• A scale-critical trapped surface formation criterion for the Einstein-Maxwell system

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

    https://youtu.be/1v9STFWqArQ General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Nikolaos Athanasiou Title: A scale-critical trapped surface formation criterion for the Einstein-Maxwell system Abstract: Few notions within the realm of mathematical physics succeed in capturing […]

  • CMSA/MATH Fall Gathering

    Harvard Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

    CMSA/MATH Fall Gathering Friday, Sep 23, 2022 4:30–6:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.

  • Random determinants, the elastic manifold, and landscape complexity beyond invariance

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Ben McKenna Title: Random determinants, the elastic manifold, and landscape complexity beyond invariance Abstract: The Kac-Rice formula allows one to study the complexity of high-dimensional Gaussian random functions […]

  • Candidates for Non-Supersymmetric Dualities

    Virtual

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ED61O0f0Y&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=2 Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Speaker: Avner Karasik (University of Cambridge, UK) Title: Candidates for Non-Supersymmetric Dualities Abstract: In the talk I will discuss the possibility and the […]

  • The Tree Property and uncountable cardinals

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

    Colloquium Speaker: Dima Sinapova (Rutgers University) Title: The Tree Property and uncountable cardinals Abstract: In the late 19th century Cantor discovered that there are different levels of infinity. More precisely […]

  • Statistical mechanics of neural networks: From the geometry of high dimensional error landscapes to beating power law neural scaling

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

    https://youtu.be/SQlPI07LvUc New Technologies in Mathematics Speaker: Surya Ganguli, Stanford University Title: Statistical mechanics of neural networks: From the geometry of high dimensional error landscapes to beating power law neural scaling Abstract: Statistical […]

  • General-relativistic viscous fluids

    Virtual

    https://youtu.be/nfausHrja-Y General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Marcelo Disconzi, Vanderbilt University Title: General-relativistic viscous fluids Abstract: The discovery of the quark-gluon plasma that forms in heavy-ion collision experiments provides a unique opportunity to study the properties of matter under […]

  • GLSM, Homological projective duality and nc resolutions

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

    Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker:  Mauricio Romo, Tsinghua University Title: GLSM, Homological projective duality and nc resolutions Abstract: Kuznetsov's Homological projective duality (HPD) in algebraic geometry is a powerful theorem that allows to extract information about semiorthogonal decompositions of […]

  • Kahler geometry in twisted materials

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Jie Wang Title: Kahler geometry in twisted materials Abstract: Flatbands are versatile platform for realizing exotic quantum phases due to the enhanced interactions. The canonical example is Landau […]

  • Holomorphic Twists and Confinement in N=1 SYM

    Virtual

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBHTwt_dptc&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=1 Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Justin Kulp (Perimeter Institute) Title: Holomorphic Twists and Confinement in N=1 SYM Abstract: Supersymmetric QFT's are of long-standing interest for their high degree of solvability, […]

  • Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models

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

    https://youtu.be/HUTWime3d6w New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Guy Gur-Ari, Google Research Title: Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models Abstract: Quantitative reasoning tasks which can involve mathematics, science, and programming […]