CMSA/MATH Welcome Back Gathering

CMSA 20 Garden Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 United States

Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 4:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.  

Smooth projective fibrations over the projective line and their sections

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio Title: Smooth projective fibrations over the projective line and their sections Abstract: Suppose $f\colon X\to \mathbf{CP}^1$ is a smooth projective fibration, is it then true that $f$ has […]

Topological to Gravitational Leptogenesis, via Ultra Unification 

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

Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Juven Wang (LIMS, Royal Institution) Title: Topological to Gravitational Leptogenesis, via Ultra Unification Abstract: We propose a new mechanism for leptogenesis, named Topological […]

The mass angular momentum inequality

Virtual

General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Gilbert Weinstein, Ariel University Title: The mass angular momentum inequality Abstract: We show that either there is a counterexample to black hole uniqueness, in the form […]

Blob homology

Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Sunghyuk Park, Harvard CMSA Title: Blob homology

Is every knot isotopic to the unknot?

Virtual

Freedman CMSA Seminar *via Zoom* Speaker: Sergey Melikhov, Steklov Math Institute Title: Is every knot isotopic to the unknot? Abstract: The following problem was stated by D. Rolfsen in his 1974 paper; […]

On 5d conformal matter

Virtual

Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Mario De Marco (UL Brussels) Title: On 5d conformal matter Abstract: SCFTs with 8 supercharges lie at the sweet spot of the classification […]