CMSA Q&A Seminar: Edgar Shaghoulian
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Edgar Shaghoulian, UC Santa Cruz Topic: What are the main questions in quantum gravity today?
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Joint BHI/CMSA Foundation Seminar: Quantum Criticality in Black Hole Dynamics
Black Hole Initiative, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoint BHI/CMSA Foundation Seminar Location: BHI Seminar Room Speaker: Uri Kol, Harvard CMSA Title: Quantum Criticality in Black Hole Dynamics Abstract: Black hole perturbation theory captures a few important effects in the dynamics of binary mergers, such as tidal deformations and the decay of ringdown modes, as well as the physics of the photon ring. […]
A homotopy of 2d SCFTs and an implication for Topological Modular Forms
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesQuantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Vivek Saxena (YITP Stony Brook and NHETC Rutgers) Title: A homotopy of 2d SCFTs and an implication for Topological Modular Forms Abstract: The Segal-Stolz-Teichner conjecture states that there exists an isomorphism between deformation classes of two-dimensional N=(0,1) superconformal field theories (SCFTs) and generalized cohomology classes known as […]
Review of the excision property in factorization homology
Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, CambridgeGeometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Keyou Zeng, Harvard CMSA Title: Review of the excision property in factorization homology
Stochastic Process and Noncommutative Geometry
HybridMathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Zichang Wang (Tsinghua University) Title: Stochastic Process and Noncommutative Geometry Abstract: We explain a stochastic approach to topological field theory and present a case study of quantum mechanical model and its relation to noncommutative geometry. For detail reference, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12360
CMSA/MATH Welcome Back Gathering
CMSA 20 Garden Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 United StatesThursday, Jan. 30, 2025 4:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.
Smooth projective fibrations over the projective line and their sections
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMember Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio Title: Smooth projective fibrations over the projective line and their sections Abstract: Suppose $f\colon X\to \mathbf{CP}^1$ is a smooth projective fibration, is it then true that $f$ has a section? This deceptively simple result was established by Seidel and McDuff using deep methods of symplectic geometry. Alex Pieloch recently generalized this to morphisms […]
Topological to Gravitational Leptogenesis, via Ultra Unification
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesQuantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Juven Wang (LIMS, Royal Institution) Title: Topological to Gravitational Leptogenesis, via Ultra Unification Abstract: We propose a new mechanism for leptogenesis, named Topological Leptogenesis, in which dark matter consists of topological order, so gapped anyon excitations decay to generate the Standard Model lepton asymmetry. Topological Leptogenesis is in […]
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Rational approximation and the AAA algorithm
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesColloquium Speaker: Nick Trefethen, Harvard University Title: Rational approximation and the AAA algorithm Approximation by rational functions used to be mainly a theoretical subject, but with the introduction of the AAA algorithm in 2018, it became computationally practical and indeed easy. The implications for what we can do numerically are enormous. This talk will outline […]
The mass angular momentum inequality
VirtualGeneral Relativity Seminar Speaker: Gilbert Weinstein, Ariel University Title: The mass angular momentum inequality Abstract: We show that either there is a counterexample to black hole uniqueness, in the form of a regular axisymmetric stationary vacuum spacetime with an asymptotically flat end and multiple degenerate horizons which is ‘ADM stable’, or the following statement holds. […]
Blob homology
Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, CambridgeGeometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Sunghyuk Park, Harvard CMSA Title: Blob homology
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Subir Sachdev
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University Topic: What is a quantum critical region?