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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
https://youtu.be/h3jcSg359E8 New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speakers: João Araújo, Mathematics Department, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Michael Kinyon, Department of Mathematics, University of Denver Title: From Engine to Auto Abstract: Bill […]
General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Naqing Xie (Fudan University) Title: Gravitational Wave, Angular Momentum, and Supertranslation Ambiguity Abstract: The supertranslation ambiguity of angular momentum is a long-standing and conceptually important issue in general […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Ahsan Khan, IAS Title: 2-Categories and the Massive 3d A-Model Abstract: I will outline the construction of a 2-category associated to a hyperKahler moment […]