CMSA/MATH Fall Gathering
Harvard Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MACMSA/MATH Fall Gathering Friday, Sep 23, 2022 4:30–6:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.
12 events found.
Random determinants, the elastic manifold, and landscape complexity beyond invariance
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMember Seminar Speaker: Ben McKenna Title: Random determinants, the elastic manifold, and landscape complexity beyond invariance Abstract: The Kac-Rice formula allows one to study the complexity of high-dimensional Gaussian random functions […]
Candidates for Non-Supersymmetric Dualities
Virtualhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ED61O0f0Y&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=2 Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Speaker: Avner Karasik (University of Cambridge, UK) Title: Candidates for Non-Supersymmetric Dualities Abstract: In the talk I will discuss the possibility and the […]
Extracting the quantum Hall conductance from a single bulk wavefunction from the modular flow
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United Stateshttps://youtu.be/Y6YFgi6X5kE Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Ruihua Fan, Harvard University Title: Extracting the quantum Hall conductance from a single bulk wavefunction from the modular flow Abstract: One question in the […]
The Tree Property and uncountable cardinals
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesColloquium Speaker: Dima Sinapova (Rutgers University) Title: The Tree Property and uncountable cardinals Abstract: In the late 19th century Cantor discovered that there are different levels of infinity. More precisely […]
Statistical mechanics of neural networks: From the geometry of high dimensional error landscapes to beating power law neural scaling
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United Stateshttps://youtu.be/SQlPI07LvUc New Technologies in Mathematics Speaker: Surya Ganguli, Stanford University Title: Statistical mechanics of neural networks: From the geometry of high dimensional error landscapes to beating power law neural scaling Abstract: Statistical […]
General-relativistic viscous fluids
Virtualhttps://youtu.be/nfausHrja-Y General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Marcelo Disconzi, Vanderbilt University Title: General-relativistic viscous fluids Abstract: The discovery of the quark-gluon plasma that forms in heavy-ion collision experiments provides a unique opportunity to study the properties of matter under […]
GLSM, Homological projective duality and nc resolutions
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAlgebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Mauricio Romo, Tsinghua University Title: GLSM, Homological projective duality and nc resolutions Abstract: Kuznetsov's Homological projective duality (HPD) in algebraic geometry is a powerful theorem that allows to extract information about semiorthogonal decompositions of […]
Kahler geometry in twisted materials
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMember Seminar Speaker: Jie Wang Title: Kahler geometry in twisted materials Abstract: Flatbands are versatile platform for realizing exotic quantum phases due to the enhanced interactions. The canonical example is Landau […]
Holomorphic Twists and Confinement in N=1 SYM
Virtualhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBHTwt_dptc&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=1 Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Justin Kulp (Perimeter Institute) Title: Holomorphic Twists and Confinement in N=1 SYM Abstract: Supersymmetric QFT's are of long-standing interest for their high degree of solvability, […]
Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United Stateshttps://youtu.be/HUTWime3d6w New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Guy Gur-Ari, Google Research Title: Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models Abstract: Quantitative reasoning tasks which can involve mathematics, science, and programming […]
Quantum statistical mechanics of charged black holes and strange metals
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United Stateshttps://youtu.be/-Kjl8WehIPw Colloquium Please note this colloquium will be held at a special time: 4:00-5:00 pm. Speaker: Subir Sachdev (Harvard) Title: Quantum statistical mechanics of charged black holes and strange metals […]