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  • Can Math Mend a Broken Heart?

    CMSA Q&A Seminar
    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Wes Cain, Harvard Title: Can Math Mend a Broken Heart? Abstract: I will discuss an abnormal cardiac rhythm known as T-wave alternans, and a simple feedback control method (time-delay autosynchronization, TDAS) that has been used successfully to suppress alternans experimentally. Variants of TDAS have been used for chaos control and prevention […]

  • The work of Jacob Tsimerman (ICM series)

    CMSA Q&A Seminar
    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Aaron Landesman (Harvard CMSA) Title: The work of Jacob Tsimerman (ICM series) Abstract: I will discuss some basics of the Fields Medal work of Jacob Tsimerman. Some of his key contributions come toward the André-Oort conjecture, algebraicity of period maps, and arithmetic statistics.