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  • AI in math and theoretical physics: Status and prospects

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    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Colloquium Speaker: Michael Douglas, Harvard CMSA Title: AI in math and theoretical physics: status and prospects Abstract: AI is making great progress and has the potential to change how we work in unprecedented ways. In this talk I will survey a few recent works which illustrate the state of the art, some from my own research, […]

  • On the past maximal development of near-FLRW data for the Einstein scalar-field Vlasov system

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Liam Urban (University of Vienna) Title: On the past maximal development of near-FLRW data for the Einstein scalar-field Vlasov system Abstract: In recent years, the formation of Big Bang singularities has been increasingly well understood in presence of scalar-field matter, which suppresses the geometric oscillations that one generically expects otherwise. From a cosmological perspective, […]

  • Discussion of Integrating quantum groups over surfaces

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Ben Gammage, Harvard University Title: Discussion of Integrating quantum groups over surfaces https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04652

  • CMSA Q&A Seminar: Javier Gomez-Serrano

    CMSA Q&A Seminar
    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Javier Gomez-Serrano, Brown University Topic: Please tell us about the Millennium prize problem for Navier-Stokes and segue from that into ML?

  • Discovering Data Structures: Nearest Neighbor Search and Beyond

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    https://youtu.be/_BgheUBw_Lw New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Omar Salemohamed, Mila Title: Discovering Data Structures: Nearest Neighbor Search and Beyond Abstract: As neural networks learn increasingly sophisticated tasks—from image recognition to mastering the game of Go—we ask: can deep learning discover data structures entirely from scratch? We introduce a general framework for data structure discovery, which adapts to […]

  • The Structure of the Flux Landscape

    Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Damian Van de Heisteeg, Harvard CMSA Title: The Structure of the Flux Landscape Abstract: Identifying flux vacua in string theory with stabilized complex structure moduli presents a significant challenge, necessitating the minimization of a scalar potential complicated by infinitely many exponential corrections. In order to obtain exact results we […]

  • 2025 Ding Shum Lecture: Irit Dinur, IAS: Expanders from local to global

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    Harvard Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

      https://youtu.be/jEDFrIvRowc On February 13, 2025 the CMSA hosted the sixth annual Ding Shum Lecture, given by Irit Dinur, Institute for Advanced Study. Location: Harvard Science Center  Hall A & via Zoom Webinar Speaker: Irit Dinur, Institute for Advanced Study Title: Expanders from local to global Abstract: Imagine a network—like a social network, a transportation […]

  • Jack polynomials and enumeration of non-orientable maps

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar Speaker: Houcine Ben Dali, Harvard CMSA Title: Jack polynomials and enumeration of non-orientable maps Abstract: A map is a graph embedded on a surface, which may be orientable or not. The representation theory of the symmetric group can be used to write the generating series of maps on orientable surfaces using Schur symmetric functions. Several […]

  • General Relativity Seminar

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    https://youtu.be/T9D4heG-OSU General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Maximilian Ofner, University of Vienna Title: Stability and Instability of Relativistic Fluids in Slowly Expanding Spacetimes Abstract: Homogeneous and isotropic solutions to the relativistic Euler equations are known to be unstable on a Minkowski background. However, for FLRW models with a fast expansion rate, relativistic fluids stabilize. This scenario suggests […]

  • CMSA Q&A Seminar: Phillip Matchett Wood

    CMSA Q&A Seminar
    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Phillip Matchett Wood, Harvard University Topic: Info session on the CMSA/Mathematics Summer REU Program (Research Experience for Undergraduates)  

  • The geometry of pure spinor superfield formalism 

    Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
    Virtual

    Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Simone Noja (Heidelberg University) Title: The geometry of pure spinor superfield formalism Abstract: In this talk I will present a mathematical perspective on the pure spinor superfield formalism. In particular, I will discuss how field multiplets in supersymmetric theories can be constructed mathematically from geometric data associated with certain […]