• Big Data Conference 2022

    Virtual

    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 […]

  • State Diagram of Cancer Cell Unjamming Predicts Metastatic Risk

    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 […]

  • Gifts from anomalies: new results on quantum critical transport in non- Fermi liquids

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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 […]

  • The second law of black hole mechanics in effective field theory

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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 […]

  • Duality in Einstein’s Gravity

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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 […]

  • Non-invertible Symmetries in Nature

    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 […]

  • Strategyproof-Exposing Mechanisms Descriptions

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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 […]

  • Breaking the one-mind-barrier in mathematics using formal verification

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/D7dqadF5k9Q New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Johan Commelin, Mathematisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Title: Breaking the one-mind-barrier in mathematics using formal verification Abstract: In this talk I will argue that […]

  • The Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings revisited

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    General Relativity Seminar Title: The Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings revisited   Abstract: In this talk I will discuss our recent work that reproduces and extends the famous work of Lehner and Pretorius on the […]

  • Derivation of AdS/CFT for Vector Models

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar Speaker: Shai Chester Title: Derivation of AdS/CFT for Vector Models Abstract: We derive an explicit map at finite N between the singlet sector of the free and critical O(N) and U(N) […]

  • The story of the information paradox

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Swampland Seminar Speaker: Samir Mathur (Ohio State) Title: The story of the information paradox Abstract:  In 1975 Hawking argued that black hole evaporation would lead to a loss of unitarity in quantum […]

  • Geometric test for topological states of matter

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/MxXD2yA2pxQ Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Semyon Klevtsov, University of Strasbourg Title: Geometric test for topological states of matter Abstract: We generalize the flux insertion argument due to Laughlin, Niu-Thouless-Tao-Wu, and […]