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SUMMARY:10/15/2020 Quantum Matter Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/10-15-2020-quantum-matter-seminar/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201019T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201019T113000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T030908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T030908Z
UID:10001498-1603103400-1603107000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:10/19/2020 Math Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/10-19-2020-math-physics-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201020T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201020T123000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T030632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T030632Z
UID:10001497-1603193400-1603197000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:10/20/2020 Computer Science for Math
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/10-20-2020-computer-science-for-math/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Computer Science for Mathematicians Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T120000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T023403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T023403Z
UID:10001495-1603276200-1603281600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:10/21/2020 Quantum Matter Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/10-21-2020-quantum-matter-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T120000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T023302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T023302Z
UID:10001494-1603362600-1603368000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:10/22/2020 Quantum Matter Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/10-22-2020-quantum-matter-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T123000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T022958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T022958Z
UID:10001491-1603798200-1603801800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:10/27/2020 Computer Science for Mathematicians
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/10-27-2020-computer-science-for-mathematicians/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Computer Science for Mathematicians Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201028T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201028T120000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T023513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T023513Z
UID:10001496-1603881000-1603886400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:10/28/2020 Strongly Correlated Quantum Materials
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/10-28-2020-strongly-correlated-quantum-materials/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Strongly Correlated Quantum Materials and High-Temperature Superconductors
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201028T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201028T150000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T023200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T023200Z
UID:10001493-1603893600-1603897200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:10/28/2020 RM&PT seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/10-28-2020-rmpt-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201028T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201028T160000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T031359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240515T201157Z
UID:10001502-1603897200-1603900800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Generalization bounds for rational self-supervised learning algorithms\, or "Understanding generalizations requires rethinking deep learning"
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Boaz Barak and Yamini Bansal\, Harvard University Dept. of Computer Science \nTitle: Generalization bounds for rational self-supervised learning algorithms\, or “Understanding generalizations requires rethinking deep learning” \nAbstract: The generalization gap of a learning algorithm is the expected difference between its performance on the training data and its performance on fresh unseen test samples. Modern deep learning algorithms typically have large generalization gaps\, as they use more parameters than the size of their training set. Moreover the best known rigorous bounds on their generalization gap are often vacuous. In this talk we will see a new upper bound on the generalization gap of classifiers that are obtained by first using self-supervision to learn a complex representation of the (label free) training data\, and then fitting a simple (e.g.\, linear) classifier to the labels. Such classifiers have become increasingly popular in recent years\, as they offer several practical advantages and have been shown to approach state-of-art results. We show that (under the assumptions described below) the generalization gap of such classifiers tends to zero as long as the complexity of the simple classifier is asymptotically smaller than the number of training samples. We stress that our bound is independent of the complexity of the representation that can use an arbitrarily large number of parameters. Our bound assuming that the learning algorithm satisfies certain noise-robustness (adding small amount of label noise causes small degradation in performance) and rationality (getting the wrong label is not better than getting no label at all) conditions that widely (and sometimes provably) hold across many standard architectures. We complement this result with an empirical study\, demonstrating that our bound is non-vacuous for many popular representation-learning based classifiers on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet\, including SimCLR\, AMDIM and BigBiGAN. The talk will not assume any specific background in machine learning\, and should be accessible to a general mathematical audience. Joint work with Gal Kaplun. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/10-28-2020-new-technologies-in-mathematics-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-New-Technologies-in-Mathematics-10.28.20.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201029T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201029T120000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T023101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T023101Z
UID:10001492-1603967400-1603972800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:10/29/2020 Quantum Matter Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/10-29-2020-quantum-matter-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201102T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201102T113000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T021628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T021628Z
UID:10001483-1604313000-1604316600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/9/2020 Math-Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-9-2020-math-physics-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201102T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201102T113000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T022854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T022854Z
UID:10001490-1604313000-1604316600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/2/2020 Math-Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-2-2020-math-physics-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201103T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201103T123000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T022741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T022741Z
UID:10001489-1604403000-1604406600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/3/2020 Computer Science for Mathematicians
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-3-2020-computer-science-for-mathematicians/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Computer Science for Mathematicians Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201104T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201104T150000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T021839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T021839Z
UID:10001485-1604498400-1604502000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/04/2020 RMPT Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-04-2020-rmpt-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201104T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201104T160000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T021940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240515T200835Z
UID:10001486-1604502000-1604505600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Some exactly solvable models for machine learning via Statistical physics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Florent Krzakala\, EPFL \nTitle: Some exactly solvable models for machine learning via Statistical physics \nAbstract: The increasing dimensionality of data in the modern machine learning age presents new challenges and opportunities. The high dimensional settings allow one to use powerful asymptotic methods from probability theory and statistical physics to obtain precise characterizations and develop new algorithmic approaches. Statistical mechanics approaches\, in particular\, are very well suited for such problems. Will give examples of recent works in our group that build on powerful methods of statistical physics of disordered systems to analyze some relevant questions in machine learning and neural networks\, including overparameterization\, kernel methods\, and the behavior gradient descent algorithm in a high dimensional non-convex landscape.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-4-2020-new-technologies-in-math/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-New-Technologies-in-Mathematics-11.04.20.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201105T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201105T120000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T021509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T021509Z
UID:10001482-1604572200-1604577600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/05/2020 Quantum Matter Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-05-2020-quantum-matter-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201106T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201106T150000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T021729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T021729Z
UID:10001484-1604665800-1604674800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/6/2020 Strongly Correlated Quantum Materials Lecture
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-6-2020-strongly-correlated-quantum-materials-lecture/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Strongly Correlated Quantum Materials and High-Temperature Superconductors
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201110T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201110T123000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T021030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T021030Z
UID:10001479-1605007800-1605011400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/10/2020 Computer Science for Mathematicians
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-10-2020-computer-science-for-mathematicians/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Computer Science for Mathematicians Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T120000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T020649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T020649Z
UID:10001476-1605090600-1605096000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/11/2020 Quantum Matter Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-11-2020-quantum-matter-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T160000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T021159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240515T200604Z
UID:10001480-1605106800-1605110400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Towards AI for mathematical modeling of complex biological systems: Machine-learned model reduction\, spatial graph dynamics\, and symbolic mathematics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eric Mjolsness\, Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics\, UC Irvine \nTitle: Towards AI for mathematical modeling of complex biological systems: Machine-learned model reduction\, spatial graph dynamics\, and symbolic mathematics \nAbstract: The complexity of biological systems (among others) makes demands on the complexity of the mathematical modeling enterprise that could be satisfied with mathematical artificially intelligence of both symbolic and numerical flavors. Technologies that I think will be fruitful in this regard include (1) the use of machine learning to bridge spatiotemporal scales\, which I will illustrate with the “Dynamic Boltzmann Distribution” method for learning model reduction of stochastic spatial biochemical networks and the “Graph Prolongation Convolutional Network” approach to course-graining the biophysics of microtubules; (2) a meta-language for stochastic spatial graph dynamics\, “Dynamical Graph Grammars”\, that can represent structure-changing processes including microtubule dynamics and that has an underlying combinatorial theory related to operator algebras; and (3) an integrative conceptual architecture of typed symbolic modeling languages and structure-preserving maps between them\, including model reduction and implementation maps. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-11-2020-new-technologies-in-mathematics/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-New-Technologies-in-Mathematics-11.11.20-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T160000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T021307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T021307Z
UID:10001481-1605106800-1605110400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/11/2020 RM&PT Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-11-2020-rmpt-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T120000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T020910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T020910Z
UID:10001478-1605177000-1605182400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/12/2020 Condensed Matter Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-12-2020-condensed-matter-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Colloquia & Seminar,Seminars
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T093000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20230707T112548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250328T201252Z
UID:10000145-1605254400-1605259800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Knot Invariants From Gauge Theory in Three\, Four\, and Five Dimensions
DESCRIPTION:Edward Witten (IAS) \nTitle: Knot Invariants From Gauge Theory in Three\, Four\, and Five Dimensions \nAbstract: I will explain connections between a sequence of theories in two\, three\, four\, and five dimensions and describe how these theories are related to the Jones polynomial of a knot and its categorification. \nTalk chair: Cliff Taubes \nVideo
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/cmsa-math-science-literature-lecture_witten/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Event,Math Science Literature Lecture Series,Public Lecture,Special Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/Lecture_Witten-pdf.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T093000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20230707T112758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250328T200750Z
UID:10000895-1605513600-1605519000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Classical and quantum integrable systems in enumerative geometry
DESCRIPTION:Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University) \nTitle: Classical and quantum integrable systems in enumerative geometry \nAbstract: 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 even the most important aspects of this interplay in one talk\, I will try to highlight a few logical points with the goal to explain the place and the role of certain more recent developments. \nTalk chair: Cumrun Vafa \nVideo
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/cmsa-math-science-literature-lecture_okounkov/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Event,Math Science Literature Lecture Series,Public Lecture,Special Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/Lecture_Okounkov-1-pdf.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T110000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T020805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T020805Z
UID:10001477-1605520800-1605524400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/16/2020 Mathematical Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-16-2020-mathematical-physics-seminar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201117T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201117T123000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T020524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T020524Z
UID:10001475-1605612600-1605616200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/17/2020 Computer Science for Mathematicians
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-17-2020-computer-science-for-mathematicians/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Computer Science for Mathematicians Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T093000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20230707T113020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250328T201157Z
UID:10000896-1605686400-1605691800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Log Calabi-Yau fibrations
DESCRIPTION:Caucher Birkar (University of Cambridge) \nTitle: Log Calabi-Yau fibrations \nAbstract: 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 be examined from many different perspectives. The purpose of this talk is to introduce the theory of log Calabi-Yau fibrations\, to remind some known results\, and to state some open problems. \nVideo \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/cmsa-math-science-literature-lecture_birkar/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Event,Math Science Literature Lecture Series,Public Lecture,Special Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/Lecture_Birkar-pdf.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T110000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240209T115024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T202224Z
UID:10001870-1605692700-1605697200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Re-pricing avalanches
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jose A. Scheinkman (Columbia)\n\nTitle: Re-pricing avalanches\n\nAbstract: 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 finite number of firms is capable of generating large fluctuations in the number of firms that adjust prices in response to an idiosyncratic shock to a firm’s cost of price adjustment.  These fluctuations\, in turn\, cause fluctuations  in aggregate price changes even in the absence of aggregate shocks. (Joint work with Makoto Nirei.)
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/3-11-2020-colloquium/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T120000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T020411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T020411Z
UID:10001474-1605695400-1605700800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/18/2020 Strongly Correlated Quantum Materials
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-18-2020-strongly-correlated-quantum-materials/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Strongly Correlated Quantum Materials and High-Temperature Superconductors
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T150000
DTSTAMP:20260508T072243
CREATED:20240127T020254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240127T020254Z
UID:10001473-1605708000-1605711600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:11/18/2020 RMPT
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/11-18-2020-rmpt/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminar
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR