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  • Poincaré Duality in Quantum Error-Correcting Codes

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

    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 […]

  • 4-manifold topology and collision rank of groups

    Virtual

    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 […]

  • The free field and the Fock space

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Doing mathematics with AI agents: A case study

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

    AI for the Working Mathematician Speaker: Andrew Sutherland, MIT Title: Doing mathematics with AI agents: A case study Abstract: I will describe a project with four human collaborators and a varying cast of […]

  • Recent developments in super geometry

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

    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 […]

  • Unitary extended topological field theories and higher Hermitian objects

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

    Colloquium Speaker: Lukas Müller (LMU Munich) Title: Unitary extended topological field theories and higher Hermitian objects Abstract: Mathematically, topological field theories study the representation theory of manifolds undercutting and gluing. […]

  • Perturbative renormalization

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Nikita Sopenko (CMSA) Title: Perturbative renormalization Abstract: I will discuss the idea of perturbative renormalization in the simplest case of \phi^4 theory […]

  • Nonlinear Schrödinger and Korteweg–de Vries from 4d Chern–Simons theory

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

    Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar Speaker: Roland Bittleston (Harvard University) Title: Nonlinear Schrödinger and Korteweg–de Vries from 4d Chern–Simons theory Abstract: Over the past decade, four-dimensional Chern–Simons theory has emerged […]

  • How complex is S^6?

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani, CMSA Title: How complex is S^6? Abstract: A longstanding problem posed by Hopf in 1948 asks which even-dimensional spheres can be equipped with complex […]