Representations of minimal W-algebras: unitarity and modular invariance

Virtual

Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Victor Kac (MIT) Title: Representations of minimal W-algebras: unitarity and modular invariance Abstract: The minimal W-algebras, obtained by quantum Hamiltonian reduction from affina […]

ADHM spaces and their quantizations

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Vasily Krylov, CMSA Title: ADHM spaces and their quantizations Abstract: In their paper “Construction of Instantons,” Atiyah, Drinfeld, Hitchin, and Manin introduced an algebraic construction of the […]

People at CMSA – Nov. 11 – Nov. 15, 2024

CMSA 20 Garden Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 United States

Full Name Role Office # Affiliation Dates Email Address Marwan Mohammd Postdoctoral Fellow 116E CMSA marwan.mizuri@gmail.com Hugo Cui Postdoctoral Fellow 112 CMSA hugo.cui@epfl.ch Iacopo Brivio Postdoctoral Fellow 112 CMSA ibrivio@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu […]

pp Waves: Quasinormal Modes & Hidden Symmetries of Black Holes

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

General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Ahmed Seta, Harvard University Title: pp Waves: Quasinormal Modes & Hidden Symmetries of Black Holes Abstract: The spectrum of quasinormal modes of 4D flat space black holes is […]

Quantum Criticality in Black Hole Scattering

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Uri Kol Title: Quantum Criticality in Black Hole Scattering Abstract: Perturbation theory around rotating black holes captures a few important effects in the physics of gravitational waves […]

Freedman CMSA Seminar

Virtual

Freedman CMSA Seminar *Note: via Zoom only*   2:00-3:30 pm ET Speaker: Michael Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: Some questions and theorems about closed 3 manifolds embedded in S^4 Abstract: Much […]

Emergent Non-Invertible Symmetries —The Adjoint QCD Example

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

Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Shani Nadir Meynet (Uppsala) Title: Emergent Non-Invertible Symmetries — The Adjoint QCD Example Abstract: After reviewing some general properties of generalized symmetries […]

The Einstein-Euler system with a physical vacuum boundary in spherical symmetry

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

General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Marcelo Disconzi, Vanderbilt University Title: The Einstein-Euler system with a physical vacuum boundary in spherical symmetry Abstract: We establish local well-posedness for the Einstein-Euler system with […]

Factorization algebras in TQFT

Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speakers: Mayuko Yamashita, Kyoto University Title: Factorization algebras in TQFT Abstract: This is the first in the series of our working seminars on factorization algebras/homologies. […]

Thinking Like Transformers – A Practical Session

Virtual

New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Gail Weiss, EPFL Title: Thinking Like Transformers - A Practical Session Abstract: With the help of the RASP programming language, we can better imagine […]