The virtual fundamental class in symplectic geometry
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Dusa McDuff (Columbia University) Title: The virtual fundamental class in symplectic geometry Abstract: Essential to many constructions and applications of symplectic geometry is the ability to count J-holomorphic curves. The moduli spaces […]
Current Developments In Mathematics 2018
Harvard Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MACurrent Developments in Mathematics 2018 Conference. Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 2:15 pm – 6:00 pm Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center, Hall B […]
Computational Principles of Auditory Cortex
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xiaoqin Wang (Johns Hopkins University) Title: Computational Principles of Auditory Cortex Abstract: Auditory cortex is located at the top of a hierarchical processing pathway in the brain that encodes acoustic information. This brain region is crucial […]
Recent progress on mean curvature flow
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Robert Haslhofer (University of Toronto) Title: Recent progress on mean curvature flow Abstract: A family of surfaces moves by mean curvature flow if the velocity at each point is given by the mean curvature […]
Morphogenesis: Geometry and Physics
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJust over a century ago, the biologist, mathematician and philologist D’Arcy Thompson wrote “On growth and form”. The book – a literary masterpiece – is a visionary synthesis of the […]