CMSA Q and A Seminar 9/19/2023
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math and CMSA), Denis Auroux (Harvard Math)
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CMSA Q and A Seminar 9/26/2023
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Michael Douglas (CMSA) and Mayuko Yamashita (Kyoto University) Topics: Michael Douglas: "What is non-commutative field theory?" Mayuko Yamashita: "What is differential cohomology?"
CMSA Q and A Seminar 10/3/2023
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math & CMSA) and Dan Berwick-Evans (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Topics: Dan Freed: What is framing anomaly? How is it different from other anomalies? Dan Berwick-Evans: What is Atiyah-Singer index theorem?
CMSA Q and A Seminar 10/10/23
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math and CMSA) and Sunghyuk Park (CMSA) Topics: Dan Freed: What is Dijkgraaf-Witten theory? Sunghyuk Park: What happened at the Clay Math Institute Workshop?
CMSA Q and A Seminar 10/24/23
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Xi Yin (Harvard Physics) and Peter Kronheimer (Harvard Math) Topics: Xi Yin: What is string field theory? Peter Kronheimer: What is Seiberg-Witten theory?
Mathematics in Science: Perspectives and Prospects
Harvard Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MAMathematics in Science: Perspectives and Prospects A showcase of mathematics in interaction with physics, computer science, biology, and beyond. October 27–28, 2023 Location: Harvard University Science Center Hall D & via Zoom. Directions and Recommended Lodging Youtube Playlist Speakers Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) Constantinos Daskalakis (MIT) Alison Etheridge (Oxford) Mike Freedman (Harvard CMSA) Greg Moore (Rutgers) […]
CMSA Q and A Seminar 11/7/2023
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Michael Hopkins (Harvard Math) and Minhea Popa (Harvard Math) Topics: Mike Hopkins: What are topological modular forms? Mihnea Popa: What is the abundance conjecture and why should it to be true?
CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Scott Kominers
Virtualhttps://youtu.be/y6Gc0G_2Mf0 CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Prof. Scott Kominers will present a lecture in the CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Series. Date: Monday, November 20, 2023 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am ET Location: Via Zoom Webinar Title: 60 Years of Matching: From Gale and Shapley to Trading Networks Abstract: Gale and Shapley's 1962 American Mathematical Monthly paper, "College Admissions and the […]
CMSA Q and A Seminar 12/5/2023
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Mike Douglas (Harvard CMSA) and Anurag Anshu (Harvard Computer Science) Topics: Mike Douglas: What are scaling laws in deep learning? Anurag Anshu: What's the difference between classical information theory and quantum information theory (or classical computation vs quantum computation)?
CMSA Q&A Seminar 2/6/2024
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Greg Moore, Rutgers University Question: What is supersymmetry?