CMSA Q&A Seminar: Thomas Grimm
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Thomas Grimm, Utrecht & CMSA Topic: What is o-minimality and what is it good for?
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DMFT, Two Point Correlations of Resolvents, and Applications to Machine Learning Theory
Member Seminar Speaker: Blake Bordelon Title: DMFT, Two Point Correlations of Resolvents, and Applications to Machine Learning Theory Abstract: 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 […]
The Rozansky-Witten field theory in the functorial TQFT formalism
Member Seminar Speaker: Lorenzo Riva Title: The Rozansky-Witten field theory in the functorial TQFT formalism Abstract: 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 […]
Local Donaldson-Scaduto conjecture
Member Seminar Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani Title: Local Donaldson-Scaduto conjecture Abstract: 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 […]
Sections of fibrations onto curves in characteristic p>0
Member Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio Title: Sections of fibrations onto curves in characteristic p>0 Abstract: 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 […]
Top-Down Perspectives on Symmetry Theories
Member Seminar Speaker: Max Hubner Title: Top-Down Perspectives on Symmetry Theories Abstract: 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 […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Alexei Borodin
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Alexei Borodin (MIT) Topic: Connections between physics and probability
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Noah Golowich
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Noah Golowich (MIT) Topic: What is length generalization in large language models?
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Eric Maskin
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Common Room, CMSA
20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Eric Maskin, Harvard University Topic: The Mathematics of Voting
The Competition Complexity of Dynamic Pricing
Member Seminar Speaker: Tomer Ezra Title: The Competition Complexity of Dynamic Pricing Abstract: One of the most fundamental questions in mechanism design is the tradeoff between simplicity and optimality. A canonical example of this tradeoff is competition complexity in auctions, which quantifies how many additional bidders are needed for a simple mechanism to (approximately) match the revenue of the optimal mechanism. In […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Dan Freed
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed, Harvard University Topic: What are spectra (in homotopy theory)?
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Puskar Mondal
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal, Harvard CMSA Topic: What is the positive energy theorem?