Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Lecture Speaker: Jacob Bourjaily, Penn State Title: The Algebraic and Transcendental Structure of Perturbative QFT
Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Lecture Speaker: Ruth Britto, Trinity Title: Cuts and Symbols
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Eric Pichon-Pharabod, Universite Paris-Saclay Title: Computing periods of hypersurfaces and elliptic surfaces via effective homology Abstract: The period matrix of a smooth complex projective variety X encodes the isomorphism between its singular homology and its algebraic De Rham cohomology. Numerical approximations with sufficient precision of the entries of this […]
Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar Speaker: Eslam Khalaf (Harvard) Title: From quantum Hall to Hubbard physics in twisted bilayer graphene Abstract: Early on it was noticed that twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has elements in common with two paradigmatic examples of strongly correlated physics: Hubbard physics and quantum Hall physics. On the one hand, […]
CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Robert Moscrop, Harvard CMSA Title: On the landscape of 4d N=2 SCFTs Abstract: Four-dimensional conformal field theories with sufficient (N = 2) supersymmetry are highly constrained. So much so, there has been an ongoing effort to classify them using only information about their moduli space of vacua. In this talk, I will review […]
General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Mikhail Molodyk, Stanford Title: An analogue of non-interacting quantum field theory in Riemannian signature Abstract: Recent advances using microlocal tools have led to constructions, for wave operators on various classes of spacetimes, of four distinguished Fredholm inverses which have the singular behavior required of retarded, advanced, Feynman, and anti-Feynman propagators in QFT. Vasy […]
Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar Speaker: Junyi Zhang, Johns Hopkins University Title: Improving Mean-Field Theory for Quantum Magnets Abstract: Frustrated magnets have garnered significant attention because of their potential to host exotic spin liquids, while many real material candidates exhibit magnetic orders. Due to their proximity to spin liquid phases, the semiclassical descriptions […]
Colloquium Speaker: Madhu Sudan, Harvard University Title: Errors and Correction in Cumulative Knowledge Abstract: Societal accumulation of knowledge is a complex, and arguably error-prone, process. The correctness of new units of knowledge depends not only on the correctness of the new reasoning, but also on the correctness of old units that the new one builds […]
CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Jue Liu Title: Quasilocal mass for general domains in space Abstract: Diffeomorphism-invariant quasilocal mass in classical general relativity has been studied for decades, but it is still an open problem how to define quasi-local mass for general domains with multiple boundaries in space. Using the Hamiltonian formulation, we will provide a new way […]
Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Lecture Speaker: James Drummond, University of Southampton Title: Multiple light-like Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory
Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Lecture Speaker: Matteo Parisi, Harvard CMSA Title: The amplituhedron and cluster algebras
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Franco Rota, University of Glasgow Title: Mirror symmetry and log del Pezzo surfaces Abstract: The homological mirror symmetry conjecture predicts a duality, expressed in terms of categorical equivalences, between the complex geometry of a variety X (the B side) and the symplectic geometry of its mirror object Y (the A side). Motivated […]