Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Herbert Levine (Northeastern) Title: Frustration-free states of cell fate networks: the case of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition Abstract: Cell fate decisions are made by allowing external signals to […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Sunghyuk Park Title: Quantum UV-IR map and curve counts in skeins Abstract: Quantum UV-IR map (a.k.a. q-nonabelianization map), introduced by Neitzke and Yan, is a map from UV […]
https://youtu.be/TOfxA6N0Eds General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Rodrigo Silva, University of Maryland Title: Quantization of causal diamonds in 2+1 dimensional gravity Abstract: We develop the reduced phase space quantization of causal diamonds […]
Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math and CMSA), Denis Auroux (Harvard Math)
https://youtu.be/VDOvgjk_vVY Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Princeton University Title: Exact Results in Flat Band Hubbard Models Abstract: Flat bands, like those in the kagome lattice or twisted bilayer graphene, are a natural setting […]
https://youtu.be/wTQH6mRDXhw New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Ronen Eldan, Microsoft Research Title: The TinyStories Dataset: How Small Can Language Models Be And Still Speak Coherent Abstract: While generative language models […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Margarita Davydova (MIT) Title: Floquet codes, automorphisms, and quantum computation Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce a new kind of measurement-based quantum computation inspired by Floquet […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Chuck Doran Title: Modularity of Landau-Ginzburg Models Abstract: Fano varieties are the basic building blocks of algebraic varieties. Smooth Fano varieties have been classified in dimensions one (the projective line), […]
Friday, Sep 22, 2023 4:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Pre-talk Speaker: David Wu (Harvard Physics): 10:00-10:30 am Speaker: Damian van de Heisteeg, CMSA Title: Species Scale across String Moduli Spaces Abstract: String theories feature […]
https://youtu.be/WQlkQf25np4 General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Lionel Mason (Oxford) Title: Geometry at Strong coupling for amplitudes/Wilson loops Abstract: The amplitude/Wilson loop correspondence identifies planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills amplitudes with certain null polygonal […]
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Michael Douglas (CMSA) and Mayuko Yamashita (Kyoto University) Topics: Michael Douglas: "What is non-commutative field theory?" Mayuko Yamashita: "What is differential cohomology?"