During Academic year 2018-19, the CMSA will be hosting a Program on Topological Aspects of Condensed Matter. New ideas rooted in topology have recently had a big impact on condensed matter physics, and have highlighted new connections with high energy physics, mathematics and quantum information theory. Additionally, these ideas have found applications in the design of photonic […]
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During Academic year 2018-19, the CMSA will be hosting a Program on Mathematical Biology. Just over a century ago, the biologist, mathematician and philologist D’Arcy Thompson wrote “On growth and form”. The book was a visionary synthesis of the geometric biology of form at the time. It also served as a call for mathematical and physical approaches […] |
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Speaker: Moon Duchin (Tufts) Title: Exploring the (massive) space of graph partitions Abstract: The problem of electoral redistricting can be set up as a search of the space of partitions of a graph (representing the units of a state or other jurisdiction) subject to constraints (state and federal rules about the properties of districts). I'll survey the problem and some […] |
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In the Fall 2018 Semester the CMSA will be hosting a seminar on Hodge and Noether-Lefschetz loci, with lectures given by Hossein Movasati (IMPA). The seminar will occur weekly on Wednesday at 1:30 in room G10 of the CMSA. The schedule below will be updated as talks are confirmed. Date Title/Abstract 11/7/2018 Video Title: Hodge and Noether-Lefschetz loci Abstract: Hodge cycles are […] |
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Current Developments in Mathematics 2018 Conference. Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 2:15 pm – 6:00 pm Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center, Hall B Youtube Playlist |
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Speaker: Xiaoqin Wang (Johns Hopkins University) Title: Computational Principles of Auditory Cortex Abstract: Auditory cortex is located at the top of a hierarchical processing pathway in the brain that encodes acoustic information. This brain region is crucial for speech and music perception and vocal production. Auditory cortex has long been considered a difficult brain region to study and remained one of less […] |
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Speaker: Robert Haslhofer (University of Toronto) Title: Recent progress on mean curvature flow Abstract: A family of surfaces moves by mean curvature flow if the velocity at each point is given by the mean curvature vector. Mean curvature flow is the most natural evolution in extrinsic geometry and shares many features with Hamilton’s Ricci flow from intrinsic geometry. In the […] |