CMSA Q and A Seminar 9/19/2023
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math and CMSA), Denis Auroux (Harvard Math)
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Exact Results in Flat Band Hubbard Models
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United Stateshttps://youtu.be/VDOvgjk_vVY Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Princeton University Title: Exact Results in Flat Band Hubbard Models Abstract: Flat bands, like those in the kagome lattice or twisted bilayer graphene, are a natural setting for studying strongly coupled physics since the interaction strength is the only energy scale in the problem. They can exhibit unconventional behavior in the multi-orbital […]
The TinyStories Dataset: How Small Can Language Models Be And Still Speak Coherent
Virtualhttps://youtu.be/wTQH6mRDXhw New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Ronen Eldan, Microsoft Research Title: The TinyStories Dataset: How Small Can Language Models Be And Still Speak Coherent Abstract: While generative language models exhibit powerful capabilities at large scale, when either the model or the number of training steps is too small, they struggle to produce coherent and fluent […]
Floquet codes, automorphisms, and quantum computation
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesQuantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Margarita Davydova (MIT) Title: Floquet codes, automorphisms, and quantum computation Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce a new kind of measurement-based quantum computation inspired by Floquet codes. In this model, the quantum logical gates are implemented by short sequences of low-weight measurements which simultaneously encode logical information and enable error correction. […]
Modularity of Landau-Ginzburg Models
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMember Seminar Speaker: Chuck Doran Title: Modularity of Landau-Ginzburg Models Abstract: Fano varieties are the basic building blocks of algebraic varieties. Smooth Fano varieties have been classified in dimensions one (the projective line), two (del Pezzo surfaces), and three (Mori-Mukai classification). What does Mirror Symmetry have to say about such classifications? By studying the Landau-Ginzburg models mirror to […]
CMSA/Math Fall Gathering
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFriday, Sep 22, 2023 4:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.
Species Scale across String Moduli Spaces
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAlgebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Pre-talk Speaker: David Wu (Harvard Physics): 10:00-10:30 am Speaker: Damian van de Heisteeg, CMSA Title: Species Scale across String Moduli Spaces Abstract: String theories feature a wide array of moduli spaces. We propose that the energy cutoff scale of these theories – the so-called species scale – can be determined […]
Geometry at Strong coupling for amplitudes/Wilson loops
https://youtu.be/WQlkQf25np4 General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Lionel Mason (Oxford) Title: Geometry at Strong coupling for amplitudes/Wilson loops Abstract: The amplitude/Wilson loop correspondence identifies planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills amplitudes with certain null polygonal Wilson loops at all the values of the coupling. At strong coupling this equates the amplitude/Wilson loop computed by Alday & Maldacena in terms of […]
CMSA Q and A Seminar 9/26/2023
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Michael Douglas (CMSA) and Mayuko Yamashita (Kyoto University) Topics: Michael Douglas: "What is non-commutative field theory?" Mayuko Yamashita: "What is differential cohomology?"
Transformers for maths, and maths for transformers
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United Stateshttps://youtu.be/Sc6k06wVX3s New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: François Charton, Meta AI Title: Transformers for maths, and maths for transformers Abstract: Transformers can be trained to solve problems of mathematics. I present two recent applications, in mathematics and physics: predicting integer sequences, and discovering the properties of scattering amplitudes in a close relative of Quantum ChromoDynamics. Problems of […]
Large deviations for the 3D dimer model
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesProbability Seminar Speaker: Catherine Wolfram (MIT) Title: Large deviations for the 3D dimer model Abstract: A dimer tiling of Z^d is a collection of edges such that every vertex is covered exactly once. In 2000, Cohn, Kenyon, and Propp showed that 2D dimer tilings satisfy a large deviations principle. In joint work with Nishant Chandgotia […]
Strongly driven mixtures and membranes: Out of equilibrium surprises
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesActive Matter Seminar Speaker: Max Lavrentovich, Worcester State University Title: Strongly driven mixtures and membranes: Out of equilibrium surprises Abstract: The more prosaic cousin of active matter, driven inactive matter, is still full of unexpected phenomena. I will discuss two projects involving two seemingly mundane systems, a phase-separating colloidal mixture and a lipid membrane, which demonstrate […]