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 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Alexander Grosberg (NYU) Title: Nuclear chromodynamics: non-equilibrium phase transition in the nucleus of a living cell Abstract: Nucleus of a living cell houses a cell genome - […]
https://youtu.be/Jf8ONC2tUfc Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Bruno Mera, Instituto Superior Tecnico Title: Uniqueness of Landau levels and their analogs with higher Chern numbers Abstract: Lowest Landau level wavefunctions are eigenstates of the Hamiltonian […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Sheldon Katz, UIUC Title: Stacky small resolutions of determinantal octic double solids and noncommutative Gopakumar-Vafa invariants Abstract: A determinantal octic double solid is […]
Speaker: Brian Williams (Boston University) Title: Koszul duality in QFT Abstract: We will describe appearances of the algebraic phenomena of Koszul duality in the context of boundary conditions and defects […]
https://youtu.be/cboxkchYFUk General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Daniel Kolb (Max Planck Institute) Title: Quasi-Local Mass in a Binary Black Hole Merger Abstract: One of the major open problems in classical general relativity is […]
https://youtu.be/QGVYBN7vBT8 Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Amanda Young, UIUC Title: A bulk gap in the presence of edge states for a truncated Haldane pseudopotential Abstract: Haldane pseudopotentials were first introduced […]
https://youtu.be/JYt-ldZ3DqM New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Abhishek Panigrahi, Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University Title: On the Power of Forward pass through Transformer Architectures Abstract: Highly trained transformers are […]