Member Seminar Speaker: Stephen Landsittel Title: Some results about saturation Abstract: Given a local ring R we can ask when saturation of ideals in R commutes with other operations on ideals (such as extension to a ring containing R). We show that the condition that extension of ideals along a ring map R \to S […]
Freedman Seminar Speakers: Michael Freedman, CMSA and Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia (2-3 pm and 3:15-4:15 pm) Title: Formulating 4D surgery for AI agents Abstract: The topological category surgery exact sequence is still open for free groups (and most groups of exponential growth). The lack of knowledge is about both surgery and s-cobordism; and the […]
Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Pierre Vanhove (Institute of Theoretical Physics - Saclay) Title: Reflexive Polytopes and the Convergence of Feynman Integrals Abstract: In the parametric representation, Feynman integrals can be viewed as Euler integrals defined by the Symanzik polynomials of a graph. The convergence properties of these integrals are intimately tied […]
Colloquium Speaker: Olivier Bernardi, Brandeis University Title: Bijections for hyperplane arrangements of Coxeter type Abstract: This talk is about real hyperplane arrangements whose hyperplanes are of the form {xi −xj = s} or {xi +xj = s}. We describe a bijective framework for a large family of such arrangements which we call transitive. For each transitive arrangement A, […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speakers: Dan Freed and Bowen Yang
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: George Tsoukalas, UT Austin Dept. of Computer Science and Google DeepMind. Title: Automated Theory Formation and Interestingness in Mathematics Abstract: Advances in modern learning systems are beginning to demonstrate utility for select problems in research mathematics. A broader challenge is that of developing new theories automatically. This area has a rich […]
Date: February 4, 2026 Time: 5:00–6:00 pm Location: Harvard Science Center Hall C, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA Speaker: Barry Mazur, Harvard University Title: About the Birch and Swinnerton–Dyer Conjecture Abstract: In the 1950s Bryan Birch and Peter Swinnerton–Dyer made computations that suggested a striking connection between a basic global invariant of an elliptic curve […]
Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar Speaker: Monica Jinwoo Kang, Texas A&M University
Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar Speaker: Yinan Wang, Peking University
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