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  • Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar

    The Structure of the Flux Landscape

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

    Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Damian Van de Heisteeg, Harvard CMSA Title: The Structure of the Flux Landscape Abstract: Identifying flux vacua in string theory with stabilized complex structure moduli presents a significant challenge, necessitating the minimization of a scalar potential complicated by infinitely many exponential corrections. In order to obtain exact results we […]

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    2025 Ding Shum Lecture: Irit Dinur, IAS: Expanders from local to global

    Harvard Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

      https://youtu.be/jEDFrIvRowc On February 13, 2025 the CMSA hosted the sixth annual Ding Shum Lecture, given by Irit Dinur, Institute for Advanced Study. Location: Harvard Science Center  Hall A & via Zoom Webinar Speaker: Irit Dinur, Institute for Advanced Study Title: Expanders from local to global Abstract: Imagine a network—like a social network, a transportation […]

  • Jack polynomials and enumeration of non-orientable maps

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Houcine Ben Dali, Harvard CMSA Title: Jack polynomials and enumeration of non-orientable maps Abstract: A map is a graph embedded on a surface, which may be orientable or not. The representation theory of the symmetric group can be used to write the generating series of maps on orientable surfaces using Schur symmetric functions. Several […]

  • General Relativity Seminar

    Virtual

    https://youtu.be/T9D4heG-OSU General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Maximilian Ofner, University of Vienna Title: Stability and Instability of Relativistic Fluids in Slowly Expanding Spacetimes Abstract: Homogeneous and isotropic solutions to the relativistic Euler equations are known to be unstable on a Minkowski background. However, for FLRW models with a fast expansion rate, relativistic fluids stabilize. This scenario suggests […]

  • CMSA Q&A Seminar

    CMSA Q&A Seminar: Phillip Matchett Wood

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Phillip Matchett Wood, Harvard University Topic: Info session on the CMSA/Mathematics Summer REU Program (Research Experience for Undergraduates)  

  • Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar

    The geometry of pure spinor superfield formalism 

    Virtual

    Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Simone Noja (Heidelberg University) Title: The geometry of pure spinor superfield formalism Abstract: In this talk I will present a mathematical perspective on the pure spinor superfield formalism. In particular, I will discuss how field multiplets in supersymmetric theories can be constructed mathematically from geometric data associated with certain […]

  • Toward constructing a large-scale quantum computer based on TQFT

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

    Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Liyuan Chen ( Harvard) Title: Toward constructing a large-scale quantum computer based on TQFT Abstract: Topological quantum computation, motivated by topological quantum field theory (TQFT), offers a promising path toward fault-tolerant universal quantum computation. However, the practical realization of such a system remains challenging due to the […]

  • BKL bounces outside homogeneity

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

    https://youtu.be/g8V7VeQwDtk General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Warren Li ( Princeton University) Title: BKL bounces outside homogeneity Abstract: In work spanning the late 20th century, physicists Belinski, Khalatnikov and Lifshitz (BKL) proposed a general ansatz for solutions to the Einstein (vacuum) equations near singularities. They suggest that the spacetime dynamics at different spatial points on the singularity decouple […]

  • Datasets for Math: From AIMO Competitions to Math Copilots for Research

    Virtual

    https://youtu.be/XUp3IM66AQA   New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Simon Frieder, Oxford Title: Datasets for Math: From AIMO Competitions to Math Copilots for Research Abstract: This talk begins with a brief exposition of the AI Mathematical Olympiad (AIMO) on Kaggle, now in its second iteration, outlining datasets and models available to contestants. Taking a broader perspective, I then […]

  • Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar

    2d chiral Lagrangian for asymptotic dynamics for 4d (self-dual) Einstein gravity

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

    Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Wei Bu (Harvard University) Title: 2d chiral Lagrangian for asymptotic dynamics for 4d (self-dual) Einstein gravity Abstract: In this talk, I will present a simple chiral 2d Lagrangian living on a 2d celestial sphere on the null boundary of 4d Minkowski space and briefly mention its first principal […]