Topology and Dynamics in Quantum Matter Workshop
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesOn September 10-11, 2019, the CMSA hosted a second workshop on Topological Aspects of Condensed Matter. New ideas rooted in topology have recently had a major impact on condensed matter physics, and have led to new connections with high energy physics, mathematics and quantum information theory. The aim of this program will be to deepen these […]
Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics Seminar
As part of the program on Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics, the CMSA will be hosting a weekly seminar on Thursdays at 2:30pm in room G10. Date Speaker Title/Abstract 9/12/2019 Pasha Pylyavskyy (University of Minnesota) Title: Vector-relation configurations and plabic graphs 19/18/2019 2:00pm G02 Francis Brown (University of Oxford) Title: Amplitudes, Polylogs and Moduli Spaces 9/19/2019 Chuck Doran (University of […]
A taste of noncommutative convex algebraic geometry
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Bill Helton (UC San Diego) Title: A taste of noncommutative convex algebraic geometry Abstract: The last decade has seen the development of a substantial noncommutative (in a free algebra) real and complex algebraic geometry. The aim of the subject is to develop a systematic theory of equations and inequalities for (noncommutative) polynomials or rational functions of matrix variables. […]