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  • Topological modular forms and heretoric string theory

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

    Special Seminar Speaker: Mayuko Yamashita, Kyoto University Title: Topological modular forms and heretoric string theory Abstract: In this talk I will explain my works with Y. Tachikawa to study anomaly […]

  • Motivic decomposition of moduli space from brane dynamics

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

    Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Pre-talk Speaker: Kai Xu (CMSA): 10:00-10:30 am Speaker: Kai Xu (CMSA) Title: Motivic decomposition of moduli space from brane dynamics Abstract: Supersymmetric gauge theories […]

  • Gravitational Instantons

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

    Speaker: Yu-Shen Lin (Boston University) Title: Gravitational Instantons Abstract: Gravitational instantons were introduced by Hawking as building blocks of his Euclidean quantum gravity theory back in the 1970s. These are […]

  • A Smooth Horizon without a Smooth Horizon

    General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Chethan Krishnan (IISc Bangalore) Title: A Smooth Horizon without a Smooth Horizon Abstract: I will talk about some work that is about to appear, where we note one […]

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 10/3/2023

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math & CMSA) and Dan Berwick-Evans (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Topics: Dan Freed: What is framing anomaly? How is it different […]

  • Dipolar and modulated symmetry protected topological phases

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

    https://youtu.be/7sA3r5M1oT8 <strong>Topological Quantum Matter Seminar</strong> <strong>Speaker:</strong> Ho Tat Lam, MIT <strong>Title:</strong> Dipolar and modulated symmetry protected topological phases <strong>Abstract:</strong> Modulated symmetries are symmetries whose symmetry generators exhibit spatial modulations. We will […]

  • Random matrices and large deviations 

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Benjamin McKenna Title: Random matrices and large deviations Abstract: We give a generalist overview of random matrices and their (a)typical behaviors. In recent years, classical results have been complemented by […]

  • Tidal Squeezing of Black Holes

    General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Maria Rodriguez (Utah) Title: Tidal Squeezing of Black Holes Abstract: Recent developments indicate that Kerr black holes do not deform when perturbed by a static external gravitational field. Relying on […]

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 10/10/23

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math and CMSA) and Sunghyuk Park (CMSA) Topics: Dan Freed: What is Dijkgraaf-Witten theory? Sunghyuk Park: What happened at the Clay Math Institute […]

  • LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

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

    https://youtu.be/u-pkmdkQoMU New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Alex Gu, MIT Dept. of EE&CS Title: LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in proving formal […]

  • Non-invertible symmetries, leptons, quarks, and why multiple generations

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

    Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Seth Koren (Notre Dame) Title: Non-invertible symmetries, leptons, quarks, and why multiple generations Abstract: Generalized global symmetries are present in theories of particle physics, and understanding their […]