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Event Series Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar

Mirror symmetry for fibrations and degenerations of K3 surfaces

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Alan Thompson (Loughborough University) Title: Mirror symmetry for fibrations and degenerations of K3 surfaces Abstract: In 2016, Doran, Harder, and I conjectured a mirror symmetric relationship between Tyurin degenerations and splittings of codimension 1 fibrations on Calabi-Yau manifolds. In this talk I will discuss recent work to make this […]

Event Series Member Seminar

Global weak solutions of 3+1 dimensional vacuum Einstein equations 

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal Title: Global weak solutions of 3+1 dimensional vacuum Einstein equations Abstract: It is important to understand if the `solutions' of non-linear evolutionary PDEs persist for all time or become extinct in finite time through the blow-up of invariant entities. Now the question of this global existence or finite time […]

Program on Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes

CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Program Dates: April 15 - May 24, 2024 Location: Harvard CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 This program will bring together and foster interaction between theoretical physicists and mathematicians working on various topics connected to recent developments in our understanding of scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. The field […]

Event Series General Relativity Seminar

New Well-Posed Boundary Conditions for Semi-Classical Euclidean Gravity

Virtual

General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Xiaoyi Liu, UCSB Title: New Well-Posed Boundary Conditions for Semi-Classical Euclidean Gravity Abstract: We consider four-dimensional Euclidean gravity in a finite cavity.  We point out that there exists a one-parameter family of boundary conditions, parameterized by a real constant, where a suitably Weyl-rescaled boundary metric is fixed, and all give a […]

Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Lecture

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Lecture Speaker: Sabrina Pasterski, Perimeter Institute Title: Radiation in Holography

Event Series Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar

Geometric local systems on very general curves

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Aaron Landesman, MIT Title: Geometric local systems on very general curves Abstract: What is the smallest genus h of a non-isotrivial curve over the generic genus g curve? In joint work with Daniel Litt, we show h is more than $\sqrt{g}$ by proving amore general result about variations of […]

Event Series Member Seminar

Member Seminar

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Sunghyuk Park, Harvard CMSA Title: 3D quantum trace map Abstract: I will speak about my recent work (joint with Sam Panitch) constructing the 3d quantum trace map, a homomorphism from the Kauffman bracket skein module of an ideally triangulated 3-manifold to its (square root) quantum gluing module, thereby giving a precise relationship […]

Event Series General Relativity Seminar

Quantum Energy Inequalities

Virtual

General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Chris Fewster, York University Title: Quantum Energy Inequalities Abstract: Many theorems of mathematical relativity, including singularity and positive mass theorems, include the classical energy conditions among their hypotheses. However, matter described by quantum field theory can violate the classical energy conditions and indeed there is no lower bound to the energy […]