Workshop on Symmetries and Gravity Dates: January 21-24, 2025 Location: Harvard CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Organizers: Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins University), Patrick Jefferson (Johns Hopkins University), Yiming […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Edgar Shaghoulian, UC Santa Cruz Topic: What are the main questions in quantum gravity today?
Joint BHI/CMSA Foundation Seminar Location: BHI Seminar Room Speaker: Uri Kol, Harvard CMSA Title: Quantum Criticality in Black Hole Dynamics Abstract: Black hole perturbation theory captures a few important effects […]
Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Vivek Saxena (YITP Stony Brook and NHETC Rutgers) Title: A homotopy of 2d SCFTs and an implication for Topological Modular Forms Abstract: […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Keyou Zeng, Harvard CMSA Title: Review of the excision property in factorization homology
Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Zichang Wang (Tsinghua University) Title: Stochastic Process and Noncommutative Geometry Abstract: We explain a stochastic approach to topological field theory and present a case study of […]
Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 4:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.
Member Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio Title: Smooth projective fibrations over the projective line and their sections Abstract: Suppose $f\colon X\to \mathbf{CP}^1$ is a smooth projective fibration, is it then true that $f$ has […]
Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Juven Wang (LIMS, Royal Institution) Title: Topological to Gravitational Leptogenesis, via Ultra Unification Abstract: We propose a new mechanism for leptogenesis, named Topological […]
Colloquium Speaker: Nick Trefethen, Harvard University Title: Rational approximation and the AAA algorithm Approximation by rational functions used to be mainly a theoretical subject, but with the introduction of the […]
General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Gilbert Weinstein, Ariel University Title: The mass angular momentum inequality Abstract: We show that either there is a counterexample to black hole uniqueness, in the form […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Sunghyuk Park, Harvard CMSA Title: Blob homology