• Universality of max-margin classifiers

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

    Probability Seminar Speaker: Youngtak Sohn (MIT) Title: Universality of max-margin classifiers Abstract: Many modern learning methods, such as deep neural networks, are so complex that they perfectly fit the training […]

  • Solving spin systems, the Babylonian way

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

    Probability Seminar Speaker: Nicola Kistler (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) Title: Solving spin systems, the Babylonian way Abstract: The replica method, together with Parisi’s symmetry breaking mechanism, is an extremely […]

  • Landscape of quantum phases in quantum materials

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

    Joint Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics and Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Liujun Zou (Perimeter Institute) Title: Landscape of quantum phases in quantum materials Abstract: A central goal of condensed […]

  • Deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models and their fibers

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Zi Yang Kang Title: Deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models and their fibers Abstract: In mirror symmetry, the dual object to a Fano variety is a Landau-Ginzburg model. Broadly, a […]

  • Deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models and their fibers

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

    Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Andrew Harder, Lehigh University Title: Deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models and their fibers Abstract: In mirror symmetry, the dual object to a Fano variety is […]

  • Impossibility results in classical dynamical systems

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

    Speaker: Matthew Foreman (UC Irvine) Title: Impossibility results in classical dynamical systems Abstract: In 1932, motivated by questions in statistical and celestial mechanics, von Neumann proposed classifying the statistical behavior of dynamical systems. In […]

  • Fluid stabilization in slowly expanding cosmological spacetime

    Hybrid - G10

    https://youtu.be/SCIi6R_uTZM General Relativity Seminar Speaker: David Fajman (Vienna) Title: Fluid stabilization in slowly expanding cosmological spacetime Abstract: Relativistic fluids are known to form shocks during their evolution from near-homogeneous initial data. In […]

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 11/7/2023

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Michael Hopkins (Harvard Math) and Minhea Popa (Harvard Math) Topics: Mike Hopkins: What are topological modular forms? Mihnea Popa: What is the abundance conjecture […]

  •  A Long Exact Sequence in Symmetry Breaking

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

    Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Cameron Krulewski (MIT) and Leon Liu (Harvard) Title: A Long Exact Sequence in Symmetry Breaking Abstract: We study defects in symmetry breaking phases, such as domain walls, vortices, […]

  • Peano: Learning Formal Mathematical Reasoning Without Human Data

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

    https://youtu.be/a2S_-pl6onM New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Gabriel Poesia, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University Title: Peano: Learning Formal Mathematical Reasoning Without Human Data Abstract: Peano is a theorem proving […]

  • Fitting ellipsoids to random points

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    Probability Seminar Speaker: Antoine Maillard (ETH Zürich) Title: Fitting ellipsoids to random points Abstract: We consider the problem of exactly fitting an ellipsoid (centered at 0) to n standard Gaussian random […]