Hybrid Fracton Orders
VirtualNathanan Tantivasadakarn (Harvard) Video Title: Hybrid Fracton Orders Abstract: I will introduce a family of gapped quantum phases that exhibit the phenomenology of both conventional three-dimensional topological orders and fracton orders called “Hybrid Fracton Orders”. First, I will present the simplest example of such an order: the “Hybrid X-cube” model, where excitations can be labeled identically to […]
Moduli spaces of stable pairs on algebraic surfaces
VirtualInterdisciplinary Science Seminar Speaker: Yinbang Lin (Tongji University) Title: Moduli spaces of stable pairs on algebraic surfaces Abstract: As a variant of Grothendieck’s Quot schemes, we introduce the moduli space of limit stable pairs. We show an example over a smooth projective algebraic surface where there is a virtual fundamental class. We are able to […]
The nu=5/2 enigma: Recent insights from theory and experiment
Virtualpeaker: Ady Stern & David Mross (Weizmann) Speaker: Ady Stern & David Mross (Weizmann Title: The nu=5/2 enigma: Recent insights from theory and experiment Abstract: Non-Abelian phases of matter have long inspired quantum physicists across various disciplines. The strongest experimental evidence of such a phase arises in quantum Hall systems at the filling factor 5/2 […]
Big Data Conference 2021
Virtualhttps://youtu.be/_ciQkuGYD-I On August 24, 2021, the CMSA hosted our seventh annual Conference on Big Data. The Conference features many speakers from the Harvard community as well as scholars from across the globe, with talks focusing on computer science, statistics, math and physics, and economics. The 2021 Big Data Conference took place virtually on Zoom. Organizers: Shing-Tung Yau, […]
Naturalness and muon anomalous magnetic moment
VirtualTitle: Naturalness and muon anomalous magnetic moment Abstract: We study a model for explaining the apparent deviation of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, (g-2), from the Standard Model expectation. There are no new scalars and hence no new hierarchy puzzles beyond those associated with the Standard model Higgs; the only new particles that are relevant […]
Eppur si muovono: rotations in active matter
Abstract: Living matter relies on the self organization of its components into higher order structures, on the molecular as well as on the cellular, organ or even organism scale. Collective motion due to active transport processes has been shown to be a promising route for attributing fascinating order formation processes on these different length scales. […]