Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Amin Doostmohammadi, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen Title: Interacting Active Matter Abstract: I will focus on the interaction between different active matter systems. In particular, I […]
Andrew Strominger will give the Third Annual Yip Lecture on February 2, 2023. Time: 7:00-8:00 pm ET Location: Harvard Science Center Hall A Title: Black Holes: The Most Mysterious […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Han Yan (Rice U) Title: Fracton orders in hyperbolic space and its excitations with fractal mobility Abstract: Unlike ordinary topological quantum phases, fracton orders are intimately […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Chuck Doran Title: Motivic Geometry of Two-Loop Feynman Integrals Abstract: We study the geometry and Hodge theory of the cubic hypersurfaces attached to two-loop Feynman integrals for generic […]
Speaker: David Gamarnik (MIT) Title: From spin glasses to Boolean circuits lower bounds. Algorithmic barriers from the overlap gap property Abstract: Many decision and optimization problems over random structures exhibit an apparent gap […]
Probability Seminar Speaker: Roland Bauerschmidt (Cambridge) Title: Bakry-Emery theory and renormalisation Abstract: I will discuss an approach to log-Sobolev inequalities that combines the Bakry-Emery theory with renormalisation and present several […]
https://youtu.be/FyJ6TieNQBc General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Maciej Zworski, UC Berkeley Title: Quasinormal modes and Ruelle resonances: mathematician's perspective Abstract: Quasinormal modes of gravitational waves and Ruelle resonances in hyperbolic classical dynamics […]
The CMSA hosted a series of three 90-minute lectures on the subject of machine learning for protein folding. Thursday Feb. 9, Thursday Feb. 16, & Thursday March 9, 2023, 3:30-5:00 […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Ho Tat Lam (MIT) Title: Non-invertible Symmetry Enforced Gaplessness Abstract: Quantum systems in 3+1-dimensions that are invariant under gauging a one-form symmetry enjoy novel non-invertible duality symmetries encoded […]
Swampland Seminar Speaker: Jake McNamara (Caltech) Title: Parity and Cobordism Abstract: The swampland cobordism conjecture provides a convenient way to discuss conserved charges associated with the topology of spacetime. However, much of […]
Speaker: Tristan Collins, MIT Title: Complete Calabi-Yau metrics: Recent progress and open problems Abstract: Complete Calabi-Yau metrics are fundamental objects in Kahler geometry arising as singularity models or "bubbles" in […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Farzan Vafa Title: Dynamics of active nematic defects on cones Abstract: In the first part of the talk, we investigate the ground-state configurations of two-dimensional liquid crystals with […]