• Towards AI for mathematical modeling of complex biological systems: Machine-learned model reduction, spatial graph dynamics, and symbolic mathematics

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    https://youtu.be/t4xRwWxTzSg Speaker: Eric Mjolsness, Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics, UC Irvine Title: Towards AI for mathematical modeling of complex biological systems: Machine-learned model reduction, spatial graph dynamics, and symbolic mathematics Abstract: The complexity of biological systems (among others) makes demands on the complexity of the mathematical modeling enterprise that could be satisfied with mathematical […]

  • CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Classical and quantum integrable systems in enumerative geometry

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    Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University) Title: Classical and quantum integrable systems in enumerative geometry Abstract: For more than a quarter of a century, thanks to the ideas and questions originating in modern high-energy physics, there has been a very fruitful interplay between enumerative geometry and integrable system, both classical and quantum. While it is impossible to summarize […]

  • CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Log Calabi-Yau fibrations

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    Caucher Birkar (University of Cambridge) Title: Log Calabi-Yau fibrations Abstract: Fano and Calabi-Yau varieties play a fundamental role in algebraic geometry, differential geometry, arithmetic geometry, mathematical physics, etc. The notion of log Calabi-Yau fibration unifies Fano and Calabi-Yau varieties, their fibrations, as well as their local birational counterparts such as flips and singularities. Such fibrations can […]

  • Re-pricing avalanches

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    Speaker: Jose A. Scheinkman (Columbia) Title: Re-pricing avalanches Abstract: Monthly aggregate price changes exhibit chronic fluctuations but the aggregate shocks that drive these fluctuations are often elusive.  Macroeconomic models often add stochastic macro-level shocks such as technology shocks or monetary policy shocks to produce these aggregate fluctuations. In this paper, we show that a state-dependent  pricing model with a large but […]

  • Universes as Big Data, or Machine-Learning Mathematical Structures

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    https://youtu.be/zj_Xc2QG-vw Speaker: Yang-Hui He, Oxford University, City University of London and Nankai University Title: Universes as Big Data, or Machine-Learning Mathematical Structures Abstract: We review how historically the problem of string phenomenology lead theoretical physics first to algebraic/differetial geometry, and then to computational geometry, and now to data science and AI. With the concrete playground […]