Colloquium Speaker: Alexei Borodin, MIT Title: Geometry of dimer models Abstract: Random dimer coverings of large planar graphs are known to exhibit unusual and visually apparent asymptotic phenomena that include formation of frozen regions and various phases in the […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speakers: Daniel Spiegel, Harvard Math Title: A Classifying Space for Phases of Matrix Product States Abstract: Alexei Kitaev has conjectured that there should be a […]
https://youtu.be/04E8r76TetQ New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Alex Damian, Harvard Title: Understanding Optimization in Deep Learning with Central Flows Abstract: Traditional theories of optimization cannot describe the dynamics of optimization in deep […]
Algebra Seminar Speaker: David Treumann (Boston College) Title: Profinite tensor powers Abstract: I'll discuss the problem of defining a tensor product of profinitely many copies of a vector space V, […]
https://youtu.be/vf3pIK9I9HI Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar Speaker: Xingyang Yu, Virginia Tech Title: Symmetries and Moduli Spaces: Baby Steps beyond Calabi-Yau Abstract: I will explore the interplay between symmetries and moduli spaces […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Lorenzo Riva Title: The Rozansky-Witten field theory in the functorial TQFT formalism Abstract: This will be a broad talk about the topic of my PhD thesis. We […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Dylan Galt, Harvard (60 minute talk) Title: What is a "nonlinear" near-symplectic form? Abstract: In this talk, I will explain how one might understand this question […]
https://youtu.be/qVoEUFvDqWk Millennium Prize Problems Lecture Date: October 15, 2025 Time: 5:00–6:00 pm Location: Harvard Science Center Hall D, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA Speaker: Sourav Chatterjee, Stanford University Title: Yang-Mills […]
Algebra Seminar Speaker: Linquan Ma (Purdue University) Title: Lech's inequality and stability of local rings Abstract: We explore Lech's inequality relating the colength and multiplicity of m-primary ideals in a Noetherian […]
Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar Speaker: Andy Neitzke, Yale Title: Abelianization of tau functions Abstract: The symplectic and hyperkahler geometry of moduli spaces of flat connections over Riemann surfaces is […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Blake Bordelon Title: DMFT, Two Point Correlations of Resolvents, and Applications to Machine Learning Theory Abstract: Machine learning algorithms evolve the parameters of a model in a high dimensional […]
Freedman Seminar Speaker: Michael Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: Sullivan's work on Lipschitz structures Abstract: I'll begin with an elementary, but now little known, piece of PL topology: engulfing. John Stalling […]