Member Seminar Speaker: Aghil Alaee Title: A quasi-local mass in general relativity Abstract: One of the fundamental open problems in geometric analysis and mathematical relativity is constructing a (universal) energy/mass quantity to compute the energy/mass of a finite region of spacetime, which can include a star, black hole, or galaxy. We define a new gauge-independent quasi-local mass […]
https://youtu.be/y6Gc0G_2Mf0 CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Prof. Scott Kominers will present a lecture in the CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Series. Date: Monday, November 20, 2023 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am ET Location: Via Zoom Webinar Title: 60 Years of Matching: From Gale and Shapley to Trading Networks Abstract: Gale and Shapley's 1962 American Mathematical Monthly paper, "College Admissions and the […]
https://youtu.be/3i_DtaeQ0nE Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Prashant Kumar, University of Chicago Title: Emergent composite-fermion Luttinger liquid at the half-filled Landau level Abstract: The half-filled Landau level is a fascinating point in the phase diagram of quantum Hall effect that has been hypothesized to be a non-Fermi liquid where composite-fermions (CFs) emerge at low energies. In this talk, […]
Speaker: Jeff W. Lichtman (Harvard University) Title: The analytical challenges of connectomics Abstract: Recent progress in generating synapse-level maps of brains, a field known as connectomics, brings both opportunities and challenges. The upside is that the biophysical instantiation of memories, behaviors, and knowledge will soon be before us. The downside is that no one knows exactly how […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Guilherme Delfino Silva (Boston University) Title: Modulated Gauge Theories and Fracton Behavior in 2D Abstract: In this talk we investigate deconfined phases of two-dimensional ZN lattice gauge theories associated to spatially modulated symmetries. In order to study the low-energy physics of such modulated gauge theories we propose and explore exactly solvable […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: An Huang (Brandeis) Pre-talk Speaker: TBA: 10:00-10:30 am Title: A p-adic Laplacian on the Tate curve Abstract: We shall first explain the relation between a family of deformations of genus zero p-adic string worldsheet action and Tate's thesis. We then propose a genus one p-adic string worldsheet action. […]
Speaker: Dana Bartosova (University of Florida) Title: What do topological dynamics, combinatorics, and model theory have in common? Abstract: A striking correspondence between dynamics of automorphism groups of countable first order structures and Ramsey theory of finitary approximation of the structures was established in 2005 by Kechris, Pestov, and Todocevic. Since then, their work has been generalized […]
https://youtu.be/cSgyLwg0v00 General Relativity Seminar Speaker: David Kubiznak (Charles University) Title: Remarkable symmetries of rotating black holes Abstract: It is well known that the Kerr geometry admits a non-trivial Killing tensor and its 'square root' known as the Killing-Yano tensor. These two objects stand behind Carter's constant of geodesic motion as well as allow for separability of test […]
Probability Seminar Speaker: Jun Yin (UCLA) Title: A random matrix model towards the quantum chaos transition conjecture Abstract: The Quantum Chaos Conjecture has long fascinated researchers, postulating a critical spectrum phase transition that separates integrable systems from chaotic systems in quantum mechanics. In the realm of integrable systems, eigenvectors remain localized, and local eigenvalue statistics […]
https://youtu.be/fB9xJyJj8zU Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Valentin Crepel, Flatiron Institute Title: Anomalous Landau level analog in solids: search and implications for 2d heterostructures Abstract: The recent experimental observation of fractional Chen insulators — the analog of fractional quantum Hall states realized in absence of any applied magnetic field — calls for more detailed theoretical investigations […]
Probability Seminar Speaker: Wei-Kuo Chen (University of Minnesota) Title: A Gaussian convexity for logarithmic moment generating function Abstract: Convex functions of Gaussian vectors are prominent objectives in many fields of mathematical studies. In this talk, I will establish a new convexity for the logarithmic moment generating function for this object and draw two consequences. The first leads to […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Samy Jelassi Title: An introduction to mixture of experts in deep learning Abstract: Scale has opened new frontiers in natural language processing – but at a high cost. Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) have been proposed as a path to even larger and more capable language models. They select different parameters for each incoming example. By […]