General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Tin Yau Tsang, Courant Institute, New York University Title: Mass for the large and for the small Abstract: Seeking a meaningful geometric (physical) invariant to describe a spacetime has sparked research in both mathematics and physics. In this talk, we will first see the fundamental progress made by Schoen-Yau and Witten […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speakers: Sunghyuk Park and Vasily Krylov, Harvard CMSA Title: Factorization Homology
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Leyan Pan, Georgia Tech Title: Can Transformers Reason Logically? A Study in SAT-Solving Abstract: Transformer-based LLMs have apparently demonstrated capabilities that resembles human reasoning. In our recent work, we investigated the Boolean reasoning abilities of decoder-only Transformers equipped with Chain-of-Thought, establishing that a Transformer model can decide all 3-SAT […]
Special Seminar Speaker: Jeongwan Haah, Stanford University Title: Quantum Cellular Automata Abstract: A discrete time evolution on lattice systems that has a notion of lightcone is called a quantum cellular automaton. Lattice translation in 1D is a well-known example of QCA that is nontrivial in the sense that it is not a local Hamiltonian evolution. […]
Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Sarah Harrison (Northeastern University) Title: Comments on Non-Invertible Symmetries in K3 CFTs and the Conway Moonshine Module Abstract: There is an established connection between discrete symmetry groups of K3 non-linear sigma models and a distinguished N=1 chiral SCFT called the Conway moonshine module. More specifically, all symmetry […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Robert Moscrop Title: On the Coulomb branch scaling dimensions of 4d N=2 SCFTs Abstract: To each four dimensional N=2 superconformal field theory of rank-r, one can associate an r-tuple of numbers given by the scaling dimensions of a special set of protected operators whose VEVs parameterise the Coulomb branch. In this talk, I will demonstrate […]
Freedman CMSA Seminar Speaker: Michael Freedman Title: A simple model for universal quantum computation Abstract: I’ll present joint (unpublished) work with Charlie Marcus on a surprisingly simple – and potentially practical (?)– model for universal quantum computation whose only quantum primitive is the ability to measure a pair of adjacent electrons into either singlet (spin=0) […]
Foundation Seminar (Joint Seminar with BHI) Details TBA
General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Nikolaos Athanasiou, Affiliation: Oxford and ACT, Greece
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar