Speaker: James Halverson (Northeastern University) Title: Unexpected Uses of Neural Networks: Field Theory and Metric Flows Abstract: We are now quite used to the idea that deep neural networks may be trained […]
Probability Seminar Speaker: Emma Bailey (CUNY) Title: Large deviations of Selberg’s central limit theorem Abstract: Selberg’s CLT concerns the typical behaviour of the Riemann zeta function and shows that the […]
https://youtu.be/KCo0iWFox1s General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Shahar Hadar (University of Haifa) Title: Resolving the photon ring Abstract: In the past few years, the Event Horizon Telescope has released the first close-up interferometric images of […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Shane McInally, Brandeis Title: Control of actin cable length by decelerated growth and network geometry Abstract: The sizes of many subcellular structures are coordinated with cell size […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Guanyu Zhu (IBM Quantum, T. J. Watson Research Center) Title: Fault-tolerant quantum computation via topological order on fractals and emergent symmetries Abstract: Topological quantum error correcting […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal Title: Recent progress on coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills dynamics Abstract: I will discuss my recent work with prof. S.T. Yau on Einstein-Yang-Mills theory. I’ll discuss the main […]
Probability Seminar Speaker: Evita Nestoridi (Stonybrook) Title: Diagonalizing Transition Matrices of Card Shuffles Abstract: In their seminal work, Diaconis and Shahshahani used representation theory of the symmetric group to diagonalize […]
Speaker: Julio Parra Martinez, Caltech Title: Black hole collider physics Abstract: Despite more than a century since the development of Einstein’s theory, the general relativistic two-body problem remains unsolved. A […]
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Prof. Subir Sachdev (Harvard) Title: A model of the cuprates: from the pseudogap metal to d-wave superconductivity and charge order Abstract: Soon after the discovery of […]
Swampland Seminar Speaker: Thomas Grimm (Utrecht U.) Title: The Tameness of Quantum Field Theories Abstract: Tameness is a generalized notion of finiteness that is restricting the geometric complexity of sets and functions. The underlying mathematical […]
https://youtu.be/kGpZ0nRcZRU General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Tin Yau Tsang, University of California Irvine Title: Recent advances in scalar curvature and positive mass theorems Abstract: First, we have a review of classical […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Freid Tong Title: On complete Calabi-Yau metrics and some related Monge-Ampere equations Abstract: We will give a basic introduction to constructions for complete Calabi-Yau metrics. A systematic […]