Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Program Dates: April 15 - May 24, 2024 Location: Harvard CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 This program will bring together and foster interaction […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Franco Rota, University of Glasgow Title: Mirror symmetry and log del Pezzo surfaces Abstract: The homological mirror symmetry conjecture predicts a duality, expressed in terms of categorical […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Kevin Mitchell, University of California, Merced Title: Controlling chaotic advection in 2D active nematics Abstract: Recent years have seen a surge of interest in active materials, in […]
Speaker: Partha Guha, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi Title: Geometry of Generalized Lienard Equations, Contact Geometry and Metriplectic Structure Abstract: We start with a self-contained brief review of the construction of […]
Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar Speaker: Mikhail Ivanov (MIT) Title: Love and Naturalness Abstract: Recent progress in gravitational wave astronomy has spurred the development of efficient tools to describe […]
Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Lecture Speaker: Michael Borinsky, ETH Zurich Title: On the Euler characteristic of the commutative graph complex and the top-weight cohomology of the moduli space of […]
Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Lecture Speaker: Chaim Even-Zohar, Technion Title: Amplituhedron tiles and twistor polynomials
Amplituhedra, Cluster Algebras, and Positive Geometry Dates: May 29-31, 2024 Location: Harvard CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 & via Zoom In recent years, a remarkable paradigm shift has […]
https://youtu.be/HWL5Rg9B624 Speaker: Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia Title: Corks for exotic diffeomorphisms Abstract: Exotic smooth structures on simply-connected 4-manifolds are known to be related by cork twists: cutting out and re-gluing […]
https://youtu.be/18eVp3fOh-4 Speaker: Michael Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: Can embedding problems be used to distinguish S^4 from other (possible) homotopy 4-spheres? Abstract: There are approaches in the literature (using Khovanov homology) […]
Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar Speaker: Arkya Chatterjee (MIT) Title: Phases and Phase Transitions of Spin Chains with Non-invertible Symmetries Abstract: Non-invertible symmetries are often emergent at low-energies […]
Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar Speaker: Rahul Sahay (Harvard) Title: Landscape of Tensor Network States Preparable from Measurement Abstract: Measurements and feedback have emerged as powerful resources for creating many-body quantum […]