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  • 4/3/2019 Colloquium

    Deregulation through Direct Democracy: Lessons from Liquor

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker:  Sarah Moshary (University of Chicago) Title:  Deregulation through Direct Democracy: Lessons from Liquor Abstract:  This paper examines the merits of state control versus private provision of spirits retail, using the 2012 deregulation of liquor sales in Washington state as an event study. We document effects along a number of dimensions: prices, product variety, convenience, substitution to other goods, […]

  • Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott: Mina Aganagic

    Harvard Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

    On April 9 and 10, 2019 the CMSA hosted two lectures by Mina Aganagic (UC Berkeley).  This was the second annual Math Science Lecture Series held in honor of Raoul Bott. The lectures took place in Science Center, Hall C “Two math lessons from string theory”                         […]

  • 4/10/2019 Colloquium

    Inequality Aversion, Populism, and the Backlash Against Globalization

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago) Title: Inequality Aversion, Populism, and the Backlash Against Globalization Abstract: Motivated by the recent rise of populism in western democracies, we develop a model in which a populist backlash emerges endogenously in a growing economy. In the model, voters dislike inequality, especially the high consumption of "elites." Economic growth exacerbates inequality due to […]

  • Workshop on Invariance and Geometry in Sensation, Action and Cognition

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    As part of the program on Mathematical Biology a workshop on Invariance and Geometry in Sensation, Action and Cognition will take place on April 15-17, 2019. Legend has it that above the door to Plato’s Academy was inscribed “Μηδείς άγεωµέτρητος είσίτω µον τήν στέγην”, translated as “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter my doors”. While geometry and invariance has […]

  • Machine Learning Physics: From Quantum Mechanics to Holographic Geometry

    Speaker: Yi-Zhuang You (UCSD) Title: Machine Learning Physics: From Quantum Mechanics to Holographic Geometry Abstract: Inspired by the "third wave" of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning has found rapid applications in various topics of physics research. Perhaps one of the most ambitious goals of machine learning physics is to develop novel approaches that ultimately allows AI to discover new concepts and governing equations of physics from experimental observations. […]