• The black hole information paradox

    Speaker: Samir Mathur (Ohio State University) Title: The black hole information paradox Abstract: In 1975, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes radiate away in a manner that violates quantum theory. Starting in […]

  • Machine learning with mathematicians

    https://youtu.be/DMvmcTQuofE Speaker: Alex Davies, DeepMind Title: Machine learning with mathematicians Abstract: Can machine learning be a useful tool for research mathematicians? There are many examples of mathematicians pioneering new technologies […]

  • 1/27/2022 – Interdisciplinary Science Seminar

    Title: Polynomials vanishing at lattice points in convex sets Abstract: Let P be a convex subset of R^2. For large d, what is the smallest degree r_d of a polynomial vanishing at […]

  • Singular Calabi-Yau mirror symmetry

    Speaker: Bong Lian Title: Singular Calabi-Yau mirror symmetry Abstract: We will consider a class of Calabi-Yau varieties given by cyclic branched covers of a fixed semi Fano manifold. The first […]

  • Maximal quantum chaos of the critical Fermi surface

    Speaker: Maria Tikhanovskaya (Harvard) Title: Maximal quantum chaos of the critical Fermi surface Abstract: In this talk, I will describe many-body quantum chaos in a recently proposed large-N theory for critical Fermi […]

  • Curve-counting with fixed domain (“Tevelev degrees”)

    Virtual

    Abstract: We will consider the following problem: if (C,x_1,…,x_n) is a fixed general pointed curve, and X is a fixed target variety with general points y_1,…,y_n, then how many maps f:C -> […]

  • Learning and inference from sensitive data

    Virtual

    Speaker: Adam Smith (Boston University) Title: Learning and inference from sensitive data Abstract: Consider an agency holding a large database of sensitive personal information—say,  medical records, census survey answers, web searches, or genetic data. The agency would […]

  • Kramers-Wannier-like duality defects in higher dimensions

    Title: Kramers-Wannier-like duality defects in higher dimensions Abstract: I will introduce a class of non-invertible topological defects in (3 + 1)d gauge theories whose fusion rules are the higher-dimensional analogs of those […]