• Optimal learning protocols via statistical physics and control theory

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Francesco Mori, CMSA Title: Optimal learning protocols via statistical physics and control theory Abstract: Behind the impressive performance of modern machine learning lies a toolkit of training tricks, from […]

  • Geometric Simplicity in Quantum Field Theory and Gravity

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

    Colloquium Speaker: Thomas Grimm, Utrecht University Title: Geometric Simplicity in Quantum Field Theory and Gravity Abstract: In physics we attribute much value to the emergence of simplicity, both conceptually and […]

  • Coulomb branches and KLRW algebras

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker:Vasily Krylov, CMSA Title: Coulomb branches and KLRW algebras Abstract: I will introduce Coulomb branches associated to a pair of a reductive group G and its […]

  • Asymptotic Theory of Attention: In-Context Learning and Sparse Token Detection

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

    Colloquium Speaker: Yue M. Lu, Harvard University Title: Asymptotic Theory of Attention: In-Context Learning and Sparse Token Detection Abstract: Attention-based architectures exhibit striking emergent abilities—from learning tasks directly from context to detecting rare, […]

  • Homological mirror symmetry for Coulomb branches

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Sebastian Haney, Harvard Title: Homological mirror symmetry for Coulomb branches Abstract: I will describe a result of Aganagic, Danilenko, Li, Shende, and Zhou which constructs a embeddings […]

  • Machine learning tools for mathematical discovery

    Virtual

    New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Adam Zsolt Wagner, Google DeepMind Title: Machine learning tools for mathematical discovery Abstract: I will discuss various ML tools we can use today to […]

  • Towards a Dolbeault AGT correspondence

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

    Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar Speaker: Surya Raghavendran, Yale Title: Towards a Dolbeault AGT correspondence Abstract: The AGT correspondence and its extensions propose geometric constructions of vertex algebras and their modules from […]

  • A combinatorial formula for interpolation Macdonald polynomials

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Houcine Ben Dali, Harvard CMSA Title: A combinatorial formula for interpolation Macdonald polynomials Abstract: In 1996, Knop and Sahi introduced a remarkable family of inhomogeneous symmetric polynomials, […]

  • Computing WKB periods 

    CMSA Room G02 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

    Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Max Meynig, University of Connecticut Title: Computing WKB periods Abstract:  In one dimensional quantum mechanics, the all-orders WKB method leads to ‘quantum periods’ which […]

  • Recent Advances in Probabilistically Checkable Proofs

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

    Colloquium Speaker: Dor Minzer (MIT) Title: Recent Advances in Probabilistically Checkable Proofs Abstract: The PCP Theorem is a cornerstone of computer science, with applications to hardness of approximation, verification, interactive protocols […]

  • Aganagic’s invariant is Khovanov homology

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Lorenzo Riva, CMSA Title: Aganagic’s invariant is Khovanov homology