• 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, […]

  • Topological Wick Rotation and Holographic duality

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    Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Liang Kong (Sustech) Title: Topological Wick Rotation and Holographic duality Abstract: I will explain a new type of holographic dualities between n+1D topological orders with a […]

  • On the six-dimensional origin of non-invertible symmetries

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    Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Michele Del Zotto (Uppsala University) Title: On the six-dimensional origin of non-invertible symmetries Abstract: I will present a review about recent progress in charting non-invertible symmetries […]

  • The Mobility Edge of Lévy Matrices

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

    Colloquium Speaker: Patrick Lopatto (Brown) Title: The Mobility Edge of Lévy Matrices Abstract: Lévy matrices are symmetric random matrices whose entry distributions lie in the domain of attraction of an […]

  • Towards Faithful Reasoning Using Language Models

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

    New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Antonia Creswell, DeepMind Title: Towards Faithful Reasoning Using Language Models Abstract: Language models are showing impressive performance on many natural language tasks, including question-answering. […]

  • Symmetric Mass Generation

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

    https://youtu.be/EYi-eu4ADl0 Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Yizhuang You, UC San Diego Title: Symmetric Mass Generation Abstract: Symmetric mass generation (SMG) is a novel mechanism for massless fermions to acquire a […]

  • Love Symmetry of Black Holes

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

    https://youtu.be/tpmm618NjtE General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Sergei Dubovsky (New York University) Title: Love Symmetry of Black Holes Abstract: Perturbations of massless fields in the Kerr-Newman black hole background enjoy a ("Love") SL(2,ℝ) […]