Defects, link invariants and exact WKB
Speaker: Fei Yan (Rutgers) Title: Defects, link invariants and exact WKB Abstract: I will describe some of my recent work on defects in supersymmetric field theories. The first part of my talk […]
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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.
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The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.
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Gravitational anomaly of 3 + 1 dimensional Z2 toric code with fermionic charges and ferionic loop self-statistics
Speaker: Lukasz Fidkowski (U Washington) Title: Gravitational anomaly of 3 + 1 dimensional Z2 toric code with fermionic charges and ferionic loop self-statistics Abstract: Quasiparticle excitations in 3 + 1 dimensions can […]
Metals with strongly correlated electrons: quantum criticality, disordered interactions, Planckian dissipation, and scale invariance
Speaker: Aavishkar Patel (UC Berkeley) Title: Metals with strongly correlated electrons: quantum criticality, disordered interactions, Planckian dissipation, and scale invariance Abstract: Metals that do not fit Landau’s famous Fermi liquid […]
Maximal quantum chaos of the critical Fermi surface
Speaker: Maria Tikhanovskaya (Harvard) Title: Maximal quantum chaos of the critical Fermi surface Abstract: In this talk, I will describe many-body quantum chaos in a recently proposed large-N theory for critical Fermi […]
Kramers-Wannier-like duality defects in higher dimensions
Title: Kramers-Wannier-like duality defects in higher dimensions Abstract: I will introduce a class of non-invertible topological defects in (3 + 1)d gauge theories whose fusion rules are the higher-dimensional analogs of those […]
Quantum Oscillations of Electrical Resistivity in an Insulator
Speaker: Lu Li (U Michigan) Title: Quantum Oscillations of Electrical Resistivity in an Insulator Abstract: In metals, orbital motions of conduction electrons are quantized in magnetic fields, which is manifested by quantum […]
On the absence of global anomalies of heterotic string theories
Speaker: Yuji Tachikawa (Kavli IPMU, U Tokyo) Title: On the absence of global anomalies of heterotic string theories Abstract: Superstring theory as we know it started from the discovery by Green […]
The global structure of the Standard Model and new nonperturbative processes
Speaker: Mohamed Anber (Durham University) Title: The global structure of the Standard Model and new nonperturbative processes Abstract: It is well-established that the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is based on […]
Topological Quantum Gravity and the Ricci Flow – Part I
Speaker: Petr Hořava (UC Berkeley) Title: Topological Quantum Gravity and the Ricci Flow – Part I Abstract: In this sequence of talks, I will describe our work with Alexander Frenkel and […]
Fall 2020 – Spring 2022 Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Archive
This is the Fall 2020 - Spring 2022 Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Archive page. To view current seminars, please visit the Fall 2022-Spring 2023 Quantum Matter Seminar Page […]
Spin-cobordisms, surgeries and fermionic modular bootstrap
Speaker: Andrea Grigoletto (SISSA & INFN) Title: Spin-cobordisms, surgeries and fermionic modular bootstrap Abstract: ‘tHooft anomalies of anomalous systems can be described via anomaly inflow by invertible theories living in one dimension […]
Topological Quantum Gravity and the Ricci Flow – Part II
Abstract: In this sequence of talks, I will describe our work with Alexander Frenkel and Stephen Randall, in which we presented a novel topological quantum gravity, relating three previously unrelated […]