• Modularity of mirror families of log Calabi–Yau surfaces

    Virtual

    Abstract:   In “Mirror symmetry for log Calabi–Yau surfaces I,” given a smooth log Calabi–Yau surface pair (Y,D), Gross–Hacking–Keel constructed its mirror family as the spectrum of an explicit algebra whose […]

  • Workshop on Nonlinear Algebra and Combinatorics from Physics

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    On April 27–29, 2022, the CMSA hosted a workshop on Nonlinear Algebra and Combinatorics. Organizers: Bernd Sturmfels (MPI Leipzig) and Lauren Williams (Harvard). In recent years, ideas from integrable systems […]

  • Aspects of 4d supersymmetric dynamics and geometry

    Virtual

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6_RbJS8CoM&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=14&t=2s Abstract: We will overview the program of geometrically engineering four dimensional supersymmetric QFTs as compactifications of six dimensional SCFTs. In particular we will discuss how strong coupling phenomena in four […]

  • Building active nematic and active polar liquids out of biological machines

    Virtual

    Speaker: Guillaume Duclos (Brandeis) Title: Building active nematic and active polar liquids out of biological machines Abstract: Active matter describes out-of-equilibrium materials composed of motile building blocks that convert free energy into mechanical work. The continuous input of energy at the […]

  • Machine Learning the Gravity Equation for International Trade

    Virtual

    Member Seminar Speaker: Sergiy Verstyuk Title: Machine Learning the Gravity Equation for International Trade Abstract: We will go through modern deep learning methods and existing approaches to their interpretation. Next, […]

  • General Relativity Workshop

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    General Relativity Workshop on scalar curvature, minimal surfaces, and initial data sets Dates: May 2–5, 2022 Location: Room G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 and via Zoom webinar. […]

  • The threshold for stacked triangulations

    Hybrid

    Abstract: Consider a bootstrap percolation process that starts with a set of `infected’ triangles $Y \subseteq \binom{}3$, and a new triangle f gets infected if there is a copy of […]

  • 2022 NSF FRG Workshop on Discrete Shapes

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    On May 6–8, 2022, the CMSA  hosted a second NSF FRG Workshop. This project brings together a community of researchers who develop theoretical and computational models to characterize shapes. Their […]