• Current Developments in Mathematics Conference 2023

    Harvard Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

    Current Developments in Mathematics 2023 Harvard University Science Center, Lecture Hall C April 7-8, 2023 Speakers: Amol Aggarwal - Columbia University Bhargav Bhatt - Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, […]

  • Swampland bounds on the abelian gauge sectors

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

    Swampland Seminar Speaker: Seung-Joo Lee (IBS Daejeon) Title: Swampland bounds on the abelian gauge sectors Abstract: In this talk we will derive various bounds on the 0-form and the 1-form abelian […]

  • Localization for random band matrices

    Harvard Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

    Probability Seminar *Please note room change: Science Center 232* Speaker: Ron Peled (Tel Aviv University) Title: Localization for random band matrices Abstract: I will explain an approach via "an adaptive Mermin-Wagner style shift" […]

  • Spectral gap and two-point functions in spin glasses

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Changji Xu Title: Spectral gap and two-point functions in spin glasses Abstract: Many have worked on spin glass models over the past 50 years, including physicists, mathematicians, […]

  • Unexpected Uses of Neural Networks: Field Theory and Metric Flows  

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

    Speaker: James Halverson (Northeastern University)   Title: Unexpected Uses of Neural Networks: Field Theory and Metric Flows Abstract:  We are now quite used to the idea that deep neural networks may be trained […]

  • Large deviations of Selberg’s central limit theorem

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

    Probability Seminar Speaker: Emma Bailey (CUNY) Title: Large deviations of Selberg’s central limit theorem Abstract: Selberg’s CLT concerns the typical behaviour of the Riemann zeta function and shows that the […]

  • Resolving the photon ring

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

    https://youtu.be/KCo0iWFox1s General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Shahar Hadar (University of Haifa) Title: Resolving the photon ring Abstract: In the past few years, the Event Horizon Telescope has released the first close-up interferometric images of […]

  • Control of actin cable length by decelerated growth and network geometry

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

    Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Shane McInally, Brandeis Title: Control of actin cable length by decelerated growth and network geometry Abstract: The sizes of many subcellular structures are coordinated with cell size […]

  • Recent progress on coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills dynamics

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal Title: Recent progress on coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills dynamics Abstract: I will discuss my recent work with prof. S.T. Yau on Einstein-Yang-Mills theory. I’ll discuss the main […]

  • Diagonalizing Transition Matrices of Card Shuffles

    Science Center 232 Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138

    Probability Seminar Speaker: Evita Nestoridi (Stonybrook) Title: Diagonalizing Transition Matrices of Card Shuffles Abstract: In their seminal work, Diaconis and Shahshahani used representation theory of the symmetric group to diagonalize […]

  • Black hole collider physics

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

    Speaker: Julio Parra Martinez, Caltech Title: Black hole collider physics Abstract: Despite more than a century since the development of Einstein’s theory, the general relativistic two-body problem remains unsolved. A […]