Foundation Seminar (Joint Seminar with BHI) Title: Searching for Dark Matter in the Sky Abstract: Astrophysical and cosmological observations have allowed us to measure the abundance of dark matter and have provided important information on its properties. I will discuss past, present and future efforts to map the gravitational footprint of dark matter throughout the […]
Colloquium Speaker: Anastasia Volovich, Brown University Title: Mathematical Structures of Scattering Amplitudes Abstract: Planar N=4 Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes have been computed to very high loop order. They have many remarkable properties that have sparked interest from mathematicians working on combinatorics, algebraic geometry, and number theory. At the same time, several methods that have been developed […]
Colloquium Speaker: Russell Miller, CUNY Title: Computability on $\mathbb R$ and other continuum-size structures Abstract: We begin by recalling the notion of a computable function on the real numbers $\mathbb R$, developed independently by Gregorczyk and Lacombe over sixty years ago. Using this notion, we note that the real numbers that are themselves computable form […]
General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Tin Yau Tsang, Courant Institute, New York University Title: Mass for the large and for the small Abstract: Seeking a meaningful geometric (physical) invariant to describe a spacetime has sparked research in both mathematics and physics. In this talk, we will first see the fundamental progress made by Schoen-Yau and Witten […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speakers: Sunghyuk Park and Vasily Krylov, Harvard CMSA Title: Factorization Homology
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Leyan Pan, Georgia Tech Title: Can Transformers Reason Logically? A Study in SAT-Solving Abstract: Transformer-based LLMs have apparently demonstrated capabilities that resembles human reasoning. In our recent work, we investigated the Boolean reasoning abilities of decoder-only Transformers equipped with Chain-of-Thought, establishing that a Transformer model can decide all 3-SAT […]
Special Seminar Speaker: Jeongwan Haah, Stanford University Title: Quantum Cellular Automata Abstract: A discrete time evolution on lattice systems that has a notion of lightcone is called a quantum cellular automaton. Lattice translation in 1D is a well-known example of QCA that is nontrivial in the sense that it is not a local Hamiltonian evolution. […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Robert Moscrop Title: On the Coulomb branch scaling dimensions of 4d N=2 SCFTs Abstract: To each four dimensional N=2 superconformal field theory of rank-r, one can associate an r-tuple of numbers given by the scaling dimensions of a special set of protected operators whose VEVs parameterise the Coulomb branch. In this talk, I will demonstrate […]
Freedman CMSA Seminar Speaker: Michael Freedman Title: A simple model for universal quantum computation Abstract: I’ll present joint (unpublished) work with Charlie Marcus on a surprisingly simple – and potentially practical (?)– model for universal quantum computation whose only quantum primitive is the ability to measure a pair of adjacent electrons into either singlet (spin=0) […]
Full Name Role Office # Affiliation Dates Email Address Iacopo Brivio Postdoctoral Fellow 112 CMSA ibrivio@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu Hugo Cui Postdoctoral Fellow 112 CMSA hugo.cui@epfl.ch Tomer Ezra Postdoctoral Fellow 109 CMSA tomer@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu Samy Jelassi Postdoctoral Fellow 109 CMSA sjelassi@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu Uri Kol Postdoctoral Fellow 109 CMSA urikol@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu Daniel Mitropolsky Postdoctoral Fellow G-08 CMSA daniel.mitropolsky@gmail.com Puskar Mondal Postdoctoral Fellow […]
https://youtu.be/gtvSMhYhD3w General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Nikolaos Athanasiou, University of Crete, Greece Title: The Einstein-Vlasov system in a large data regime Abstract: In this talk, our object of study is the Einstein-Vlasov system with a massless Vlasov matter field. Complementing various important works obtaining the stability of Minkowski spacetime as a solution to this system, we […]
Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Daniel Pomerleano (UMass Boston) Title: The Quantum GIT conjecture Abstract: Let X be a Fano variety with G action. The quantum GIT conjecture predicts a formula for the quantum cohomology of "anti-canonical" GIT quotients X//G in terms of the equivariant quantum cohomology of X. The formula is motivated […]
Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Yi-Hsien Du (MIT) Title: Nonlinear Bosonization of (Non-)Fermi Liquids Abstract: Fermi liquid theory is a cornerstone of condensed matter physics. I will show how to formulate Fermi liquid theory as an effective field theory. In this approach, the space of low-energy states of a Fermi liquid is identified with a […]