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SUMMARY:Some results about saturation
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Stephen Landsittel \nTitle: Some results about saturation \nAbstract: 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 commutes with saturation controls inherent properties of the rings R & S\, such as Cohen-Macaulayness and unramifiedness.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-13026/
LOCATION:Common Room\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T210938
CREATED:20250827T142953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251202T160532Z
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SUMMARY:A combinatorial formula for interpolation Macdonald polynomials
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Houcine Ben Dali\, Harvard CMSA \nTitle: A combinatorial formula for interpolation Macdonald polynomials \nAbstract: In 1996\, Knop and Sahi introduced a remarkable family of inhomogeneous symmetric polynomials\, defined via vanishing conditions\, whose top homogeneous parts are exactly the Macdonald polynomials. Like the Macdonald polynomials\, these interpolation Macdonald polynomials are closely connected to the Hecke algebra\, and admit nonsymmetric versions\, which generalize the nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials. I will present a combinatorial formula for interpolation Macdonald polynomials in terms of signed multiline queues. This formula generalizes the combinatorial formula for Macdonald polynomials in terms of multiline queues given by Corteel–Mandelshtam–Williams. This is based on a joint work with Lauren Williams.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-12525/
LOCATION:Common Room\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T210938
CREATED:20250827T142348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T150222Z
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SUMMARY:Optimal learning protocols via statistical physics and control theory
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Francesco Mori\, CMSA \nTitle: Optimal learning protocols via statistical physics and control theory \nAbstract: Behind the impressive performance of modern machine learning lies a toolkit of training tricks\, from tuning learning rates to curating training data. These heuristics are powerful but hard to interpret and possibly suboptimal\, leaving open the challenge of finding general principles for protocol design. In this talk\, I will present a framework that combines tools from statistical physics and control theory to identify optimal training strategies in simple yet insightful neural network models. In the high-dimensional limit\, the training dynamics can be reduced to closed-form ordinary differential equations for a small set of order parameters that track learning. This reduction allows us to pose the design of training protocols as an optimal control problem directly on the order-parameter dynamics\, with the objective of minimizing the generalization error. This formulation encompasses a variety of learning scenarios and yields principled training strategies that clarify\, and in some cases improve upon\, standard heuristic practices.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-112125/
LOCATION:Common Room\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T210938
CREATED:20250827T141526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T161856Z
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SUMMARY:Classification of 2D Stabilizer States
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Bowen Yang \nTitle: Classification of 2D Stabilizer States \nAbstract: I will explain how translation-invariant two-dimensional stabilizer states are completely classified by finite abelian groups with nondegenerate quadratic forms—that is\, by abelian anyon theories. The proof uses the algebraic structure of stabilizer codes as modules over Laurent polynomial rings\, revealing how their physical features reflect in this module-theoretic framework. arXiv:2509.10418
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-11725/
LOCATION:Common Room\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T130000
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CREATED:20250827T141457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T151940Z
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SUMMARY:Skein remain the same
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Sunghyuk Park\, CMSA \nTitle: Skein remain the same \nAbstract: The count of holomorphic curves in a Calabi-Yau 3-fold ending on a Lagrangian is famously not deformation invariant\, but Ekholm and Shende have shown that it can be made invariant by counting in the skein. Given a 3-manifold M and a branched cover arising from the projection of a Lagrangian 3-manifold L in the cotangent bundle of M\, we use the skein-valued curve count to construct a map from the skein of M to that of L. When M and L are products of surfaces and intervals\, deforming L within the space of Lagrangians yields a skein-valued lift of the Kontsevich-Soibelman wall-crossing formula. After all\, the skeins remain the same. Based on joint work (arXiv:2510.19041) with Tobias Ekholm\, Pietro Longhi\, and Vivek Shende. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-103125/
LOCATION:Common Room\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T130000
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CREATED:20250827T141425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T181711Z
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SUMMARY:Analytic Spread of Binomial Edge Ideals
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Stephen Landsittel\, CMSA \nTitle: Analytic Spread of Binomial Edge Ideals \nAbstract: To an ideal J in a polynomial ring R over a field K we associate its analytic spread \ell(J)\, which is the dimension of the fiber cone F(J) of J. When J is graded and generated in a single degree d\, then F(J) is a finite type K-algebra. \nTo a graph G we associate its binomial edge ideal: J_G:= (x_i y_j – x_jy_i | {i\,j} is an edge of G). \nIn this talk we will discuss recent work where sharp bounds are given for \ell(J_G) and we compute the exact value when G is a pseudoforest. We accomplish this by computing the transcendence degree trdeg_{K} F(J)\, of the fiber cone over K.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-102425/
LOCATION:Common Room\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T130000
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CREATED:20250827T141359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251010T180544Z
UID:10003766-1760702400-1760706000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:DMFT\, Two Point Correlations of Resolvents\, and Applications to Machine Learning Theory
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Blake Bordelon \nTitle: DMFT\, Two Point Correlations of Resolvents\, and Applications to Machine Learning Theory \nAbstract: Machine learning algorithms evolve the parameters of a model in a high dimensional and disordered loss landscape. To characterize the effects of random initialization of model parameters\, randomly sampled training data\, and the effect of SGD noise\, it often is useful to invoke ideas from random matrix theory and the physics of disordered systems. In this seminar\, I describe a general idea\, known as dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) which describes the evolution of a disordered dynamical system in infinite dimensions. I will briefly describe simple examples of interest to theoretical neuroscientists and machine learning theorists. For linear dynamical systems\, I will show that this method characterizes the typical case trajectory in terms of two point correlations of resolvent matrices evaluated at different frequencies. This bispectral object can account for puzzling effects such as late time divergence of gradient descent at the interpolation threshold (when parameters = dataset size) despite the Jacobian of the dynamics having real and non-positive eigenvalues. I will then describe a novel two point correlation result for general free products of the form M = O B O^T A for O sampled from the Haar measure. I will use this result to characterize the exact asymptotics of the performance of a linear transformer trained to perform in-context linear regression on “generic” (randomly rotated) covariance matrices.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-101725/
LOCATION:Common Room\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251010T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T210938
CREATED:20250827T140826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T190823Z
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SUMMARY:The Rozansky-Witten field theory in the functorial TQFT formalism
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Lorenzo Riva \nTitle: The Rozansky-Witten field theory in the functorial TQFT formalism \nAbstract: This will be a broad talk about the topic of my PhD thesis. We will discuss a particular example of a 3D field theory from physics called Rozansky-Witten which is interesting from both a physical and a mathematical point of view: its is connected with mirror symmetry\, the A- and B-models\, Calabi-Yau geometry\, and the partition functions give finite-type invariants of 3-manifolds. In the rest of the talk we will try to formalize this field theory as a functor out of a certain cobordism 3-category (emphasis on “try”).
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-101025/
LOCATION:Common Room\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T210938
CREATED:20250827T140756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T171806Z
UID:10003764-1759492800-1759496400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Local Donaldson-Scaduto conjecture
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani \nTitle: Local Donaldson-Scaduto conjecture \nAbstract: This talk is based on joint works with Gora Bera and Yang Li. Motivated by collapsing Calabi-Yau 3-folds and G2-manifolds with Lefschetz K3 fibrations in the adiabatic setting\, Donaldson and Scaduto conjectured the existence and uniqueness of a special Lagrangian pair-of-pants in the Calabi-Yau 3-fold $ X \times \mathbb{C}$\, where $X$ is either a hyperkähler K3 surface (global version) or an A2-type ALE hyperkähler 4-manifold (local version). After a brief introduction to the subject\, we discuss the significance of this conjecture in the study of Calabi-Yau 3-folds and G2-manifolds\, and then prove the local version of the conjecture. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-10325/
LOCATION:Common Room\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T130000
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CREATED:20250826T193028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T172135Z
UID:10003763-1758888000-1758891600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Sections of fibrations onto curves in characteristic p>0
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Iacopo Brivio \nTitle: Sections of fibrations onto curves in characteristic p>0 \nAbstract: This talk is based on joint work in progress with Ben Church. Using symplectic geometry\, Pieloch showed that every smooth fibration $f\colon X\to \mathbb{P}^1$ of complex projective varieties always admits a section. I will explain how this theorem can be recovered using techniques from Hodge theory and the Minimal Model Program. An advantage of this approach is that it allows for a positive characteristic generalization\, by replacing the Hodge theoretic input by a crystalline one. I will also give an example showing that Pieloch’s result can fail in characteristic p>0.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-92625/
LOCATION:Common Room\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T210938
CREATED:20241211T195345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T184123Z
UID:10003648-1758283200-1758286800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Top-Down Perspectives on Symmetry Theories
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Max Hubner \nTitle: Top-Down Perspectives on Symmetry Theories \nAbstract: I will review the construction and utility of symmetry theories for string constructed quantum field theories. Symmetry theories are extra-dimensional auxiliary theories separating aspects of a quantum field theory’s symmetries from many of its more messy features. For QFTs with extra-dimensional string constructions the symmetry theory derives directly from the extra-dimensional geometry. This perspective allows for the study of symmetries of famously string engineered systems\, such as SCFTs in 5D and 6D\, which we will discuss on an example by example basis.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-91925/
LOCATION:Common Room\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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