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  • 02CMSA Colloquium 04.12.2023

    Unexpected Uses of Neural Networks: Field Theory and Metric Flows  

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

    Speaker: James Halverson (Northeastern University)   Title: Unexpected Uses of Neural Networks: Field Theory and Metric Flows Abstract:  We are now quite used to the idea that deep neural networks may be trained in a variety of ways to tackle cutting-edge problems in physics and mathematics, sometimes leading to rigorous results. In this talk, however, I will argue […]

  • CMSA Probability Seminar 04.12.23

    Large deviations of Selberg’s central limit theorem

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

    Probability Seminar Speaker: Emma Bailey (CUNY) Title: Large deviations of Selberg’s central limit theorem Abstract: Selberg’s CLT concerns the typical behaviour of the Riemann zeta function and shows that the random variable $\Re \log \zeta(1/2 + i t)$, for a uniformly drawn $t$, behaves as a Gaussian random variable with a particular variance.  It is […]

  • Resolving the photon ring

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

    https://youtu.be/KCo0iWFox1s General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Shahar Hadar (University of Haifa) Title: Resolving the photon ring Abstract: In the past few years, the Event Horizon Telescope has released the first close-up interferometric images of two supermassive black holes, M87* and SgrA*. It is believed that within these images is embedded a fine, yet-unresolved brightness enhancement called the photon ring. […]

  • Control of actin cable length by decelerated growth and network geometry

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

    Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Shane McInally, Brandeis Title: Control of actin cable length by decelerated growth and network geometry Abstract: The sizes of many subcellular structures are coordinated with cell size to ensure that these structures meet the functional demands of the cell. In eukaryotic cells, these subcellular structures are often membrane-bound organelles, whose volume is […]

  • CMSA QMMP 04.14.23

    Fault-tolerant quantum computation via topological order on fractals and emergent symmetries

    Hybrid - G10

    Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Guanyu Zhu (IBM Quantum, T. J. Watson Research Center) Title: Fault-tolerant quantum computation via topological order on fractals and emergent symmetries Abstract: Topological quantum error correcting codes in integer spatial dimensions have been widely studied in the field of quantum information. A remaining major challenge is to reduce the space-time overhead […]

  • Recent progress on coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills dynamics

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal Title: Recent progress on coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills dynamics Abstract: I will discuss my recent work with prof. S.T. Yau on Einstein-Yang-Mills theory. I’ll discuss the main ideas behind the stability of the Minkowski and Milne space time under coupled gauge-gravity perturbations. Construction of the gauge invariant energies that control the suitable […]

  • CMSA Probability Seminar 04.19.23

    Diagonalizing Transition Matrices of Card Shuffles

    Science Center 232 Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138

    Probability Seminar Speaker: Evita Nestoridi (Stonybrook) Title: Diagonalizing Transition Matrices of Card Shuffles Abstract: In their seminal work, Diaconis and Shahshahani used representation theory of the symmetric group to diagonalize the transition matrix of random transpositions. More recently, Dieker and Saliola introduced another technique to diagonalize the random-to-random card shuffle. In this talk we will […]

  • CMSA Colloquium 04.20.2023

    Black hole collider physics

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

    Speaker: Julio Parra Martinez, Caltech Title: Black hole collider physics Abstract: Despite more than a century since the development of Einstein’s theory, the general relativistic two-body problem remains unsolved. A precise description of its solution is now essential, as it is necessary for understanding the strong-gravity dynamics of compact binaries observed at LIGO/VIRGO/KAGRA and in […]

  • CMSA QMMP 04.21.23 (1)

    A model of the cuprates: from the pseudogap metal to d-wave superconductivity and charge order

    Hybrid - G10

    Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Prof. Subir Sachdev (Harvard) Title: A model of the cuprates: from the pseudogap metal to d-wave superconductivity and charge order Abstract: Soon after the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates, Anderson proposed a connection to quantum spin liquids. But observations since then have shown that the low-temperature phase diagram is […]

  • The Tameness of Quantum Field Theories 

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    Swampland Seminar Speaker: Thomas Grimm (Utrecht U.) Title: The Tameness of Quantum Field Theories Abstract: Tameness is a generalized notion of finiteness that is restricting the geometric complexity of sets and functions. The underlying mathematical foundation lies in tame geometry, which is built from o-minimal structures introduced in mathematical logic. In this talk I formalize the connection between quantum field theories and […]

  • CMSA GR Seminar 04.24.23 (1)

    Recent advances in scalar curvature and positive mass theorems

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

    https://youtu.be/kGpZ0nRcZRU General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Tin Yau Tsang, University of California Irvine Title: Recent advances in scalar curvature and positive mass theorems Abstract:  First, we have a review of classical tools for studying scalar curvature and positive mass theorem. Then we are going to discuss some advances and new perspectives on these tools which lead […]

  • On complete Calabi-Yau metrics and some related Monge-Ampere equations

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Freid Tong Title: On complete Calabi-Yau metrics and some related Monge-Ampere equations Abstract: We will give a basic introduction to constructions for complete Calabi-Yau metrics. A systematic approach to construct such metrics using PDE methods was proposed in the work of Tian-Yau in the 90s and have attracted a lot of attention […]