Spacetime and quantum mechanics, total positivity and motives
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRecent developments have poised this area to make serious advances in 2019, and we feel that bringing together many of the relevant experts for an intensive semester of discussions and […]
Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China
Speaker: David Yang (Harvard) Title: Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China Abstract: Data-intensive technologies such as AI may reshape the modern world. We propose that two features of data interact to shape innovation in data-intensive economies: first, states are […]
Gentle Measurement of Quantum States and Differential Privacy
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin) Title: Gentle Measurement of Quantum States and Differential Privacy Abstract: I'll discuss a recent connection between two seemingly unrelated problems: how to measure a collection of quantum states […]
A Compact, Logical Approach to Large-Market Analysis
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard) Title: A Compact, Logical Approach to Large-Market Analysis Abstract: In game theory, we often use infinite models to represent "limit" settings, such as markets with a large number of agents or games with […]