Speaker: Ning Su, University of Pisa Title: Conformal symmetry, Optimization algorithms and the Critical Phenomena Abstract: In the phase diagram of many substances, the critical points have emergent conformal symmetry […]
https://youtu.be/ztk5TPYTKZA New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Jimmy Ba, University of Toronto Title: How to steer foundation models? Abstract: By conditioning on natural language instructions, foundation models and large language […]
https://youtu.be/teqIIXRJXd4 General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Jose Luis Jaramillo (Bourgogne U.) Title: Pseudospectrum and black hole quasinormal mode instability: an ultraviolet universality conjecture Abstract: Can we measure the ‘effective regularity’ of […]
Probability Seminar Speaker: Jean-Christophe Mourrat (ENS Lyon) Title: On the free energy of spin glasses with multiple types Abstract: In the simplest spin-glass model, due to Sherrington and Kirkpatrick, the […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Yichen Huang (Harvard) Title: Quantum entropy thermalization Abstract: In an isolated quantum many-body system undergoing unitary evolution, the entropy of a subsystem (smaller than half the […]
Swampland Seminar Speaker: David Andriot (Annecy, LAPTH) Title: String theory scalar potentials and their critical points Abstract: Positive scalar potentials in string effective theories could provide an origin to Dark […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Michael Simkin Title: Randomized algorithms in combinatorics Abstract: Randomized algorithms have been a computational workhorse for almost as long as there have been computers. Surprisingly, such algorithms can […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Jonathan Bauermann, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Title: Active chemical reactions in phase-separating systems Abstract: Motivated by the existence of membrane-less […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Andreas Bauer (Freie Universität Berlin) Title: Tensorial TQFT and disentangling modular Walker-Wang models Abstract: I will introduce simple "tensorial" definitions for many algebraic and categorical structures […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Max Wiesner Title: Quantum Gravity constraints beyond asymptotic regimes Abstract: Not every effective field theory that is consistent in the absence of gravity can be completed to a […]
On March 21, 2023, the CMSA hosted the fourth annual Ding Shum Lecture, given by Cynthia Dwork (Harvard SEAS and Microsoft Research). Time: 5:00-6:00 pm ET Location: Harvard University Science Center […]
Speaker: Mete Soner (Princeton University) Title: Synchronization in a Kuramoto Mean Field Game Abstract: Originally motivated by systems of chemical and biological oscillators, the classical Kuramoto model has found an amazing range of applications […]