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  • Classification and Construction of crystalline topological superconductors and insulators in interacting fermion systems

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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 […]

  • Communication Complexity of Combinatorial Auctions

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar Speaker: Tomer Ezra (CMSA) Title: Communication Complexity of Combinatorial Auctions Abstract: We study the communication complexity of welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions with m items and two subadditive bidders. A 2-approximation can be guaranteed by a trivial randomized protocol with zero communication, or a trivial deterministic protocol with O(1) communication. We show that […]

  • Topics in Deep Learning Theory

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Topics in Deep Learning Theory Eli Grigsby

  • Feynman graph integrals from topological holomorphic theories 

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Minghao Wang (Boston University) Title: Feynman graph integrals from topological holomorphic theories Abstract: Feynman graph integrals from topological theories were developed by M. Kontsevich, S. Axelrod and I. M. Singer in 1990s. These integrals have many mathematical applications, such as knot invariants, operad theory and formality theorems. In […]

  • Mathematics around Twisted Holography

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Keyou Zeng (CMSA) Title: Mathematics around Twisted Holography Abstract: The holography principle is an important idea in physics and has been widely studied since the 90s. Twisted holography offers a way to simplify physical holography models through the procedure called twisting. In the first part of the talk, I’ll […]

  • Topics in Deep Learning Theory

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Topics in Deep Learning Theory Eli Grigsby

  • Featured

    Periodic pencils of flat connections and their p-curvature

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Colloquium Speaker: Pavel Etingof (MIT) Title: Periodic pencils of flat connections and their p-curvature  A periodic pencil of flat connections on a smooth algebraic variety  is a linear family of flat connections  , where  are local coordinates on  and  are matrix-valued regular functions. A pencil is periodic if it is generically invariant under the shifts  up to isomorphism. I will […]

  • Foundation Seminar

    Ringdown in the SYK model

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Joint BHI/CMSA Foundation Seminar Speaker: Matthew Dodelson (Harvard) Title: Ringdown in the SYK model Abstract: Thermal correlators in large N systems equilibrate at late times, but the precise late-time behavior is unknown away from holographic and free field limits. In this talk I will analyze this problem in the case of the SYK model away from […]

  • Freedman CMSA Seminar

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Freedman CMSA Seminar   2:00-3:30 pm ET Speaker: Mike Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: Detecting hidden structures in linear maps Abstract: I'll consider the problem of detecting spectral features and tensor structures within linear maps both in a quantum and classical contexts. In the quantum context there is the question of whether a Hamiltonian is local, […]