During the Spring 2018 Semester Artan Sheshmani (QGM/CMSA) will be teaching a CMSA special lecture series on Quantum Cohomology, Nakajima Vareties and Quantum groups. The lectures will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning January 25th, from 1:00 to 3:00pm in room G10, CMSA Building. You can watch Prof. Sheshmani describe the series here. The Syllabus is as follows: Date……….. Topic Video/Audio […]
The workshop on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics will take place February 5-9, 2018 at the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics are two of the most central branches of modern combinatorial theory. Extremal Combinatorics deals with problems of determining or estimating the maximum or minimum possible cardinality of a collection of […]
Speaker: Fan Chung (University of California, San Diego) Title: Sequences: random, structured or something in between Abstract: There are many fundamental problems concerning sequences that arise in many areas of mathematics and computation. Typical problems include finding or avoiding patterns; testing or validating various ‘random-like’ behavior; analyzing or comparing different statistics, etc. In this talk, we will […]
Speaker: Zhengwei Liu (Harvard Physics) Title: A new program on quantum subgroups Abstract: Quantum subgroups have been studied since the 1980s. The A, D, E classification of subgroups of quantum SU(2) is a quantum analogue of the McKay correspondence. It turns out to be related to various areas in mathematics and physics. Inspired by the quantum McKay correspondence, […]