• Anomalies, topological insulators and Kaehler-Dirac fermions

    Virtual

    Abstract: Motivated by a puzzle arising from recent work on staggered lattice fermions we introduce Kaehler-Dirac fermions and describe their connection both to Dirac fermions and staggered fermions. We show that they […]

  • Machine Learning 30 STEM Courses in 12 Departments

    https://youtu.be/QaOZCa8SFvA Speaker: Iddo Drori, MIT EE&CS and Columbia School of Engineering Title: Machine Learning 30 STEM Courses in 12 Departments Abstract: We automatically solve, explain, and generate university-level course problems from […]

  • The Einstein-flow on manifolds of negative curvature

    Abstract: We consider the Cauchy problem for the Einstein equations for cosmological spacetimes, i.e. spacetimes with compact spatial hypersurfaces. Various classes of those dynamical spacetimes have been constructed and analyzed using […]

  • 2-categorical 3d mirror symmetry

    Virtual

    Abstract: It is by now well-known that mirror symmetry may be expressed as an equivalence between categories associated to dual Kahler manifolds. Following a proposal of Teleman, we inaugurate a program […]

  • Summing Over Bordisms In 2d TQFT

    Virtual

    Abstract: Some recent work in the quantum gravity literature has considered what happens when the amplitudes of a TQFT are summed over the bordisms between fixed in-going and out-going boundaries. We […]

  •  A Hike through the Swampland

    https://youtu.be/9Mq9Jvmo3ic Abstract: The Swampland program aims at uncovering the universal implications of quantum gravity at low-energy physics. I will review the basic ideas of the Swampland program, formal and phenomenological implications, […]

  • On optimization and generalization in deep learning

    Abstract: Deep neural networks have achieved significant empirical success in many fields, including the fields of computer vision and natural language processing. Along with its empirical success, deep learning has been theoretically shown to be […]

  • Moduli Space of Metric SUSY Graphs

    Virtual

    Member Seminar Speaker: Yingying Wu Title: Moduli Space of Metric SUSY Graphs Abstract: SUSY curves are algebraic curves with additional supersymmetric or supergeometric structures. In this talk, I will present […]