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  • CMSA Q&A Seminar: James Eldred Pascoe, Drexel University

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: James Eldred Pascoe, Drexel University Title: (What is) The tracial fundamental group and free universal monodromy? Abstract: We introduce the tracial fundamental group to classify the analytic continuation of functions that are locally behave like the trace of natural matrix valued functions. While globally defined natural matrix-valued functions (known as free […]

  • Freedman Seminar: Mattie Ji, Penn and Jeongwan Haah, Stanford

    Hybrid

    Freedman Seminar Speakers: Mattie Ji (Penn) and Jeongwan Haah (Stanford) Mattie Ji Title: Quantum Cellular Automata via Algebraic K-Theory Abstract: Algebraic K-theory, on a very high level, is the study of how to break apart and assemble objects linearly, which makes the field amenable to classification questions. In this work, we apply this methodology to study […]

  • Exotic R^4’s are unclassifiable

    Virtual

    Freedman Seminar Speaker: Robert Gompf, UT Austin Title: Exotic R^4's are unclassifiable Abstract: We will use descriptive set theory to show that there is a precise sense in which exotic R^4's are unclassifiable. For other open manifolds, we can reach a much higher level of unclassifiability. This is work in progress with Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos.

  • Compression Is All You Need: Modeling Mathematics

    Virtual

    Freedman Seminar Speaker: Mike Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: Compression Is All You Need: Modeling Mathematics Abstract: The talk will exposit a recent eponymous arXiv posting with coauthors Vitaly Aksenov, Eve Bodnia, and Mike Mulligan. The approach is to think like a physicist and model a seemingly complex bit of reality: mathematics, by a simple toy […]

  • 4-manifold topology and collision rank of groups

    Virtual

    Freedman Seminar Speaker: Slava Krushkal (University of Virginia) Title: 4-manifold topology and collision rank of groups Abstract: I will introduce collision rank and show that groups of finite collision rank are good in the sense of topological 4-manifold theory. Finitely generated groups of collision rank two are shown to exist outside the class of subexponentially […]

  • CMSA Q&A Seminar: Shaoyun Bai, MIT

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Shaoyun Bai, MIT Title: What is a virtual fundamental cycle? (ICM Series: On the work of John Pardon) Abstract: One of Pardon’s important contribution to symplectic topology is a new approach to constructing virtual fundamental cycles/chains for moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic maps. As a former PhD student of John, my own […]

  • CMSA Q&A Seminar: Discussion on OpenAI Math Papers

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Title: Discussion on OpenAI Math Papers Abstract: You have likely seen that OpenAI released 722 math papers. For the Q&A meeting on Wednesday October 14, we would like to gather to discuss them and hear informal, short presentations (say 10 minutes maximum) from anyone who is engaging with at least one of the […]

  • What is a self-concordant barrier function?, and what is an accelerated first-order algorithm?  (ICM Series: On the work of Yurii Nesterov)

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Robert M. Freund, MIT Title: What is a self-concordant barrier function?, and what is an accelerated first-order algorithm?  (ICM Series: On the work of Yurii Nesterov) Abstract: The two most impactful contributions of Nesterov on both theory and computation in optimization are (i) self-concordant barriers for interior-point methods in convex optimization, and (ii) […]