Swampland Seminar Speaker: Jake McNamara (Caltech) Title: Parity and Cobordism Abstract: The swampland cobordism conjecture provides a convenient way to discuss conserved charges associated with the topology of spacetime. However, much of […]
Speaker: Tristan Collins, MIT Title: Complete Calabi-Yau metrics: Recent progress and open problems Abstract: Complete Calabi-Yau metrics are fundamental objects in Kahler geometry arising as singularity models or "bubbles" in […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Farzan Vafa Title: Dynamics of active nematic defects on cones Abstract: In the first part of the talk, we investigate the ground-state configurations of two-dimensional liquid crystals with […]
Probability Seminar Speaker: Zhigang Yao (Harvard CMSA/National University of Singapore) Title: Manifold Fitting: An Invitation to Statistics Abstract: This manifold fitting problem can go back to H. Whitney’s work in the early […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Jörn Dunkel, MIT Title: Towards programmable living materials and quantitative models of active matter Abstract: Over the last two decades, major progress has been made in understanding the […]
https://youtu.be/taeAnXApzg4 General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Kwinten Fransen (UC Santa Barbara) Title: Quasinormal Modes from Penrose Limits Abstract: In this talk, I will explain how to describe quasinormal modes with large […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Rahul Sahay (Harvard) Title: Quantum Spin Lakes: NISQ-Era Spin Liquids from Non-Equilibrium Dynamics Abstract: While many-body quantum systems can in principle host exotic quantum spin liquid […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Dan Kapec Title: Hints of Flat Space Holography Abstract: Despite our detailed understanding of holography in Anti-de Sitter space, flat space holography remains somewhat mysterious. “Celestial CFT” is a […]
Speaker: Netta Engelhardt (MIT) Title: The Black Hole Information Paradox: A Resolution on the Horizon? Abstract: The black hole information paradox — whether information escapes an evaporating black hole or […]
Probability Seminar Speaker: Vishesh Jain (University of Illinois Chicago) Title: Thresholds for edge colorings Abstract: We show that if each edge of the complete bipartite graph K_{n,n} is given a […]
https://youtu.be/z7q0LGNVPII General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Nikolaos Athanasiou (University of Crete, Greece) Title: Formation of trapped surfaces in the Einstein-Yang-Mills system Abstract: The purpose of this talk is to give an […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Chao-Ming Lin (University of California, Irvine) Title: On the convexity of general inverse $\sigma_k$ equations and some applications Abstract: In this talk, I […]