Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar Speaker: Mikhail Ivanov (MIT) Title: Love and Naturalness Abstract: Recent progress in gravitational wave astronomy has spurred the development of efficient tools to describe […]
Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Lecture Speaker: Michael Borinsky, ETH Zurich Title: On the Euler characteristic of the commutative graph complex and the top-weight cohomology of the moduli space of […]
Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Lecture Speaker: Chaim Even-Zohar, Technion Title: Amplituhedron tiles and twistor polynomials
Amplituhedra, Cluster Algebras, and Positive Geometry Dates: May 29-31, 2024 Location: Harvard CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 & via Zoom In recent years, a remarkable paradigm shift has […]
https://youtu.be/HWL5Rg9B624 Speaker: Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia Title: Corks for exotic diffeomorphisms Abstract: Exotic smooth structures on simply-connected 4-manifolds are known to be related by cork twists: cutting out and re-gluing […]
https://youtu.be/18eVp3fOh-4 Speaker: Michael Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: Can embedding problems be used to distinguish S^4 from other (possible) homotopy 4-spheres? Abstract: There are approaches in the literature (using Khovanov homology) […]
Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar Speaker: Arkya Chatterjee (MIT) Title: Phases and Phase Transitions of Spin Chains with Non-invertible Symmetries Abstract: Non-invertible symmetries are often emergent at low-energies […]
Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar Speaker: Rahul Sahay (Harvard) Title: Landscape of Tensor Network States Preparable from Measurement Abstract: Measurements and feedback have emerged as powerful resources for creating many-body quantum […]
Workshop on Fibration and Degeneration in Calabi-Yau Geometry Dates: June 24-26, 2024 Location: Harvard CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Organizer: Chuck Doran, Harvard CMSA Calabi-Yau manifolds occupy a […]
Speaker: Shalabh Gautam, International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Title: Compactified Hyperboloidal Evolution in Numerical Relativity Abstract: In the field of numerical relativity, a major challenge is […]
Advances in Probability Theory and Interacting Particle Systems A conference in honor of S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. August 26 - August 28, 2024 Harvard Geological Lecture Hall Conference Website: www.math.harvard.edu/event/math-conference-honoring-srinivasa-varadhan […]
Speaker: Jing-Yuan Chen, Tsinghua University Title: Instanton in Lattice QCD from Higher Categories and Higher Anafunctors Abstract: Putting continuum QFT (not just TQFT) on the lattice is important for both fundamental understandings […]