• Swampland Program

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    During the 2021–2022 academic year, the CMSA will host a program on the so-called “Swampland.” The Swampland program aims to determine which low-energy effective field theories are consistent with nonperturbative quantum gravity considerations. Not […]

  • CMSA Colloquium 9/15/2021 – 5/25/2022

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    During the 2021–22 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Colloquium, organized by Du Pei, Changji Xu, and Michael Simkin. It will take place on Wednesdays at 9:30am – 10:30am (Boston time). The […]

  • The complex Monge-Ampere equation in K\”ahler geometry

    Speaker: Freid Tong Title: The complex Monge-Ampere equation in Kahler geometry Abstract: The complex Monge-Ampere equations occupies an central role in K\”ahler geometry, beginning with Yau’s famous solutions of the Calabi […]

  • Anomaly resolution via decomposition

    Virtual

    Speaker: Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech) Title: Anomaly resolution via decomposition Abstract: In this talk we will discuss a method of anomaly resolution due to Wang-Wen-Witten in the special case of […]

  • Integrability and chaos of 1+1d chiral edge states

    Speaker: Biao Lian (Princeton) Title: Integrability and chaos of 1+1d chiral edge states Abstract: I will talk about the integrability and chaos of 1+1d interacting chiral edge states, which may […]

  • Bubble instability of mIIA on AdS_4 x S^6

    Speaker: Pieter Bomans, Princeton Title: Bubble instability of mIIA on AdS_4 x S^6 Abstract: Recently, a set of non-supersymmetric AdS_4 vacua of massive type IIA string theory has been constructed. […]

  • Hitchin map as spectrum of equivariant cohomology

    Speaker: Tamás Hausel (IST Austria) Title: Hitchin map as spectrum of equivariant cohomology Abstract: We will explain how to model the Hitchin integrable system on a certain Lagrangian upward flow as the spectrum of equivariant cohomology of a Grassmannian.

  • Non-Invertible Duality Defects in 3+1 Dimensions

    Virtual

    Speaker: Clay Cordova (U Chicago) Title: Non-Invertible Duality Defects in 3+1 Dimensions Abstract:  For any quantum system invariant under gauging a higher-form global symmetry, we construct a non-invertible topological defect by gauging […]