• Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics Seminar

    As part of the program on Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics, the CMSA will be hosting a weekly seminar on Thursdays at 2:30pm in room G10. Date Speaker Title/Abstract 9/12/2019 Pasha Pylyavskyy (University of Minnesota) Title: Vector-relation configurations and plabic graphs 19/18/2019 2:00pm G02 Francis Brown (University of Oxford) Title: Amplitudes, Polylogs and Moduli Spaces 9/19/2019 Chuck Doran (University of […]

  • A taste of noncommutative convex algebraic geometry

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Bill Helton (UC San Diego) Title:  A taste of noncommutative convex algebraic geometry Abstract: The last decade has seen the development of a substantial noncommutative (in a free algebra) real and complex algebraic geometry. The aim of the subject is to develop a systematic theory of equations and inequalities for (noncommutative) polynomials or rational functions of matrix variables. […]