Member Seminar Speaker: Alejandro Poveda Title: Compactness and Anticompactness Principles in Set Theory Abstract: Several fundamental properties in Topology, Algebra or Logic are expressed in terms of Compactness Principles.For instance, a […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Junkai Dong (Harvard University) Title: Exact Many-Body Ground States from Decomposition of Ideal Higher Chern Bands: Applications to Chirally Twisted Graphene Multilayers Abstract: Motivated by the […]
Swampland Seminar Location: Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Seminar room J356 Speaker: Markus Dierigl (LMU Munich) Title: IIB Explored - Dualities, Bordisms, and the Swampland Abstract: In this talk I will discuss the application […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Sungwoo Hong (U Chicago & KAIST) Title: Neutrino Masses from Generalized Symmetry Breaking Abstract: We explore generalized global symmetries in theories of physics beyond the Standard […]
https://youtu.be/Ig468DbAVGs Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Vasil Rokaj (Harvard) Title: Controlling Quantum Matter with Quantum Cavity Fields Abstract: Cavity modification of material properties and phenomena is a novel research field […]
https://youtu.be/g8zdumOAWzw New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Cyril Zhang, Microsoft Research Title: How do Transformers reason? First principles via automata, semigroups, and circuits Abstract: The current "Transformer era" of deep […]
Probability Seminar Note location change: Science Center Room 300H Speaker: Lior Alon (MIT) Title: Fourier quasicrystals and stable polynomials Abstract: The Poisson summation formula says that the countable sum of exp(int), over […]
https://youtu.be/jwvkS2A2dL8 General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Allen Fang (Princeton) Title: A new proof for the nonlinear stability of slowly-rotating Kerr-de Sitter Abstract: The nonlinear stability of the slowly-rotating Kerr-de Sitter family […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Julien Tailleur (MIT) Title: Self-organization of motile cells by quorum-sensing or chemotactic interactions Abstract: Equilibrium statistical mechanics tells us how to control the self-assembly of passive materials […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Federico Bonetti (Oxford) Title: Non-Invertible Symmetries from Holography and Branes Abstract: The notion of global symmetry in quantum field theory (QFT) has witnessed dramatic generalizations in […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Yang Qi (Fudan) Title: Phase Fluctuations in Two-Dimensional Superconductors and Pseudogap Phenomenon Abstract: We study the phase fluctuations in the normal state of a general two-dimensional […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speakers: Jacob McNamara (Caltech) and Matthew Reece (Harvard) Title: Reflections on Parity Breaking Abstract: One approach to the Strong CP Problem (known as Nelson-Barr models) is to […]