• The Emergence Proposal in Quantum Gravity and the Species Scale

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

    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 […]

  • Noether’s Learning Dynamics: Role of Symmetry Breaking in Neural Networks

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

    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

    Hybrid

    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

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

    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. […]

  • Light states in the interior of CY moduli spaces

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Damian van de Heisteeg Title: Light states in the interior of CY moduli spaces Abstract: In string theory one finds that states become massless as one approaches boundaries in […]

  • 3D gravity and gravitational entanglement entropy

    Virtual

    Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Gabriel Wong (Harvard CMSA) Title: 3D gravity and gravitational entanglement entropy Abstract: Recent progress in AdS/CFT has provided a good understanding of how the bulk spacetime […]

  • Continuum field theory of graphene bilayer system

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

    https://youtu.be/BIABg2zFVGE Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Jian Kang, School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China Title: Continuum field theory of graphene bilayer system Abstract: The Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) […]

  • Representation Theory, Calabi–Yau Manifolds, and Mirror Symmetry

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

    Videos are available on the CMSA Youtube Playlist. On November 28 - Dec 1, 2022, the CMSA hosted a Workshop on Representation Theory, Calabi-Yau Manifolds, and Mirror Symmetry. Organizers: An Huang […]