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 […]
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 […]
During the Spring 2022 semester, the CMSA hosted a program on General Relativity. This semester-long program included four minicourses, a conference, and a workshop. General Relativity Mincourses: March–May, 2022 General […]
Minicourses General Relativity Program Minicourses During the Spring 2022 semester, the CMSA hosted a program on General Relativity. This semester-long program included four minicourses running in March, April, and May; […]
General Relativity Workshop on scalar curvature, minimal surfaces, and initial data sets Dates: May 2–5, 2022 Location: Room G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 and via Zoom webinar. […]
Abstract: Consider a bootstrap percolation process that starts with a set of `infected’ triangles $Y \subseteq \binom{}3$, and a new triangle f gets infected if there is a copy of […]
Abstract: Although everyone talks about AI + healthcare, many people were unaware of the fact that there are two possible outcomes of the collaboration, due to the inherent dissimilarity between the […]
On May 6–8, 2022, the CMSA hosted a second NSF FRG Workshop. This project brings together a community of researchers who develop theoretical and computational models to characterize shapes. Their […]
On May 9–12, 2022, the CMSA hosted the conference Deformations of structures and moduli in geometry and analysis: A Memorial in honor of Professor Masatake Kuranishi. Organizers: Tristan Collins (MIT) and […]
Abstract: I will explore the interplay between Swampland conjectures and models of inflation and light Dark Matter. To that end, I will briefly review the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) and the related […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMbWPWeuJOQ&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=12 Abstract: We are familiar with the idea that quantum gravity in AdS can holographically emerge from complex patterns of entanglement, but can the physics of big bang cosmology emerge from a quantum […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnWI9sCfAi0&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=11&t=2s Abstract: The CDF collaboration recently reported a new precise measurement of the W boson mass MW with a central value significantly larger than the SM prediction. We explore the effects […]