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  • A Plane Defect in the 3d O(N) Model

    Hybrid

    Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Abijith Krishnan (MIT) Title: A Plane Defect in the 3d O(N) Model Abstract: It was recently found that the classical 3d O(N) model in the semi-infinite geometry […]

  • Quantum information: the interplay of mathematics and physics

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Kaifeng Bu (Harvard University) Title: Quantum information: the interplay of mathematics and physics Abstract: I will provide an introduction to quantum information, which points to a new […]

  • CM-minimizers and standard models of Fano fibrations over curves

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Maksym Fedorchuk (Boston College) Title: CM-minimizers and standard models of Fano fibrations over curves Abstract: A recent achievement in K-stability of Fano varieties […]

  • The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect at ν=5/2: Past, Recent, and Future

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/2CbIDgFFzRY Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker:  Ken K. W. Ma (Northeastern University) Title: The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect at ν=5/2: Past, Recent, and Future Abstract: The discovery of fractional quantum Hall […]

  • Analysis of ALH* gravitational instantons

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Xuwen Zhu (Northeastern) Title: Analysis of ALH* gravitational instantons Abstract: Gravitational instantons are non-compact Calabi-Yau metrics with L^2 bounded curvature and are categorized into six types. We will discuss one […]

  • The Feynman propagator and self-adjointness

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    https://youtu.be/xTnSasVv4_0 General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Andras Vasy (Stanford) Title: The Feynman propagator and self-adjointness Abstract: In this talk I will discuss the Feynman and anti-Feynman inverses for wave operators on certain Lorentzian manifolds; […]

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 12/5/2023

    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Mike Douglas (Harvard CMSA) and Anurag Anshu (Harvard Computer Science) Topics: Mike Douglas: What are scaling laws in deep learning? Anurag Anshu: What's the difference […]

  • Active structures and flows in living cells

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Michael Shelley (Flatiron) Title: Active structures and flows in living cells Abstract: Flows in the fluidic interior of living cells can serve biological function or act as […]

  • Open Problems in Physics and Novel Solutions from Math

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar Speaker: Juven Wang Title: Open Problems in Physics and Novel Solutions from Math   Abstract: (1) How do neutrinos obtain tiny mass and oscillate between e, \mu, \tau three […]

  • M-theory on nodal Calabi-Yau 3-folds and torsion refined GV-invariants

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Thorsten Schimannek (Utrecht University) Title: M-theory on nodal Calabi-Yau 3-folds and torsion refined GV-invariants Abstract: The physics of M-theory and Type IIA strings […]

  • Homology, higher derived limits, and set theory

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Colloquium Speaker: Justin Moore (Cornell University) Title: Homology, higher derived limits, and set theory Abstract: Singular homology has a number of well-known defects when used to study spaces such as […]