Speaker: Xi Yin (Harvard) Title: An Introduction to the Non-Perturbative Bootstrap Abstract: I will discuss non-perturbative definitions of quantum field theories, some properties of correlation functions of local operators, and give a brief overview of some results and open questions concerning the conformal bootstrap
Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 1:30 pm – 5:20 pm Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center, Hall C Speakers: · Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine) · Subash Khot (NYU) · Jun Li (Stanford) · André Neves (Chicago) · Geordie Williamson (U Sidney) Youtube Playlist
Speaker: Madhu Sudan (Harvard) Title: Communication Complexity of Randomness Manipulation Abstract: The task of manipulating randomness has been a subject of intense investigation in the theory of computer science. The classical definition of this task consider a single processor massaging random samples from an unknown source and trying to convert it into a sequence of uniform independent bits. In […]
On December 2-4, 2019 the CMSA will be hosting a workshop on Quantum Matter as part of our program on Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Pictures can be found here. Organizers: Juven Wang (CMSA), Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT), […]
Speaker: Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT) Title: Emergence of graviton-like excitations from a lattice model Abstract: I will review some construction of lattice rotor model which give rise to emergent photons and graviton-like excitations. The appearance of vector-like charge and symmetric tensor field may be related to gapless fracton phases.