2-categorical 3d mirror symmetry
Abstract: It is by now well-known that mirror symmetry may be expressed as an equivalence between categories associated to dual Kahler manifolds. Following a proposal of Teleman, we inaugurate a program […]
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Birkhoff’s conjecture on integrable billiards and Kac’s problem “hearing the shape of a drum”
Abstract: Billiards on an elliptical billiard table are completely integrable: phase space is foliated by invariant submanifolds for the billiard flow. Birkhoff conjectured that ellipses are the only plane domains with […]
Summing Over Bordisms In 2d TQFT
Abstract: Some recent work in the quantum gravity literature has considered what happens when the amplitudes of a TQFT are summed over the bordisms between fixed in-going and out-going boundaries. We […]
A Hike through the Swampland
https://youtu.be/9Mq9Jvmo3ic Abstract: The Swampland program aims at uncovering the universal implications of quantum gravity at low-energy physics. I will review the basic ideas of the Swampland program, formal and phenomenological implications, […]
On optimization and generalization in deep learning
Abstract: Deep neural networks have achieved significant empirical success in many fields, including the fields of computer vision and natural language processing. Along with its empirical success, deep learning has been theoretically shown to be […]
Moduli Space of Metric SUSY Graphs
Member Seminar Speaker: Yingying Wu Title: Moduli Space of Metric SUSY Graphs Abstract: SUSY curves are algebraic curves with additional supersymmetric or supergeometric structures. In this talk, I will present […]
3/21/2022 – Swampland Seminar
Open Mic Discussion Topic: Entropy bounds (species bound, Bekenstein bound, CKN bound, and the like)
Bulk-boundary correspondence for vacuum asymptotically Anti-de Sitter spacetimes
Abstract: The AdS/CFT conjecture in physics posits the existence of a correspondence between gravitational theories in asymptotically Anti-de Sitter (aAdS) spacetimes and field theories on their conformal boundary. In this presentation, we prove rigorous […]
Flip processes
Abstract: We introduce a class of random graph processes, which we call \emph{flip processes}. Each such process is given by a \emph{rule} which is just a function $\mathcal{R}:\mathcal{H}_k\rightarrow \mathcal{H}_k$ from all […]
Fluctuation scaling or Taylor’s law of heavy-tailed data, illustrated by U.S. COVID-19 cases and deaths
Speaker: Joel E. Cohen (Rockefeller University and Columbia University) Title: Fluctuation scaling or Taylor’s law of heavy-tailed data, illustrated by U.S. COVID-19 cases and deaths Abstract: Over the last century, ecologists, statisticians, physicists, […]
Non-zero momentum requires long-range entanglement
Youtube Video Abstract: I will show that a quantum state in a lattice spin (boson) system must be long-range entangled if it has non-zero lattice momentum, i.e. if it is […]
Formal Mathematics Statement Curriculum Learning
https://youtu.be/4zINaGrPc9M Speaker: Stanislas Polu, OpenAI Title: Formal Mathematics Statement Curriculum Learning Abstract: We explore the use of expert iteration in the context of language modeling applied to formal mathematics. We show […]