Topological symmetry in field theory
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Daniel S. Freed (U Texas) Title: Topological symmetry in field theory Abstract: Recently there has been lots of activity surrounding generalized notions of symmetry in quantum […]
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CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Large cardinals and small sets: The AD+ Duality Program
https://youtu.be/eqCez92m9XE CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Prof. Hugh Woodin will present a lecture in the CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Series. Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 Time: 9:30 - 11:00 am ET […]
Liouville quantum gravity from random matrix dynamics
Probability Seminar Speaker: Hugo Falconet (Courant Institute, NYU) Title: Liouville quantum gravity from random matrix dynamics Abstract: The Liouville quantum gravity measure is a properly renormalized exponential of the 2d GFF. In […]
Schwarzschild-like Topological Solitons in Gravity
https://youtu.be/hhjIPdyIM3U General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Pierre Heidmann (Johns Hopkins) Title: Schwarzschild-like Topological Solitons in Gravity Abstract: We present large classes of non-extremal solitons in gravity that are asymptotic to four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime plus […]
Quantum trace and length conjecture for hyperbolic knot
Member Seminar Speaker: Mauricio Romo Title: Quantum trace and length conjecture for hyperbolic knot Abstract: I will define the quantum trace map for an ideally triangulated hyperbolic knot complement on S^3. This map assigns […]
Topology of the Fermi sea: Ordinary metals as topological materials
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Pok Man Tam (University of Pennsylvania) Title: Topology of the Fermi sea: Ordinary metals as topological materials Abstract: It has long been known that the quantum […]
The Emergence Proposal in Quantum Gravity and the Species Scale
Swampland Seminar Speaker: Alvaro Herraez (Saclay) Title: The Emergence Proposal in Quantum Gravity and the Species Scale Abstract: The Emergence Proposal claims that in Quantum Gravity the kinetic terms of the fields in […]
Vacuum fluctuations in cavities: breakdown of the topological protection in the integer Quantum Hall effect
https://youtu.be/mtheRASO2e0 Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Jérôme Faist (ETH Zurich) Title: Vacuum fluctuations in cavities: breakdown of the topological protection in the integer Quantum Hall effect Abstract: When a collection […]
Noether’s Learning Dynamics: Role of Symmetry Breaking in Neural Networks
Colloquium Speaker: Hidenori Tanaka (NTT Research at Harvard) Title: Noether’s Learning Dynamics: Role of Symmetry Breaking in Neural Networks Abstract: In nature, symmetry governs regularities, while symmetry breaking brings texture. […]
Outlier-Robust Algorithms for Clustering Non-Spherical Mixtures
Probability Seminar Speaker: Ainesh Bakshi (MIT) Title: Outlier-Robust Algorithms for Clustering Non-Spherical Mixtures Abstract: In this talk, we describe the first polynomial time algorithm for robustly clustering a mixture of statistically-separated, […]
Ringdown and geometry of trapping for black holes
General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Semyon Dyatlov (MIT) Title: Ringdown and geometry of trapping for black holes Abstract: Quasi-normal modes are complex exponential frequencies appearing in long time expansions of solutions to linear […]
Dynamic and multicolor electron microscopy
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Max Prigozhin (Harvard) Title: Dynamic and multicolor electron microscopy Abstract: My lab is developing biophysical methods to achieve multicolor and dynamic biological imaging at the molecular scale. […]