Friday after Thanksgiving
Holiday: Friday after Thanksgiving The CMSA will be closed on Friday, November 25, 2022.
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Representation Theory, Calabi–Yau Manifolds, and Mirror Symmetry
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesVideos are available on the CMSA Youtube Playlist. On November 28 - Dec 1, 2022, the CMSA hosted a Workshop on Representation Theory, Calabi-Yau Manifolds, and Mirror Symmetry. Organizers: An Huang (Brandeis University) | Siu-Cheong Lau (Boston University) | Tsung-Ju Lee (CMSA, Harvard) | Andrew Linshaw (University of Denver) Scientific Advisor: Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard, Tsinghua) Location: […]
Lipschitz properties of transport maps under a log-Lipschitz condition
Harvard Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MAProbability Seminar Location: Room 109, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Speaker: Dan Mikulincer (MIT) Title: Lipschitz properties of transport maps under a log-Lipschitz condition Abstract: Consider the problem of realizing a target probability measure as a push forward, by a transport map, of a given source measure. Typically one thinks about […]
Symmetry in quantum field theory and quantum gravity 1
Speaker: Daniel Harlow (MIT) Title: Symmetry in quantum field theory and quantum gravity 1 Abstract: In this talk I will give an overview of semi-recent work with Hirosi Ooguri arguing that three old conjectures about symmetry in quantum gravity are true in the AdS/CFT correspondence. These conjectures are 1) that there are no global symmetries in […]
Compactness and Anticompactness Principles in Set Theory
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMember Seminar Speaker: Alejandro Poveda Title: Compactness and Anticompactness Principles in Set Theory Abstract: Several fundamental properties in Topology, Algebra or Logic are expressed in terms of Compactness Principles.For instance, a natural algebraic question is the following: Suppose that G is an Abelian group whose all small subgroups are free - Is the group G free? […]
Exact Many-Body Ground States from Decomposition of Ideal Higher Chern Bands: Applications to Chirally Twisted Graphene Multilayers
VirtualQuantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Junkai Dong (Harvard University) Title: Exact Many-Body Ground States from Decomposition of Ideal Higher Chern Bands: Applications to Chirally Twisted Graphene Multilayers Abstract: Motivated by the higher Chern bands of twisted graphene multilayers, we consider flat bands with arbitrary Chern number C with ideal quantum geometry. While C>1 bands differ from […]
IIB Explored – Dualities, Bordisms, and the Swampland
Jefferson 356Swampland Seminar Location: Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Seminar room J356 Speaker: Markus Dierigl (LMU Munich) Title: IIB Explored - Dualities, Bordisms, and the Swampland Abstract: In this talk I will discuss the application of the Cobordism Conjecture to type IIB supergravity with non-trivial duality bundle. Calculating the relevant bordism groups we find that they are highly non-trivial and […]
Neutrino Masses from Generalized Symmetry Breaking
VirtualQuantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Sungwoo Hong (U Chicago & KAIST) Title: Neutrino Masses from Generalized Symmetry Breaking Abstract: We explore generalized global symmetries in theories of physics beyond the Standard Model. Theories of Z′ bosons generically contain 'non-invertible' chiral symmetries, whose presence indicates a natural paradigm to break this symmetry by an exponentially small amount […]
Controlling Quantum Matter with Quantum Cavity Fields
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United Stateshttps://youtu.be/Ig468DbAVGs Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Vasil Rokaj (Harvard) Title: Controlling Quantum Matter with Quantum Cavity Fields Abstract: Cavity modification of material properties and phenomena is a novel research field motivated by the advances in strong light-matter interactions . For condensed matter systems it has been demonstrated experimentally that the transport properties of 2D materials […]
How do Transformers reason? First principles via automata, semigroups, and circuits
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United Stateshttps://youtu.be/g8zdumOAWzw New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Cyril Zhang, Microsoft Research Title: How do Transformers reason? First principles via automata, semigroups, and circuits Abstract: The current "Transformer era" of deep learning is marked by the emergence of combinatorial and algorithmic reasoning capabilities in large sequence models, leading to dramatic advances in natural language understanding, program synthesis, […]
Fourier quasicrystals and stable polynomials
Harvard Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MAProbability Seminar Note location change: Science Center Room 300H Speaker: Lior Alon (MIT) Title: Fourier quasicrystals and stable polynomials Abstract: The Poisson summation formula says that the countable sum of exp(int), over all integers n, vanishes as long as t is not an integer multiple of 2 pi. Can we find a non-periodic discrete set A, such […]
A new proof for the nonlinear stability of slowly-rotating Kerr-de Sitter
Virtualhttps://youtu.be/jwvkS2A2dL8 General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Allen Fang (Princeton) Title: A new proof for the nonlinear stability of slowly-rotating Kerr-de Sitter Abstract: The nonlinear stability of the slowly-rotating Kerr-de Sitter family was first proven by Hintz and Vasy in 2016 using microlocal techniques. In my talk, I will present a novel proof of the nonlinear stability […]