CMSA Q&A Seminar: Dan Freed
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed, Harvard University Topic: What are spectra (in homotopy theory)?
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Discovery in Mathematics with Automated Conjecturing
Hybrid - G10New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Randy Davila, RelationalAI and Rice University Title: Discovery in Mathematics with Automated Conjecturing Abstract: Automated conjecturing is a form of artificial intelligence that applies heuristic-driven methods to mathematical discovery. Since the late 1980s, systems such as Fajtlowicz’s Graffiti, DeLaViña’s Graffiti.pc, and TxGraffiti have collectively contributed to over 130 publications in mathematical […]
Freedman CMSA Seminar: Michael Freedman (CMSA) & Elia Portnoy (MIT)
Hybrid - G10Freedman CMSA Seminar Speaker: Michael Freedman, Harvard CMSA (3:00–4:00 pm ET) Title: How many links can you fit in a box? Abstract: I’ll discuss a “made up” problem on the interface of topology and packing, which may well be classified as “recreational math”. Here is the first question suppose you have a unit box, how many unlinked […]
Verlinde’s formula in logarithmic conformal field theory
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Thomas Creutzig (University of Alberta) Title: Verlinde's formula in logarithmic conformal field theory Abstract: Two-dimensional conformal field theories lead to rich mathematical structure. For example its chiral algebra is a vertex algebra and the axioms of rational conformal field theory define modular tensor categories. A highlight of this development […]
People at CMSA – March 24-28, 2025
CMSA 20 Garden Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 United StatesFull Name Role Office # Affiliation Dates Email Address Amol Aggarwal Classical, Quantum, and Probabilistic Integrable Systems Program Organizer 203 Columbia University & Clay Mathematics Institute amolagga@gmail.com Guillaume Barraquand Classical, Quantum, and Probabilistic Integrable Systems Program Organizer 207 École normale supérieure, Paris guillaume.barraquand@ens.fr Denis Bernard Classical, Quantum, and Probabilistic Integrable Systems Program Organizer 207 École […]
The Andersen-Kashaev volume conjecture for FAMED geometric triangulations
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesQuantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Ka Ho Wong (Yale) Title: The Andersen-Kashaev volume conjecture for FAMED geometric triangulations Abstract: In the early 2010s, Andersen and Kashaev defined a TQFT based on quantum Teichmuller theory. In particular, they define a partition function for every ordered ideal triangulation of hyperbolic knot complement in $\mathbb{S}^3$ […]
The Toda Lattice as a Soliton Gas
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesColloquium Speaker: Amol Aggarwal, Columbia University Title: The Toda Lattice as a Soliton Gas Abstract: A basic tenet of integrable systems is that, under sufficiently irregular initial data, they can be thought of as dense collections of many solitons, or “soliton gases.” In this talk we focus on the Toda lattice, which is an archetypal example of […]
Unstable Fluids in Expanding Cosmologies
VirtualGeneral Relativity Seminar Speaker: Elliot Marshal, School of Mathematics at Monash University Title: Unstable Fluids in Expanding Cosmologies Abstract: The FLRW solution is the simplest cosmological model in general relativity, describing a fluid-filled, spatially homogeneous universe. While there is extensive literature in the physics community on cosmological models with a linear equation of state , rigorous […]
AlphaProof: when reinforcement learning meets formal mathematics
VirtualNew Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Thomas Hubert (Google DeepMind) Title: AlphaProof: when reinforcement learning meets formal mathematics Abstract: Galileo, the renowned Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician, famously described mathematics as the language of the universe. Progress since only confirmed his intuition as the world we live in can be described with extreme precision with […]
From quantum difference equations to Maulik-Okounkov quantum affine algebra
VirtualMathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar *via Zoom only* Speaker: Tianqing Zhu (Tsinghua University) Title: From quantum difference equations to Maulik-Okounkov quantum affine algebra Abstract: Capping operator is one the core subject in the K-theoretic quasimap counting to quiver varieties. It has been shown by Okounkov and Smirnov that it satisfies a system of q-difference […]
The Competition Complexity of Dynamic Pricing
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMember Seminar Speaker: Tomer Ezra Title: The Competition Complexity of Dynamic Pricing Abstract: One of the most fundamental questions in mechanism design is the tradeoff between simplicity and optimality. A canonical example of this tradeoff is competition complexity in auctions, which quantifies how many additional bidders are needed for a simple mechanism to (approximately) match the revenue of the optimal mechanism. In […]
Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesQuantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Cameron Krulewski, MIT