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 […]
Interdisciplinary Science Seminar Speaker: Yue M. Lu, Harvard University Title: Exploring and Exploiting the Universality Phenomena in High-Dimensional Estimation and Learning Abstract: Universality is a fascinating high-dimensional phenomenon. It points to the existence […]
Speaker: Haoyu Guo (Harvard) Title: Transport in large-N critical Fermi surface Abstract: A Fermi surface coupled to a scalar field can be described in a 1/N expansion by choosing the fermion-scalar […]
CMSA Interdisciplinary Science Seminar Speaker: Quanquan Liu, Northwestern University Title: Scalable Dynamic Graph Algorithms Abstract: The field of dynamic graph algorithms seeks to understand and compute statistics on real-world networks […]
https://youtu.be/lmgwSxwDAHg On August 26, 2022 the CMSA hosted our eighth annual Conference on Big Data. The Big Data Conference features speakers from the Harvard community as well as scholars from […]
https://youtu.be/KmWQPMivxXw Speaker: Josef Käs, Leipzig University Title: State Diagram of Cancer Cell Unjamming Predicts Metastatic Risk Abstract: Distant metastasis is probably the most lethal hallmark of cancer. Due to a lack […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCSeu7ykzLs&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=5 Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar Speaker: Zhengyan Darius Shi (MIT) Title: Gifts from anomalies: new results on quantum critical transport in non-Fermi liquids Abstract: Non-Fermi liquid phenomena arise […]
General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Professor Harvey Reall (University of Cambridge) Title: The second law of black hole mechanics in effective field theory Abstract: I shall discuss the second law of black hole […]
Title: Duality in Einstein’s Gravity Abstract: Electric-Magnetic duality has been a key feature behind our understanding of Quantum Field Theory for over a century. In this talk I will describe […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq_XXzbFr18&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=3 Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Speaker: Yichul Cho (SUNY Stony Brook) Title: Non-invertible Symmetries in Nature Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss non-invertible symmetries in familiar 3+1d […]
Colloquium Speaker: Yannai Gonczarowski (Harvard) Title: Strategyproof-Exposing Mechanisms Descriptions Abstract: One of the crowning achievements of the field of Mechanism Design has been the design and usage of the so-called […]