In the 2020-2021 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a lecture series on Strongly Correlated Materials and High Tc Superconductor. All talks will take place from 10:30-12:00pm ET virtually on Zoom. Cuprate high-temperature superconductors are a classic quantum material system to demonstrate the beauty of “Emergence and Entanglement” in the quantum phases of matter. Merely by […]
Speaker: Carlos S. Shahbazi (Hamburg University) Title: Mathematical supergravity and its applications to differential geometry Abstract: I will discuss the recent developments in the mathematical theory of supergravity that lay the mathematical foundations of the universal bosonic sector of four-dimensional ungauged supergravity and its Killing spinor equations in a differential-geometric framework. I will provide the […]
https://youtu.be/EXpmbAfBNnw Speaker: Jason Rute, CIBO Technologies Title: Neural Theorem Proving in Lean using Proof Artifact Co-training and Language Models Abstract: Labeled data for imitation learning of theorem proving in large libraries of formalized mathematics is scarce as such libraries require years of concentrated effort by human specialists to be built. This is particularly challenging when applying […]
https://youtu.be/h0FW7l7z-C4 Speaker: Ido Kaminer, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Title: The Ramanujan Machine: Using Algorithms for the Discovery of Conjectures on Mathematical Constants Abstract: In the past, new conjectures about fundamental constants were discovered sporadically by famous mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, and Ramanujan. The talk will present a […]
Speaker: Silviu Pufu (Princeton University) Title: Exact symmetries and threshold states in two-dimensional models for QCD Abstract: Two-dimensional QCD models form an interesting playground for studying phenomena such as confinement and screening. In this talk I will describe one such model, namely a 2d SU(N) gauge theory with an adjoint and a fundamental fermion, and […]
https://youtu.be/-DKctbabRkY Speaker: Steve Skiena, Dept. of Computer Science and AI Insititute, Stony Brook University Title: Word and Graph Embeddings for Machine Learning Abstract: DeepWalk is an approach we have developed to construct vertex embeddings: vector representations of vertices which be applied to a very general class of problems in data mining and information retrieval. DeepWalk […]
Maxim Kontsevich (IHÉS) Title: On the History of quantum cohomology and homological mirror symmetry Abstract: About 30 years ago, string theorists made remarkable discoveries of hidden structures in algebraic geometry. First, the usual cup-product on the cohomology of a complex projective variety admits a canonical multi-parameter deformation to so-called quantum product, satisfying a nice system of differential […]
Beginning immediately, until at least December 31, all seminars will take place virtually, through Zoom. In the 2020-2021 AY, the Random Matrix and Probability Theory Seminar will take place on select Wednesdays from 2:00 – 3:00pm virtually. This seminar is organized by Christian Brennecke (brennecke@math.harvard.edu ). To learn how to attend this seminar, please fill out this form. […]