CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Birational geometry
VirtualVyacheslav V. Shokurov (Johns Hopkins University) Title: Birational geometry Abstract: About main achievements in birational geometry during the last fifty years. Talk chair: Caucher Birkar Video
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Kunihiko Kodaira and complex manifolds
VirtualYujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo) Title: Kunihiko Kodaira and complex manifolds Abstract: Kodaira’s motivation was to generalize the theory of Riemann surfaces in Weyl’s book to higher dimensions. After quickly recalling the […]
Statistical, mathematical, and computational aspects of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers
Speaker: Gil Kalai (Hebrew University and IDC Herzliya) Title: Statistical, mathematical, and computational aspects of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers Abstract: Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) Computers hold the key for important theoretical and experimental questions regarding […]
Triple Descent and a Fine-Grained Bias-Variance Decomposition
Speaker: Jeffrey Pennington, Google Brain Title: Triple Descent and a Fine-Grained Bias-Variance Decomposition Abstract: Classical learning theory suggests that the optimal generalization performance of a machine learning model should occur […]