• 9/28/2021 Combinatorics, Physics and Probability Seminar

    Title: The hypersimplex and the m=2 amplituhedron Abstract: I’ll discuss a curious correspondence between the m=2 amplituhedron, a 2k-dimensional subset of Gr(k, k+2), and the hypersimplex, an (n-1)-dimensional polytope in […]

  • The Mirror Clemens-Schmid Sequence

    Abstract: I will present a four-term exact sequence relating the cohomology of a fibration to the cohomology of an open set obtained by removing the preimage of a general linear section […]

  • Oscillations in the thermal conductivity of a spin liquid*

    Virtual

    Title: Oscillations in the thermal conductivity of a spin liquid* Abstract: The layered honeycomb magnet alpha-RuCl3 orders below 7 K in a zigzag phase in zero field. An in-plane magnetic […]

  • Constructions in combinatorics via neural networks

    https://youtu.be/ufG0YLj_sik Speaker: Adam Wagner, Tel Aviv University Title: Constructions in combinatorics via neural networks Abstract: Recently, significant progress has been made in the area of machine learning algorithms, and they […]

  • Langlands duality for 3 manifolds

    Virtual

    Speaker: David Jordan (U Edinburgh) Title: Langlands duality for 3 manifolds Abstract: Langlands duality began as a deep and still mysterious conjecture in number theory, before branching into a similarly deep and mysterious conjecture of […]

  • Cytoskeletal Energetics and Energy Metabolism

    Abstract: Life is a nonequilibrium phenomenon. Metabolism provides a continuous flux of energy that dictates the form and function of many subcellular structures. These subcellular structures are active materials, composed […]

  • Instability of naked singularities in general relativity

    Member Seminar Speaker: Jue Liu Title: Instability of naked singularities in general relativity Abstract: One of the fundamental problems in mathematical relativity is the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, proposed by Penrose, which […]

  • Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    On October 4th and October 5th, 2021, Harvard CMSA will host its annual Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott. This year’s speaker will be Michael Freedman (Microsoft). The lectures will take place from 11:00am […]

  • Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott: Michael Freedman

    Virtual

    On October 4th and October 5th, 2021, Harvard CMSA hosted the annual Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott. This year’s speaker was Michael Freedman (Microsoft). The lectures took place on Zoom. […]

  • Angular momentum in general relativity

    Abstract: The definition of angular momentum in general relativity has been a subtle issue since the 1960′, due to the discovery of “supertranslation ambiguity”: the angular momentums recorded by two distant […]