CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: The Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem
VirtualDan Freed (The University of Texas at Austin) Title: The Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Abstract: The story of the index theorem ties together the Gang of Four—Atiyah, Bott, Hirzebruch, and Singer—and lies at […]
4/21/2021 Quantum Matter Seminar
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Homotopy type theory and the quest for extensionality
VirtualSpeaker: Michael Shulman - Dept. of Mathematics, University of San Diego Title: Homotopy type theory and the quest for extensionality Abstract: Over the past decades, dependent type theory has proven to […]
4/22/2021 Quantum Matter Seminar
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CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Indistinguishability Obfuscation: How to Hide Secrets within Software
VirtualAmit Sahai (UCLA) Title: Indistinguishability Obfuscation: How to Hide Secrets within Software Abstract: At least since the initial public proposal of public-key cryptography based on computational hardness conjectures (Diffie and Hellman, 1976), cryptographers […]
4/26/2021 Math Physics Seminar
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CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Moment maps and the Yang-Mills functional
VirtualFrances Kirwan (University of Oxford) Title: Moment maps and the Yang-Mills functional Abstract: In the early 1980s Michael Atiyah and Raoul Bott wrote two influential papers, ‘The Yang-Mills equations over Riemann surfaces’ […]