2/16/2021 Computer Science for Mathematicians
Speaker: Michael P. Kim (UC Berkeley) Title: Outcome Indistinguishability Abstract: Prediction algorithms assign numbers to individuals that are popularly understood as individual “probabilities” — e.g., what is the probability of 5-year survival […]
Global Anomalies on the Hilbert Space
Speaker: Jaume Gomis (Perimeter PI) Title: Global Anomalies on the Hilbert Space Abstract: We will discuss an elementary way of detecting some global anomalies from the way the symmetry algebra […]
2/18/2021 Quantum Matter Seminar
Speaker: Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT) Title: A solution to the chiral fermion problem Abstract: Motivated by the relation between anomaly and topological/SPT order in one higher dimension, we propose a solution […]
Full SYZ Conjecture for del Pezzo Surfaces and Rational Elliptic Surfaces
Speaker: Yu-Shen Lin (Boston University) Title: Full SYZ Conjecture for del Pezzo Surfaces and Rational Elliptic Surfaces Abstract: Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture predicts the existence of special Lagrangian fibrations on Calabi-Yau manifolds. […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Homological (homotopical) algebra and moduli spaces in Topological Field theories
Kenji Fukaya (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics) Title: Homological (homotopical) algebra and moduli spaces in Topological Field theories Abstract: Moduli spaces of various gauge theory equations and of various […]
A Mathematical Language
Speaker: Thomas Hales, Univ. of Pittsburgh Dept. of Mathematics Title: A Mathematical Language Abstract: A controlled natural language for mathematics is an artificial language that is designed in an […]
Mathematical supergravity and its applications to differential geometry
Speaker: Carlos S. Shahbazi (Hamburg University) Title: Mathematical supergravity and its applications to differential geometry Abstract: I will discuss the recent developments in the mathematical theory of supergravity that lay […]