Colloquium Speaker: Anar Akhmedov, University of Minnesota Title: The Geography of Symplectic 4-Manifolds Abstract: The symplectic geography problem, originally posed by J. McCarthy-J. Wolfson and R. Gompf, asks which ordered […]
Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Kason Kunkelmann, Harvard Title: A Rigorous Construction of the Free Quantum Field Abstract: In this talk we will build on last week’s discrete intuition […]
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Xinjie He, UCLA Title: The IEANTN Project: Automation and Mathematical Understanding Abstract: Explicit analytic number theory combines conceptual arguments with extensive bookkeeping and numerical […]
AI for the Working Mathematician Speaker: Tristan Buckmaster, NYU Title: A 'Deep Blue-Kasparov moment for mathematics' Abstract: In this talk I will describe recent work with Levent Alpöge proving the blow-up […]
Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar Speaker: Elliott Gesteau (MIT & CMSA) Title: Worldsheets, baby universes, and asymptotic representation theory Abstract: The string worldsheet can be reinterpreted as a baby universe […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Bowen Yang Title: Poincaré Duality in Quantum Error-Correcting Codes Abstract: Quantum information is fragile, and one of the main tools for protecting it is a family of […]
Freedman Seminar Speaker: Michael Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: The geometry of the Bing Involution Abstract: I’ll discuss a new sharper proof, joint with Mike Starbird that precisely quantifies the stretching […]
Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Tobias Schmidt, Harvard CMSA Title: The free field and the Fock space Abstract: Last time we defined a stochastic process on tempered […]
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 […]
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Yasaman Bahri (Google DeepMind) Title: On the emergence of representational geometry from the statistics of natural language Abstract: Large language models organize their internal […]
AI for the Working Mathematician Speaker: Andrew Sutherland, MIT Title: TBA
Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar Speaker: Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania Title: Recent developments in super geometry Abstract: String theory leads naturally to consideration of Super Riemann surfaces and their […]