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3-21-2017 Social Science Applications Forum
2017-03-21 12:28 (America/New_York)

3-20-2017 Mathematical Physics Seminar
2017-03-20 12:30

3-10-2017 Special Lecture Series
2017-03-10 12:27

3-8-2017 CMSA Special Seminar
2017-03-08 12:25

3-8-2017 Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminar
2017-03-08 12:21

3-8-2017 CMSA Special Lecture Series
2017-03-08 12:16

Special Lecture Series on Donaldson-Thomas and Gromov-Witten Theories
2017-03-08 12:11 - 2017-04-19 12:11 | CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
From March 8 to April 19, the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a special lecture series on Donaldson-Thomas and Gromov-Witten Theories. Artan Sheshmani (QGM Aarhus and CMSA Harvard) will give eight talks on the topic on Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:00-10:30 am, which will be recorded and promptly available on CMSA’s Youtube Channel.

3-7-2017 Social Science Applications Forum
2017-03-07 12:15

3-6-2017 Mathematical Physics Seminar
2017-03-06 12:24

3-1-2017 Random Matrix & Probability Seminar
2017-03-01 12:11

2-27-2017 Mathematical Physics Seminar
2017-02-27 12:14

02-22-2017 Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminar
2017-02-22 11:58

02-21-2017 Social Science Applications Forum
2017-02-21 11:59

Geometry of 3-manifolds and Complex Chern-Simons Theory
2017-02-15 16:30 - 17:30 | CMSA Room G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Masahito Yamazaki (IMPU)
Title: Geometry of 3-manifolds and Complex Chern-Simons Theory
Abstract: The geometry of 3-manifolds has been a fascinating subject in mathematics. In this talk I discuss a “quantization” of 3-manifold geometry, in the language of complex Chern-Simons theory. This Chern-Simons theory in turn is related to the physics of 3-dimensional supersymmetric field theories through the so-called 3d/3d correspondence, whose origin can be traced back to a mysterious theory on the M5-branes. Along the way I will also comment on the connection with a number of related topics, such as knot theory, hyperbolic geometry, quantum dilogarithm and cluster algebras.

Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminar (2016-2017)
2017-02-15 15:00 - 2017-12-14 16:00 | CMSA Room G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
The random matrix and probability theory will be every Wednesday from 3pm-4pm in CMSA Building, 20 Garden Street, Room G10.

02-15-2017 Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminar
2017-02-15 11:55

02-14-2017 Social Science Applications Forum
2017-02-14 11:42

02-13-2017, Mathematical Physics Seminar
2017-02-13 11:34

02-09-2017 CMSA Special Seminar
2017-02-09 11:35

02-07-2017 Social Sciences Applications Forum
2017-02-07 11:32

02-06-2017 Mathematical Physics Seminar
2017-02-06 11:33

02-03-2017 CMSA Members’ Seminar
2017-02-03 11:37
Hansol Hong, Harvard
Title: Homological Mirror Functors
Abstract: I will first give a brief introduction to mirror symmetry, which intertwines symplectic geometry and complex geometry of a pair of Kahler manifolds, and explain mirror construction using formal deformation of a Lagrangian submanifold. We will see that counting of holomorphic discs bounding Lagrangian naturally gives rise to a mirror space (Landau-Ginzburg model) and a functor from Fukaya category to its mirror matrix factorization category. I will mainly focus on one specific example to give a concrete description of the construction.

01-30-2017 Mathematical Physics Seminar
2017-01-30 11:30

01-25-2017 Colloquium
2017-01-13 13:54

01-12-2017 CMSA Special Seminar
2017-01-12 11:25

01-11-2017 CMSA Special Seminar
2017-01-11 11:24

Working Conference on Applications of Random Matrix Theory to Data Analysis, January 9-13, 2017
2017-01-09 09:00 - 2017-01-13 17:00 | CMSA 20 Garden Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 United States
The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a working Conference on Applications of Random Matrix Theory to Data Analysis, January 9-13, 2017. The conference will be hosted in Room G10 of the CMSA Building located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Participants:
Gerard Ben Arous, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Alex Bloemendal, Broad Institute
Arup Chakraburty, MIT

Zhou Fan, Stanford University
Alpha Lee, Harvard University
Matthew R. McKay, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
David R. Nelson, Harvard University
Nick Patterson, Broad Institute
Marc Potters, Capital Fund management

Yasser Roudi, IAS
Tom Trogdon, UC Irvine
Organizers:

Michael Brenner, Lucy Colwell, Govind Menon, Horng-Tzer Yau
Please click Program for a downloadable schedule with talk abstracts.

Schedule:

January 9 – Day 1

9:30am – 10:00am
Breakfast & Opening remarks

10:00am – 11:00am
Marc Potters, “Eigenvector overlaps and the estimation of large noisy matrices”

11:00am – 12:00pm
Yasser Roudi

12:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch

2:00pm
Afternoon Discussion

January 10 – Day 2

8:30am – 9:00am
Breakfast

9:00am – 10:00am
Arup Chakraburty, “The mathematical analyses and biophysical reasons underlying why the prevalence of HIV strains and their relative fitness are simply correlated, and pose the challenge of building a general theory that encompasses other viruses where this is not true.”

10:00am – 11:00am
Tom Trogdon, “On the average behavior of numerical algorithms”

11:00am – 12:00pm
David R. Nelson, “Non-Hermitian Localization in Neural Networks”

12:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch

2:00pm
Afternoon Discussion

January 11 – Day 3

8:30am – 9:00am
Breakfast

9:00am – 10:00am
Nick Patterson

10:00am – 11:00am
Lucy Colwell

11:00am – 12:00pm
Alpha Lee

12:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch

2:00pm-4:00pm
Afternoon Discussion

4:00pm
Gerard Ben Arous (Public Talk), “Complexity of random functions of many variables: from geometry to statistical physics and deep learning algorithms“

January 12 – Day 4

8:30am – 9:00am
Breakfast

9:00am – 10:00am
Govind Menon

10:00am – 11:00am
Alex Bloemendal

11:00am – 12:00pm
Zhou Fan, “Free probability, random matrices, and statistics”

12:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch

2:00pm
Afternoon Discussion

January 13 – Day 5

8:30am – 9:00am
Breakfast

9:00am – 12:00pm
Free for Working

12:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch

2:00pm
Free for Working

* This event is sponsored by CMSA Harvard University.

Workshop on Discrete and Topological Models for Effective Field Theories, January 9-13, 2017
2017-01-09 09:00 - 2017-01-13 17:00 | CMSA Room G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a Workshop on “Discrete and Topological Models for Effective Field Theories,” January 9-13, 2017. The workshop will be hosted in G02 of the CMSA Building located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Titles, abstracts and schedule will be provided nearer to the event.
Participants:
Dan Freed, UT Austin
Anton Kapustin, California Institute of Technology
Alexei Y. Kitaev, California Institute of Technology
Greg Moore, Rutgers University

Constantin Teleman, University of Oxford

Organizers:

Mike Hopkins, Shing-Tung Yau
* This event is sponsored by CMSA Harvard University.

12-14-2016 Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminar
2016-12-14 11:22

12-08-2016 Homological Mirror Symmetry Seminar
2016-12-08 11:21
