Quantum Matter Seminar Title: Chiral fermionic CFTs of central charge ≤ 16 Abstract: We classified all chiral fermionic CFTs of central charge ≤ 16 using Kac's theorem and bosonization/fermionization. This […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Marieke Van Beest (SCGP) Title: Monopoles, Scattering, and Generalized Symmetries Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss the problem of electrically charged, massless fermions scattering off […]
General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Suman Kundu (Weizmann Institute) Title: ‘Grey Galaxy’ as the endpoint of the Kerr-AdS super radiant blackhole Abstract: Kerr AdS$_{d+1}$ black holes for $d\geq 3$ suffer from classical […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: John Baez (University of California, Riverside) Title: Two of my favorite numbers: 8 and 24 Abstract: The numbers 8 and 24 play special roles in mathematics. […]
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0NRmB0fnLJTEIjTUSrZ206RAiMRZHCuh On August 31-Sep 1, 2023 the CMSA hosted the ninth annual Conference on Big Data. The Big Data Conference features speakers from the Harvard community as well as scholars […]
Probability Seminar Speaker: Marius Lemm, University of Tuebingen Title: Light cones for open quantum systems Abstract: We consider non-relativistic Markovian open quantum dynamics in continuous space. We show that, up to […]
Probability Seminar Speaker: Arka Adhikari (Stanford) Title: Correlation decay for finite lattice gauge theories Abstract: In the setting of lattice gauge theories with finite (possibly non-Abelian) gauge groups at weak […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT) Title: A 6-year journey: from gravitational anomaly to a unified theory of generalized symmetry Abstract: Emergent symmetry can be generalized symmetry beyond (higher) […]
https://youtu.be/cxdPO4L4GDk General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Diandian Wang(Harvard University) Title: Pole skipping, quasinormal modes, shockwaves and their connection to chaos Abstract: A chaotic quantum system can be studied using the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC). […]
https://youtu.be/vYXTKTmNFHg Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Roman Geiko, UCLA Title: Homotopy classes of loops of Clifford unitaries Abstract: We study Clifford locality-preserving unitaries and stabilizer Hamiltonians by means of Hermitian […]
Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Xueyang Song (MIT) Title: Phase transitions out of quantum Hall states in moire TMD bilayers Abstract: Motivated by the recent experimental breakthroughs in observing Fractional Quantum […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Clay Córdova (U Chicago) Title: Anomalies of Non-Invertible Symmetries