The black hole information paradox — whether information escapes an evaporating black hole or not — remains one of the most longstanding mysteries of theoretical physics. The apparent conflict between...
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The period-index problem is a longstanding question about the complexity of Brauer classes over a field. I will discuss some Hodge-theoretic aspects of the problem for complex function fields, and...
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Given a spatial trivalent graph G, we will first review some of the objects and results from Kronheimer and Mrowka's theory about the instanton invariant J#(G). Motivated by the Tutte...
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While many-body quantum systems can in principle host exotic quantum spin liquid (QSL) states, realizing them as ground states in experiments can be prohibitively difficult. In this talk, we show how non-equilibrium dynamics...
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While many-body quantum systems can in principle host exotic quantum spin liquid (QSL) states, realizing them as ground states in experiments can be prohibitively difficult. In this talk, we show how non-equilibrium dynamics...
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The CMSA will host a series of three 90-minute lectures on the subject of machine learning for protein folding. Thursday, Feb 9, 2023: 3:30–5:00 pm ET Thursday, Feb 16,...
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This seminar will take place in SC 507 at 3:30pm.
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In this talk, I will explain how to describe quasinormal modes with large real frequencies using Penrose limits.To do so, I first recall relevant aspects of the Penrose limit, and its resulting...
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Over the last two decades, major progress has been made in understanding the self-organization principles of active matter. A wide variety of experimental model systems, from self-driven colloids to active...
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In 1902, Painleve introduced a collection of 6 differential equations yielding all second order equations with no movable singularities. It turns out that algebraic solutions to Painleve's sixth equation correspond...
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