CMSA Q&A Seminar: Anurag Anshu
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Anurag Anshu, Harvard University Topic: What is quantum complexity theory?
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A new construction of c = 1 conformal blocks
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Qianyu Hao, University of Geneva Title: A new construction of c = 1 conformal blocks Abstract: The Virasoro conformal blocks are very interesting since they have many connections to other areas of math and physics. For example, when c = 1, they are related to tau functions of Painlevé equations. I will first explain what […]
Perturbative Factorization Algebras
Science Center Hall E 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesGeometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Ahsan Khan Title: Perturbative Factorization Algebras Abstract: In physics the starting point in studying a QFT is to write down an appropriate action functional. My talk will aim to sketch how this connects with the framework of factorization algebras.
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CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Bjorn Poonen, MIT
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United Stateshttps://youtu.be/HcKVfUcffUo CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Date: November 21, 2024 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am ET Location: CMSA G10, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA & via Zoom Speaker: Bjorn Poonen, MIT Title: Ranks of elliptic curves Abstract: Elliptic curves are simplest varieties whose rational points are not fully understood, and they are the simplest projective varieties […]
Skein valued curve counts for the topological vertex and knot conormals
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Tobias Ekholm, Uppsala University Title: Skein valued curve counts for the topological vertex and knot conormals Abstract: Combining the invariance of holomorphic curve counts in the skein module with a study of holomorphic curves at infinity of the vertex we find three simple skein operator polynomials that annihilates […]
Identity crises phenomena in the large cardinal hierarchy
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMember Seminar Speaker: Alejandro Poveda Title: Identity crises phenomena in the large cardinal hierarchy Abstract: It is well-known that certain mathematical questions cannot be answered on the grounds of the standard foundation of mathematics. Large cardinal axioms constitute a series of postulates about the higher infinite which permit to classify these undecidable problems in a coherent hierarchy way. […]
Foundation Seminar
Black Hole Initiative, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFoundation Seminar (Joint Seminar with BHI) Title: Searching for Dark Matter in the Sky Abstract: Astrophysical and cosmological observations have allowed us to measure the abundance of dark matter and have provided important information on its properties. I will discuss past, present and future efforts to map the gravitational footprint of dark matter throughout the […]
Mathematical Structures of Scattering Amplitudes
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesColloquium Speaker: Anastasia Volovich, Brown University Title: Mathematical Structures of Scattering Amplitudes Abstract: Planar N=4 Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes have been computed to very high loop order. They have many remarkable properties that have sparked interest from mathematicians working on combinatorics, algebraic geometry, and number theory. At the same time, several methods that have been developed […]
Computability on $\mathbb R$ and other continuum-size structures
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesColloquium Speaker: Russell Miller, CUNY Title: Computability on $\mathbb R$ and other continuum-size structures Abstract: We begin by recalling the notion of a computable function on the real numbers $\mathbb R$, developed independently by Gregorczyk and Lacombe over sixty years ago. Using this notion, we note that the real numbers that are themselves computable form […]
Mass for the large and for the small
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesGeneral Relativity Seminar Speaker: Tin Yau Tsang, Courant Institute, New York University Title: Mass for the large and for the small Abstract: Seeking a meaningful geometric (physical) invariant to describe a spacetime has sparked research in both mathematics and physics. In this talk, we will first see the fundamental progress made by Schoen-Yau and Witten […]
Factorization Homology
Science Center Hall E 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesGeometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speakers: Sunghyuk Park and Vasily Krylov, Harvard CMSA Title: Factorization Homology
Can Transformers Reason Logically? A Study in SAT-Solving
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United Stateshttps://youtu.be/o7uac6DuzcQ New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Leyan Pan, Georgia Tech Title: Can Transformers Reason Logically? A Study in SAT-Solving Abstract: Transformer-based LLMs have apparently demonstrated capabilities that resembles human reasoning. In our recent work, we investigated the Boolean reasoning abilities of decoder-only Transformers equipped with Chain-of-Thought, establishing that a Transformer model can decide all […]