• Holographic Cone of Average Entropies and Universality of Black Holes

    Virtual

    Speaker: Bartek Czech, Tsinghua University Title: Holographic Cone of Average Entropies and Universality of Black Holes Abstract:  In the AdS/CFT correspondence, the holographic entropy cone, which identifies von Neumann entropies of CFT […]

  • Topological Quantum Gravity and the Ricci Flow – Part II

    Abstract: In this sequence of talks, I will describe our work with Alexander Frenkel and Stephen Randall, in which we presented a novel topological quantum gravity, relating three previously unrelated […]

  • Extreme Black Holes: Anabasis and Accidental Symmetry

    Virtual

      https://youtu.be/USKZjJ8_LI0   Speaker: Achilleas Porfyriadis, Harvard Black Hole Initiative Title: Extreme Black Holes: Anabasis and Accidental Symmetry Abstract: The near-horizon region of black holes near extremality is universally AdS_2-like. In this […]

  • Singular Set in Obstacle Problems

    Abstract: In this talk we describe a new method to study the singular set in the obstacle problem. This method does not depend on monotonicity formulae and works for fully […]

  • Rational Polypols

    Abstract: Eugene Wachspress introduced polypols as real bounded semialgebraic sets in the plane that generalize polygons. He aimed to generalize barycentric coordinates from triangles to arbitrary polygons and further to […]

  • Virtual localization for Artin stacks

    Virtual

    Abstract: This is a report about work in progress with: Adeel Khan, Aloysha Latyntsev, Hyeonjun Park and Charanya Ravi. We will describe a virtual Atiyah-Bott formula for Artin stacks.  In the Deligne-Mumford […]

  • General Relativity Program Minicourses

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

    Minicourses General Relativity Program Minicourses During the Spring 2022 semester, the CMSA hosted a program on General Relativity. This semester-long program included four minicourses running in March, April, and May;  […]

  • Dimers and webs

    Virtual

    Speaker: Richard Kenyon (Yale) Title: Dimers and webs Abstract: We consider SL_n-local systems on graphs on surfaces and show how the associated Kasteleyn matrix can be used to compute probabilities of various […]