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CMSA Math Science Literature Lecture Series

November 13, 2020      8:00 am
Speaker: Edward Witten

TITLE: Knot Invariants From Gauge Theory in Three, Four, and Five Dimensions ABSTRACT: I will explain connections between a sequence of theories in two, three, four, and five dimensions and...
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Positive solutions of sparse polynomial systems

November 12, 2020      4:30 pm
Speaker: Alicia Dickenstein

A multidimensional polynomial system is said to be sparse when the monomials present in the polynomials are fixed a priori. I will present classic and recent upper and lower bounds...
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A new perspective on the 2D Toda-RS correspondence

November 10, 2020      8:00 pm
Speaker: Matej Penciak

The 2D Toda system consists of a complicated set of infinitely many coupled PDEs in infinitely many variables that is known to assemble into an infinite-dimensional integrable system. Krichever and...
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Learning to Unknot

November 10, 2020      10:00 am
Speaker: Sergei Gukov

How does a child learn to speak, without prior direct communication, nor with having dictionary to translate words from another language? How do we learn to play chess, with no...
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