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  • The Kapustin-Rozanski-Saulina “2-category” of a holomorphic integrable system

    Speaker: Constantin Teleman (UC Berkeley) Title: The Kapustin-Rozanski-Saulina “2-category” of a holomorphic integrable system Abstract: I will present a construction of the object in the title which, applied to the classical Toda system, controls the theory of categorical representations of compact Lie groups, along with applications (some conjectural, some rigorous) to gauged Gromov-Witten theory. Time permitting, we […]

  • CMSA-NTM-Seminar-12.15.21

    Unreasonable effectiveness of the quantum complexity view on quantum many-body physics

    Virtual

    https://youtu.be/wKCgR3aFpnc Speaker: Anurag Anshu, Department of EECS & Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation, UC Berkeley Title: Unreasonable effectiveness of the quantum complexity view on quantum many-body physics Abstract: A central challenge in quantum many-body physics is to estimate the properties of natural quantum states, such as the quantum ground states and Gibbs states. Quantum Hamiltonian complexity […]

  • Low regularity ill-posedness for 3D elastic waves and for 3D ideal compressible MHD driven by shock formation

    Abstract: We construct counterexamples to the local existence of low-regularity solutions to elastic wave equations and to the ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system in three spatial dimensions (3D). Inspired by the recent works of Christodoulou, we generalize Lindblad’s classic results on the scalar wave equation by showing that the Cauchy problems for 3D elastic waves and […]

  • 12/16/2021 Interdisciplinary Science Seminar

    Title: Quadratic reciprocity from a family of adelic conformal field theories Abstract: We consider a deformation of the 2d free scalar field action by raising the Laplacian to a positive real power. It turns out that the resulting non-local generalized free action is invariant under two commuting actions of the global conformal symmetry algebra, although it’s no […]

  • CONDENSED MATTER PROGRAM

    The methods of topology have been applied to condensed matter physics in the study of topological phases of matter. Topological states of matter are new quantum states that can be characterized by their topological properties. For example, the first topological states of matter discovered were the integer quantum Hall states. The two dimensional integer quantum […]

  • Colloquium 2021–22

    During the 2021–22 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Colloquium, organized by Du Pei, Changji Xu, and Michael Simkin. It will take place on Wednesdays at 9:30am – 10:30am (Boston time). The meetings will take place virtually on Zoom. All CMSA postdocs/members are required to attend the weekly CMSA Members’ Seminars, as well as the weekly CMSA […]

  • The smooth closing lemma for area-preserving surface diffeomorphisms

    Virtual

    Speaker: Boyu Zhang, Princeton University Title: The smooth closing lemma for area-preserving surface diffeomorphisms Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce the smooth closing lemma for area-preserving diffeomorphisms on surfaces. The proof is based on a Weyl formula for PFH spectral invariants and a non-vanishing result of twisted Seiberg- Witten Floer homology. This is joint work […]

  • Light strings, strong coupling, and the Swampland

    Member Seminar Speaker: Max Wiesner Title: Light strings, strong coupling, and the Swampland Abstract: In this talk, I will start by reviewing central ideas of the so-called Swampland Program. The Swampland Program aims to identify criteria that distinguish low-energy effective field theories, that can be consistently coupled to quantum gravity, from those theories that become inconsistent […]

  • CMSA-QMMP-1.18.22-1544x2048-1

    Metals with strongly correlated electrons: quantum criticality, disordered interactions, Planckian dissipation, and scale invariance

    Speaker: Aavishkar Patel (UC Berkeley) Title: Metals with strongly correlated electrons: quantum criticality, disordered interactions, Planckian dissipation, and scale invariance Abstract: Metals that do not fit Landau’s famous Fermi liquid paradigm of quasiparticles are plentiful in experiments, but constructing their theoretical description is a major challenge in modern quantum many-body physics. I will describe new […]

  • CMSA-Interdisciplinary-Science-Seminar-01.20.22-1577x2048

    1/20/2022 – Interdisciplinary Science Seminar

    Title: Markov chains, optimal control, and reinforcement learning Abstract: Markov decision processes are a model for several artificial intelligence problems, such as games (chess, Go…) or robotics. At each timestep, an agent has to choose an action, then receives a reward, and then the agent’s environment changes (deterministically or stochastically) in response to the agent’s action. […]

  • AdS with Scale Separation

    Member Seminar Speaker: Daniel Junghans Title: AdS with Scale Separation Abstract: I will talk about Anti-de Sitter solutions in string theory with a parametric separation between the AdS curvature scale and the Kaluza-Klein scale. In particular, I will discuss recent progress on computing backreaction corrections in such solutions, and I will explain how to construct solutions without […]

  • General Relativity Program

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

    During the Spring 2022 semester, the CMSA hosted a program on General Relativity. This semester-long program included four minicourses,  a conference, and a workshop. General Relativity Mincourses: March–May, 2022 General Relativity Conference: April 4–8, 2022 General Relativity Workshop: May 2–5, 2022   Program Visitors Dan Lee, CMSA/CUNY, 1/24/22 – 5/20/22 Stefan Czimek, Brown, 2/27/22 – […]