Colloquium 2021–22
During the 2021–22 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Colloquium, organized by Du Pei, Changji Xu, and Michael Simkin. It will take place on Wednesdays at 9:30am – 10:30am (Boston time). The […]
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The smooth closing lemma for area-preserving surface diffeomorphisms
Speaker: Boyu Zhang, Princeton University Title: The smooth closing lemma for area-preserving surface diffeomorphisms Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce the smooth closing lemma for area-preserving diffeomorphisms on surfaces. The […]
Light strings, strong coupling, and the Swampland
Member Seminar Speaker: Max Wiesner Title: Light strings, strong coupling, and the Swampland Abstract: In this talk, I will start by reviewing central ideas of the so-called Swampland Program. The Swampland […]
Metals with strongly correlated electrons: quantum criticality, disordered interactions, Planckian dissipation, and scale invariance
Speaker: Aavishkar Patel (UC Berkeley) Title: Metals with strongly correlated electrons: quantum criticality, disordered interactions, Planckian dissipation, and scale invariance Abstract: Metals that do not fit Landau’s famous Fermi liquid […]
1/20/2022 – Interdisciplinary Science Seminar
Title: Markov chains, optimal control, and reinforcement learning Abstract: Markov decision processes are a model for several artificial intelligence problems, such as games (chess, Go…) or robotics. At each timestep, an […]
AdS with Scale Separation
Member Seminar Speaker: Daniel Junghans Title: AdS with Scale Separation Abstract: I will talk about Anti-de Sitter solutions in string theory with a parametric separation between the AdS curvature scale and the […]
General Relativity Program
During the Spring 2022 semester, the CMSA hosted a program on General Relativity. This semester-long program included four minicourses, a conference, and a workshop. General Relativity Mincourses: March–May, 2022 General […]
Adventures in Perturbation Theory
Abstract: Recent years have seen tremendous advances in our understanding of perturbative quantum field theory—fueled largely by discoveries (and eventual explanations and exploitation) of shocking simplicity in the mathematical form of […]
CMSA Colloquium
During the 2021–22 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Colloquium, organized by Du Pei, Changji Xu, and Michael Simkin. It will take place on Wednesdays at 9:30am – 10:30am (Boston time). The […]
The black hole information paradox
Speaker: Samir Mathur (Ohio State University) Title: The black hole information paradox Abstract: In 1975, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes radiate away in a manner that violates quantum theory. Starting in […]
Cohomology of the moduli of Higgs bundles via positive characteristic
Abstract: In this talk, I will survey the P=W conjecture, which describes certain structures of the cohomology of the moduli space of Higgs bundles on a curve in terms of […]