• 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) […]

  • Attempts at understanding human axial elongation and patterning

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

    Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard Title: Attempts at understanding human axial elongation and patterning Abstract: Some of the most dramatic events during human development is the axial elongation of the […]

  • The index of M-theory

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

    Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Nicolo Piazzalunga, Rutgers Title: The index of M-theory Abstract: I’ll introduce the higher-rank Donaldson-Thomas theory for toric Calabi-Yau threefolds, within the setting of equivariant K-theory. I’ll […]

  • Explicit Ramsey Graphs and Two Source Extractors

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

    Speaker: David Zuckerman, Harvard CMSA/University of Texas at Austin Title: Explicit Ramsey Graphs and Two Source Extractors Abstract: Ramsey showed that any graph on N nodes contains a clique or independent […]

  • Insulating BECs and other surprises in dipole-conserving systems

    Virtual

    Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Ethan Lake (MIT) Title: Insulating BECs and other surprises in dipole-conserving systems Abstract: I will discuss recent work on bosonic models whose dynamics conserves both total charge and total […]

  • Anomalies of Discrete Gauge Symmetries and their Cancellation in 6D F-theory

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

    Swampland Seminar Speaker: Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann(Northeastern) Title: Anomalies of Discrete Gauge Symmetries and their Cancellation in 6D F-theory Abstract: We consider 6D SUGRAs with a discrete gauge group G, engineered via F-theory […]

  • Unorientable Quantum Field Theories: From crosscaps to holography

    Virtual

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2colQwY34 Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: João Caetano (CERN) Title: Unorientable Quantum Field Theories: From crosscaps to holography Abstract: In two dimensions, one can study quantum field theories on unorientable manifolds […]

  • Kähler bands—Chern insulators, holomorphicity and induced quantum geometry

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

    https://youtu.be/2BF5q6d_Zo4 Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Bruno Mera, Tohoku University Title: Kähler bands—Chern insulators, holomorphicity and induced quantum geometry Abstract: The notion of topological phases has dramatically changed our understanding of […]

  • Clique listing algorithms

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

    Speaker: Virginia Vassilevska Williams (MIT) Title: Clique listing algorithms Abstract: A k-clique in a graph G is a subgraph of G on k vertices in which every pair of vertices […]