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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180407T170000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20230717T175058Z
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SUMMARY:Simons Collaboration Workshop\, April 5-7\, 2018
DESCRIPTION:The CMSA will be hosting a three-day Simons Collaboration Workshop on Homological Mirror Symmetry and Hodge Theory on April 5-7\, 2018. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA\, located at 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA. \nPlease click here to register for this event.  We have space for up to 30 registrants on a first come\, first serve basis. \nWe may be able to provide some financial support for grad students and postdocs interested in this event.  If you are interested in funding\, please send a letter of support from your mentor to Hansol Hong. \nConfirmed Speakers: \n\nJacob Bourjaily (Niels Bohr Institute)\nMandy Cheung (Havard University)\nTristan Collins (Harvard University)\nYoosik Kim (Boston University)\nYu-Shen Lin (Harvard University)\nCheuk-Yu Mak (Cambridge University)\nYu Pan (MIT)\nMauricio Romo (Tsinghua University)\nShu-Heng Shao (IAS)\nZack Sylvan (Columbia University)\nDmitry Vaintrob (IAS)
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/simons-collaboration-workshop-april-5-7-2018/
LOCATION:CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T163000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T064751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240515T174223Z
UID:10002129-1522859400-1522859400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Black Holes and Naked Singularities
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ramesh Narayan\, Department of Astronomy\, Harvard University \nTitle: Black Holes and Naked Singularities \nAbstract: Black Hole solutions in General Relativity contain Event Horizons and Singularities. Astrophysicists have discovered two populations of black hole candidates in the Universe: stellar-mass objects with masses in the range 5 to 30 solar masses\, and supermassive objects with masses in the range million to several billion solar masses. There is considerable evidence that these objects have Event Horizons. It thus appears that astronomical black hole candidates are true Black Holes. Direct evidence for Singularities is much harder to obtain since\, at least in the case of Black Holes\, the Singularities are hidden inside the Event Horizon. However\, General Relativity also permits Naked Singularities which are visible to external observers. Toy Naked Singularity models have been constructed\, and some observational features of accretion flows in these spacetimes have been worked out.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/4-4-2018-colloquium/
LOCATION:CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T180000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20230717T174857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260218T203218Z
UID:10000076-1522686600-1522778400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott\, April 2-3
DESCRIPTION:On April 2-3\, the CMSA will be hosting two lectures by Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter Institute) on “Geometry and Combinatorics in Particle Interactions.”  This will be the first of the new annual Bott Math Science Lecture Series hosted by the CMSA. \nThe lectures will take place from 4:30-5:30pm in Science Center\, Hall D. \n \n \n  \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/math-science-lectures-in-honor-of-raoul-bott-april-2-3/
LOCATION:Harvard Science Center\, 1 Oxford Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Event,Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott,Special Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T133000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T094751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T094751Z
UID:10002364-1522670400-1522675800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:4-2-2018 Mathematical Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/4-2-2018-mathematical-physics-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180328T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180328T173000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T064501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240515T174531Z
UID:10002125-1522254600-1522258200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:A Mean Field View of the Landscape of Two-Layers Neural Networks
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrea Montanari (Stanford) \nTitle: A Mean Field View of the Landscape of Two-Layers Neural Networks \nAbstract: Multi-layer neural networks are among the most powerful models in machine learning and yet\, the fundamental reasons for this success defy mathematical understanding. Learning a neural network requires to optimize a highly non-convex and high-dimensional objective (risk function)\, a problem which is usually attacked using stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Does SGD converge to a global optimum of the risk or only to a local optimum? In the first case\, does this happen because local minima are absent\, or because SGD somehow avoids them? In the second\, why do local minima reached by SGD have good generalization properties? We consider a simple case\, namely two-layers neural networks\, and prove that –in a suitable scaling limit– the SGD dynamics is captured by a certain non-linear partial differential equation. We then consider several specific examples\, and show how the asymptotic description can be used to prove convergence of SGD to network with nearly-ideal generalization error. This description allows to ‘average-out’ some of the complexities of the landscape of neural networks\, and can be used to capture some important variants of SGD as well. [Based on joint work with Song Mei and Phan-Minh Nguyen]
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/3-28-2018-colloquium/
LOCATION:CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-Colloquium-032818-e1521831836462-1.png
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180326T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180326T133000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T094518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T094518Z
UID:10002362-1522065600-1522071000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:3-26-2018 Math Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/3-26-2018-math-physics-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180324T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180326T181500
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20230717T174646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250304T212149Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Geometry\, Imaging\, and Computing
DESCRIPTION:On March 24-26\, The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a workshop on Geometry\, Imaging\, and Computing\, based off  the journal of the same name. The workshop will take place in CMSA building\, G10. \nThe organizing committee consists of Yang Wang (HKUST)\, Ronald Lui (CUHK)\, David Gu (Stony Brook)\, and Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard). \nConfirmed Speakers: \n\nJianfeng Cai (HKUST)\nShikui Chen (Stony Brook)\nJerome Darbon (Brown University)\nLaurent Demanet (MIT)\nDavid Gu (Stony Brook)\nMonica Hurdal (Florida State University)\nRongjie Lai (RPI)\nYue Lu (Harvard)\nRonald Lok Ming Lui (CUHK)\nLakshminarayanan Mahadevan (Harvard)\nEric Miller (Tufts)\nAshley Prater  (AFOSR)\nLixin Shen (Syracuse University)\nAllen Tannenbaum (Stony Brook)\nGuowei Wei (Michigan State)\nStephen Wong (Houston Methodist)\nJun Zhang (University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor)\nSong Zhang (Purdue University)\nHongkai Zhao (University of California\, Irvine)
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/workshop-on-geometry-imaging-and-computing/
LOCATION:CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T133000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T094312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T094312Z
UID:10002358-1521460800-1521466200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:3/19/2018 Mathematical Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/3-19-2018-mathematical-physics-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180315T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180315T160000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T100139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T100209Z
UID:10002381-1521126000-1521129600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Dmytro Shklyrov HMS Focused Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/dmytro-shklyrov-hms-focused-lecture-series/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Seminars
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T173000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T063843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240515T175119Z
UID:10002121-1520440200-1520443800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Harmonic functions and the chromatic polynomial
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Richard Kenyon\, Brown \nTitle: Harmonic functions and the chromatic polynomial
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/2-7-2018-colloquium/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-Colloquium-030718-e1520356183643.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T152700
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T152700
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T100816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T100816Z
UID:10002395-1520263620-1520263620@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:3-5-2018 Mathematical Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/3-5-2018-mathematical-physics-seminar/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180302T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180302T120000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T095700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T095700Z
UID:10002372-1519988400-1519992000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:3-2-2018 Mirror Symmetry Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/3-2-2018-mirror-symmetry-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Seminars
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T160000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T100343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T100343Z
UID:10002386-1519743600-1519747200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:2-27-2018 HMS Lecture
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/2-27-2018-hms-lecture/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Seminars
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180226T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180226T173000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T063608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240515T175404Z
UID:10002119-1519662600-1519666200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Computer-assisted analysis of singularity formation of a regularized 3D Euler equation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tom Hou\, Caltech \nTitle: Computer-assisted analysis of singularity formation of a regularized 3D Euler equation \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/2-26-2018-colloquium/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-Colloquium-022618-e1519319166314.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180226T154200
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180226T154200
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T100602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T100602Z
UID:10002390-1519659720-1519659720@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:2-26-2018 Mathematical Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/2-26-2018-mathematical-physics-seminar/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T153000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T101226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T101226Z
UID:10002401-1519399800-1519399800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:2-23-2018 RM & PT Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/2-23-2018-rm-pt-seminar/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T110000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T100016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T100016Z
UID:10002377-1519380000-1519383600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:2-23-2018 Mirror Symmetry Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/2-23-2018-mirror-symmetry-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Seminars
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T173000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T063335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240515T175648Z
UID:10002115-1519230600-1519234200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Essential concepts of Causal inference—a remarkable history
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Don Rubin (Harvard Statistics) \nTitle: Essential concepts of Causal inference—a remarkable history \nAbstract: I believe that a deep understanding of cause and effect\, and how to estimate causal effects from data\, complete with the associated mathematical notation and expressions\, only evolved in the twentieth century.  The crucial idea of randomized experiments was apparently first proposed in 1925 in the context of agricultural field trails but quickly moved to be applied also in studies of animal breeding and then in industrial manufacturing.  The conceptual understanding seemed to be tied to ideas that were developing in quantum mechanics.  The key ideas of randomized experiments evidently were not applied to studies of human beings until the 1950s\, when such experiments began to be used in controlled medical trials\, and then in social science — in education and economics.  Humans are more complex than plants and animals\, however\, and with such trials came the attendant complexities of non-compliance with assigned treatment and the occurrence of “hawthorne” and placebo effects.  The formal application of the insights from earlier simpler experimental settings to more complex ones dealing with people\, started in the 1970s and continue to this day\, and include the bridging of classical mathematical ideas of experimentation\, including fractional replication and geometrical formulations from the early twentieth century\, with modern ideas that rely on powerful computing to implement aspects of design and analysis. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/2-21-2018-colloquium/
LOCATION:CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T150900
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T150900
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T101421Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T101421Z
UID:10002404-1518793740-1518793740@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:2-16-2018 RM & PT Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/2-16-2018-rm-pt-seminar/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T110000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T101018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T101018Z
UID:10002397-1518778800-1518778800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:2-16-2018 Mirror Symmetry Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/2-16-2018-mirror-symmetry-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Seminars
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T093000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20230801T174827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231221T104855Z
UID:10000045-1518773400-1518773400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:02-16-2018 Special Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/02-16-2018-special-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180214T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180214T173000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T063118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240515T180124Z
UID:10002113-1518625800-1518629400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:A new program on quantum subgroups
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhengwei Liu (Harvard Physics) \nTitle: A new program on quantum subgroups \nAbstract: Quantum subgroups have been studied since the 1980s. The A\, D\, E classification of subgroups of quantum SU(2) is a quantum analogue of the McKay correspondence. It turns out to be related to various areas in mathematics and physics. Inspired by the quantum McKay correspondence\, we introduce a new program that our group at Harvard is developing. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/02-14-2018-colloqium/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-Colloquium-021418-e1518126484875.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180209T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180209T110000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T102158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T102158Z
UID:10002416-1518174000-1518174000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:02-09-2018 Mirror Symmetry Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/02-09-2018-mirror-symmetry-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Seminars
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180208T180000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T062806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240515T181311Z
UID:10002110-1518109200-1518112800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Sequences: random\, structured or something in between
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fan Chung (University of California\, San Diego) \nTitle: Sequences: random\, structured or something in between \nAbstract: There are many fundamental problems concerning sequences that arise in many areas of mathematics and computation. Typical problems include finding or avoiding patterns; testing or validating various ‘random-like’ behavior; analyzing or comparing different statistics\, etc. In this talk\, we will examine various notions of regularity or irregularity for sequences and mention numerous open problems. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/02-08-2018-colloquium/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-Colloquium-020818-e1518025233926.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20240213T102420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T102420Z
UID:10002419-1517832000-1517835600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:1-5-2018 Mathematical Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/1-5-2018-mathematical-physics-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180205T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180209T170000
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
CREATED:20230717T174149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250304T211916Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics
DESCRIPTION:The workshop on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics will take place February 5-9\, 2018 at the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications\, located at 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA. \nExtremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics are two of the most central branches of modern combinatorial theory. Extremal Combinatorics deals with problems of determining or estimating the maximum or minimum possible cardinality of a collection of finite objects satisfying certain requirements. Such problems are often related to other areas including Computer Science\, Information Theory\, Number Theory and Geometry. This branch of Combinatorics has developed spectacularly over the last few decades. Probabilistic Combinatorics can be described informally as a (very successful) hybrid between Combinatorics and Probability\, whose main object of study is probability distributions on discrete structures. \nThere are many points of interaction between these fields. There are deep similarities in methodology. Both subjects are mostly asymptotic in nature. Quite a few important results from Extremal Combinatorics have been proven applying probabilistic methods\, and vice versa. Such emerging subjects as Extremal Problems in Random Graphs or the theory of graph limits stand explicitly at the intersection of the two fields and indicate their natural symbiosis. \nThe symposia will focus on the interactions between the above areas. These topics include Extremal Problems for Graphs and Set Systems\, Ramsey Theory\, Combinatorial Number Theory\, Combinatorial Geometry\, Random Graphs\, Probabilistic Methods and Graph Limits. \nParticipation: The workshop is open to participation by all interested researchers\, subject to capacity. \nConfirmed participants include: \n\nJozsef Balogh\, University of Illinois\, Urbana\nFan Chung (Graham)\, University of California\, San Diego\nAsaf Ferber\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\nJacob Fox\, Stanford Unviersity\nDavid Gamarnik\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\nPenny Haxell\, University of Waterloo\nHao Huang\, Emory University\nJeff Kahn\, Rutgers University\nPeter Keevash\, Oxford University\nMichael Krivelevich\, Tel Aviv University\nDaniela Kühn\, University of Birmingham\nShoham Letzer\, ITS Zürich\nShachar Lovett\, University of California\, San Diego\nEyal Lubetzky\, Courant Institute\nRob Morris\, IMPA\nBhargav Narayanan\, Rutgers University\nDeryk Osthus\, University of Birmingham\nJanos Pach\, NYU\nYuval Peres\, Microsoft Redmond\nAlexey Pokryovskyi\, ETH Zürich\nWojciech Samotij\, Tel Aviv University\nLisa Sauermann\, Stanford University\nMathias Schacht\, University of Hamburg\nAlexander Scott\, University of Oxford\nAsaf Shapira\, Tel Aviv University\nJozef Skokan\, London School of Economics\nJoel Spencer\, New York University\nAngelika Steger\, ETH Zurich\nJacques Verstraete\, University of California\, San Diego\nYufei Zhao\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\nDavid Zuckerman\, University of Texas at Austin\n\nCo-organizers of this workshop include Benny Sudakov and David Conlon.  More details about this event\, including participants\, will be updated soon.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/workshop-on-probabilistic-and-extremal-combinatorics/
LOCATION:CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Workshop
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SUMMARY:2-2-2018 Mirror Symmetry Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/2-2-2018-mirror-symmetry-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180129T144200
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180129T144200
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SUMMARY:1-29-2018 Mathematical Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/1-29-2018-mathematical-physics-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180126T143700
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180126T143700
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
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SUMMARY:01-26-2018 Mirror Symmetry Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/01-26-2018-mirror-symmetry-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180125T142100
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180125T142100
DTSTAMP:20260523T193553
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SUMMARY:Quantum Cohomology\, Nakajima Varieties and Quantum groups
DESCRIPTION:During the Spring 2018 Semester Artan Sheshmani (QGM/CMSA) will be teaching a CMSA special lecture series on Quantum Cohomology\, Nakajima Vareties and Quantum groups. The lectures will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning January 25th\, from 1:00 to 3:00pm in room G10\, CMSA Building. \nYou can watch Prof. Sheshmani describe the series here. \nThe Syllabus is as follows: \n\n\n\nDate………..\nTopic\nVideo/Audio\n\n\n1-25-2018\nGromov-Witten invariants  \nDefinition\, examples via algebraic geometry I\nVideo / Audio / Combined  \n\n*due to technical difficulties the audio and video are split for this lecture.\n\n\n 2-01-2018\nGromov-Witten invariants  \nVirtual Fundamental Class I (definition)\nVideo / Audio / Combined  \n\n*due to technical difficulties the audio and video are split for this lecture\n\n\n2-13-2018\nGromov-Witten invariants  \nVirtual Fundamental Class II (computation in some cases)\n\n\n\n 2-15-2018\nComputing GW invariants  \nThree level GW classes \nGenus zero invariants of the projective plane\n\n\n\n 2-20-2018\nQuantum Cohomology  \nSmall Quantum Cohomology (Definition and Properties) I\n\n\n\n2-22-2018\nQuantum Cohomology  \nSmall Quantum Cohomology (Definition and Properties) II\n\n\n\n2-27-2018\nQuantum Cohomology  \nBig Quantum Cohomology I\n\n\n\n 3-1-2018\nQuantum Cohomology  \nBig Quantum Cohomology II \nGW potential \nWDVV equation\n\n\n\n3-6-2018\nGW invariants via Quantum Cohomology  \nThe Quintic threefold case \nThe P^2 case\n\n\n\n\nGW invariants via Quantum Cohomology  \nDubrovin (quantum) connection\n\n\n\n\nNakajima varieties  \n-Algebraic and symplectic reduction\n\n\n\n\nNakajima varieties  \nQuasi maps to Nakajima varieties\n\n\n\n\nQuantum cohomology of Nakajima varieties  \nSmall Quantum Cohomology of Hilb^n (C2) I\n\n\n\n\nQuantum cohomology of Nakajima varieties  \nSmall Quantum Cohomology of Hilb^n (C2) II\n\n\n\n\nQuantum cohomology of Nakajima varieties  \nSmall Quantum Cohomology of Hilb^n (C2) III\n\n\n\n\nQuantum cohomology of Nakajima varieties  \nBig Quantum Cohomology of Hilb^n (C2) I\n \n\n\n\nQuantum cohomology of Nakajima varieties  \nBig Quantum Cohomology of Hilb^n (C2) II\n\n\n\n\nQuantum cohomology of Nakajima varieties  \nBig Quantum Cohomology of Hilb^n (C2) III\n\n\n\n\nQuantum cohomology of Nakajima varieties  \nBig Quantum Cohomology of Hilb^n (C2) IV\n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/quantum-cohomology-nakajima-varieties-and-quantum-groups/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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