• 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 […]

  • Quantum statistical mechanics of charged black holes and strange metals

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

    https://youtu.be/-Kjl8WehIPw Colloquium Please note this colloquium will be held at a special time:  4:00-5:00 pm. Speaker: Subir Sachdev (Harvard) Title: Quantum statistical mechanics of charged black holes and strange metals […]

  • Duality in Einstein’s Gravity

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

    General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Uri Kol, CMSA 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 […]

  • Scattering Diagrams from Holomorphic Discs in Log Calabi-Yau Surfaces

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

    Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Sam Bardwell-Evans, Boston University Title: Scattering Diagrams from Holomorphic Discs in Log Calabi-Yau Surfaces Abstract: In this talk, we construct special Lagrangian fibrations […]

  • Principal flow, sub-manifold and boundary

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

    Member Seminar  Speaker: Zhigang Yao Title: Principal flow, sub-manifold and boundary Abstract: While classical statistics has dealt with observations which are real numbers or elements of a real vector space, nowadays many […]

  • The Penrose Inequality as a Constraint on Low Energy Quantum Gravity

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

    Swampland Seminar Speaker: Aasmund Folkestad (MIT) Title: The Penrose Inequality as a Constraint on Low Energy Quantum Gravity Abstract: In this talk, I argue that the Penrose inequality (PI) can be used […]

  • Engineering topological phases with a superlattice potential

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

    https://youtu.be/NbjuY80nWgM Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Jennifer Cano (Stony Brook and Flatiron Institute) Title: Engineering topological phases with a superlattice potential Abstract: We propose an externally imposed superlattice potential as […]

  • Complete disorder is impossible: Some topics in Ramsey theory

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

    Colloquium Speaker: James Cummings,Carnegie Mellon University Title: Complete disorder is impossible: Some topics in Ramsey theory Abstract: The classical infinite Ramsey theorem states that if we colour pairs of natural […]

  • Strong Cosmic Censorship

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    https://youtu.be/6tjqDpT9f-k General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Professor Oscar Dias (University of Southampton) Title: Strong Cosmic Censorship Abstract: Generically, strong cosmic censorship (SCC) is the statement that physics within general relativity should be predicted from […]

  • Singularities of the quantum connection on a Fano variety

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

    Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Daniel Pomerleano, UMass Boston Title: Singularities of the quantum connection on a Fano variety Abstract: The small quantum connection on a Fano variety is […]

  • Quantum magnet chains and Kashiwara crystals

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

    Speaker: Leonid Rybnikov, Harvard CMSA/National Research University Higher School of Economics Title: Quantum magnet chains and Kashiwara crystals Abstract: Solutions of the algebraic Bethe ansatz for quantum magnet chains are, generally, […]