will speak on: "Angular momentum in general relativity" Tuesday, October 5, 2021 9:30 - 10:30 AM *Hong Kong time* 9:30 - 10:30 PM *Eastern Time* Abstract: The definition of angular momentum...
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I will discuss a recently discovered relation between quivers and knots, as well as – more generally – toric Calabi-Yau manifolds. In the context of knots this relation is referred...
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It is conjectured that there are infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by 2. After presenting some motivation, results toward the conjecture, and obstructions to further progress, we will...
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Given a prime number l, the elliptic modular polynomial of level l is an explicit equation for the locus of elliptic curves related by an l-isogeny. These polynomials have a...
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The infrastructure built to power the Machine Learning revolution has many other uses beyond Deep Learning. Starting from a general architecture-level overview over the lower levels of Google's TensorFlow machine...
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I will discuss line defects in d-dimensional Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). In the first part of the talk, I will argue that the ambient CFT places nontrivial constraints on Renormalization...
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In a graph G = (V, E) we consider a system of paths S so that for every two vertices u,v in V there is a unique uv path in...
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I will report on joint work with Hannah Larson, and joint work in progress with Jim Bryan, in which we try to make sense of Bott periodicity from a naively...
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**rescheduled from October 4** https://harvard.zoom.us/j/977347126 Password: cmsa
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On October 4th and October 5th, 2021, Harvard CMSA will host its annual Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott. This year’s speaker will be Michael Freedman (Microsoft). The lectures will take place from 11:00am...
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