract: In this follow-up to Hitoshi Murayama’s talk “Some Exact Results in QCD-like and Chiral Gauge Theories”, I […]
Title: Three-particle mechanism for pairing and superconductivity Abstract: I will present a new mechanism and an exact theory of electron pairing due to repulsive interaction in doped insulators. When the […]
Title: The Hilbert Space of large N Chern-Simons matter theories Abstract: We demonstrate that all known formulae for the thermal partition function for large N Chern Simons matter theory admit […]
Title: Strong Coupling Theory of Magic-Angle Graphene: A Pedagogical Introduction Abstract: In this talk, I will review a recently developed strong coupling theory of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. An advantage […]
Title: Symmetry types in QFT and the CRT theorem Abstract: I will discuss ideas around symmetry and Wick rotation contained in joint work with Mike Hopkins (https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06527). This includes general […]
Title: Applications of instantons, sphalerons and instanton-dyons in QCD Abstract: I start with a general map of gauge topology, including monopoles, instantons and instanton-dyons. Then comes reminder of the “topological […]
Title: Oscillations in the thermal conductivity of a spin liquid* Abstract: The layered honeycomb magnet alpha-RuCl3 orders below 7 K in a zigzag phase in zero field. An in-plane magnetic […]
Title: Line defects in CFTs: Renormalization group flows and semiclassical limits Abstract: I will discuss line defects in d-dimensional Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). In the first part of the talk, […]
Title: A tour of categorical symmetry Abstract: I will discuss some perspectives on symmetry coming from the study of topological defects in quantum field theory. I will argue that we […]
Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS Princeton) Title: UV/IR and Effective Field Theory
Title: Electric-magnetic duality and the Geometric Langlands duality Abstract: I will give a pedagogical review of the connection between electric-magnetic duality and the Geometric Langlands duality.
Speaker: Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech) Title: Anomaly resolution via decomposition Abstract: In this talk we will discuss a method of anomaly resolution due to Wang-Wen-Witten in the special case of […]