Feynman graph integrals from topological holomorphic theories 

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

Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Minghao Wang (Boston University) Title: Feynman graph integrals from topological holomorphic theories Abstract: Feynman graph integrals from topological theories were developed by M. Kontsevich, S. Axelrod and I. M. Singer in 1990s. These integrals have many mathematical applications, such as knot invariants, operad theory and formality theorems. In […]

Topics in Deep Learning Theory

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

Topics in Deep Learning Theory Eli Grigsby

Communication Complexity of Combinatorial Auctions

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Member Seminar Speaker: Tomer Ezra (CMSA) Title: Communication Complexity of Combinatorial Auctions Abstract: We study the communication complexity of welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions with m items and two subadditive bidders. A 2-approximation can be guaranteed by a trivial randomized protocol with zero communication, or a trivial deterministic protocol with O(1) communication. We show that […]

Classification and Construction of crystalline topological superconductors and insulators in interacting fermion systems

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Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Zhengcheng Gu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Title: Classification and construction of crystalline topological superconductors and insulators in interacting fermion systems Abstract: The construction and classification of crystalline symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in interacting bosonic and fermionic systems have been intensively studied in the past few years. Crystalline SPT phases […]

New Energy Inequality in AdS

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General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Diandian Wang, Harvard University Title: New Energy Inequality in AdS Abstract: I will describe evidence for a new energy inequality in asymptotically AdS spacetimes whose conformal boundary contains a spatial circle. It is in some sense analogous but crucially different to the Penrose inequality. In the AdS4 case, this generalizes the […]

Topics in Deep Learning Theory

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

Topics in Deep Learning Theory Eli Grigsby

Symplectic duality in examples

Science Center Hall E 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Vasily Krylov, Harvard CMSA & Math Title: Symplectic duality in examples Abstract: Over the past twenty years, mathematicians and physicists have shown increasing interest in studying certain Poisson varieties, known as “symplectic singularities.” Many of these objects naturally arise as Higgs or Coulomb branches of certain TQFTs and, therefore, […]