On June 21–24, 2022, the Harvard Black Hole Initiative and the CMSA hosted the Joint BHI/CMSA Conference on Flat Holography (and related topics). The recent discovery of infinitely-many soft symmetries […]
Abstract: The statistical analysis of genomic data has incubated many innovations for computational method development. This talk will discuss some simple algorithms that may be useful in analyzing such data. Examples […]
Abstract: Entanglement is a type of correlation found in composite quantum systems, connected with various non-classical phenomena. Currently, entanglement plays a key role in quantum information applications such as quantum computing, […]
Interdisciplinary Science Seminar Speaker: Fouad El Baidouri, Broad Institute Title: The phenotype of the last universal common ancestor and the evolution of complexity Abstract: A fundamental concept in evolutionary theory […]
Speaker: Kenichi Konishi (UNIPI.IT) Title: Anomalies, dynamics and phases in strongly-coupled chiral gauge theories: Recent developments Abstract: After many years of efforts, still very little is known today about the […]
Abstract: Introducing internal degrees of freedom in the description of crystalline insulators has led to a myriad of theoretical and experimental advances. Of particular interest are the effects of periodic […]
Abstract: The establishment of neural circuitry during early infancy is critical for developing visual, auditory, and motor functions. However, how cortical tissue develops postnatally is largely unknown. By combining T1 relaxation time from […]
CMSA Interdisciplinary Science Seminar Speaker: Sumit Sinha, Harvard University Title: Statistical Mechanical theory for spatio-temporal evolution of Intra-tumor heterogeneity in cancers: Analysis of Multiregion sequencing data (https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10595) Abstract: Variations in characteristics from one […]
A Conference in Honor of Elliott H. Lieb on his 90th Birthday On July 30 - Aug 1, 2022 the Harvard Mathematics Department and the CMSA co-hosted a birthday conference […]
On August 2–5, the CMSA hosted a workshop on Phase Transitions and Topological Defects in the Early Universe. The workshop was held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at […]
Interdisciplinary Science Seminar Speaker: Yang P. Liu Title: Recent Advances on Maximum Flows and Minimum-Cost Flows Abstract: We survey recent advances on computing flows in graphs, culminating in an almost linear […]