CMSA Q&A Seminar 2/20/2024
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Solomon Friedberg, Boston College Question: What is the Langlands program?
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CMSA Q&A Seminar 2/27/2024
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed Question: What are Higgs bundles?
CMSA Q&A Seminar 3/5/2024
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Cumrun Vafa Question: What is swampland?
CMSA Q&A Seminar 3/5/2024
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Yannai Gonczarowski, Harvard University Question: What do people mean when they say 'the intersection between theoretical computer science and economic theory'?
CMSA Q&A Seminar 3/19/2024
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Arthur Jaffe, Harvard University Question: What is mathematical picture language?
CMSA Q&A Seminar 4/16/2024
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Cengiz Pehlevan, Harvard Question: What is feature learning?
CMSA Q&A Seminar 4/23/2024
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Melanie Weber, Harvard Question: What is the Ricci curvature of a graph?
CMSA Q&A Seminar 4/30/2024
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Question: What is morphogenesis? (Morphogenesis: geometry and biology)
Instanton in Lattice QCD from Higher Categories and Higher Anafunctors
Speaker: Jing-Yuan Chen, Tsinghua University Title: Instanton in Lattice QCD from Higher Categories and Higher Anafunctors Abstract: Putting continuum QFT (not just TQFT) on the lattice is important for both fundamental understandings and practical numerics. The traditional way of doing so, based on simple intuitions, however, does not admit natural definitions for general topological operators of continuous-valued […]
Classification and Construction of crystalline topological superconductors and insulators in interacting fermion systems
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Zhengcheng Gu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Title: Classification and construction of crystalline topological superconductors and insulators in interacting fermion systems Abstract: The construction and classification of crystalline symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in interacting bosonic and fermionic systems have been intensively studied in the past few years. Crystalline SPT phases […]
Going to the other side …. in algebra, topology, and maybe physics
Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Speaker: Sergei Gukov (Caltech) Title: Going to the other side .... in algebra, topology, and maybe physics Abstract: Inspired by Eugene Wigner's reflections on the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences,' this talk is about the surprising and pervasive role of a peculiar phenomenon that, a priori, […]
Holography and Regge Phases at Large U(1) Charge
Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Giulia Fardelli, Boston University Title: Holography and Regge Phases at Large U(1) Charge Abstract: A single Conformal Field Theory (CFT) can have a rich phase diagram with qualitatively different emergent behaviors in a range of different regimes parameterized by the conserved charges of the theory. In this […]