Speaker: Ioannis Petrides, Harvard University Title: Topological and geometrical aspects of spinors in insulating crystals Abstract: Introducing internal degrees of freedom in the description of crystalline insulators …
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Speaker: Cari Cesarotti (Harvard) Title: Oblique Lessons from the W Mass Measurement at CDF II Abstract: The CDF collaboration recently reported a new precise measurement …
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Speaker: Brian Swingle (Brandeis) Title: Cosmology from the vacuum Abstract: We are familiar with the idea that quantum gravity in AdS can holographically emerge from complex …
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On June 6-8, 2022, the CMSA will host the 3rd annual Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC). The Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC) is …
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Venue: Virtual Speaker: Yuval Peled (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Title: The threshold for stacked triangulations Abstract: Consider a bootstrap percolation process that starts with a set …
Read moreHere are answers to some of the questions from lectures 2 and 3 Lecture 2: Mechanism Design (April 20, 2022) (1) Is No Veto Power …
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Venue: Virtual Speaker: Venkatesan Guruswami (UC Berkeley) Title: Long common subsequences between bit-strings and the zero-rate threshold of deletion-correcting codes Abstract: Suppose we transmit n bits on a noisy …
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Venue: Lyman 425 Speaker: Guillaume Duclos Title: Building active nematic and active polar liquids out of biological machines Abstract: Active matter describes out-of-equilibrium materials composed …
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Venue: Virtual Speaker: Ruben Verresen (Harvard) Title: Higgs = SPT Abstract: The Higgs phase of a gauge theory is important to both fundamental physics (e.g., …
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Venue: Virtual Speaker: Shlomo S. Razamat (Technion) Title: Aspects of 4d supersymmetric dynamics and geometry Abstract: We will overview the program of geometrically engineering four …
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