The Harvard CMSA will be hosting a conference on General Relativity from April 4-8, 2022. This conference will be held virtually on Zoom. Registration is required. Webinar Registration A few talks will...
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Are we alone? It would be arrogant to think that we are, given that a quarter of all stars host a habitable Earth-size planet. Upcoming searches will aim to detect...
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Monday, April 4, 2022 Time (ET) Speaker Title/Abstract 9:30 am–10:30 am Pieter Blue, University of Edinburgh, UK (virtual) Title: Linear stability of the Kerr spacetime in the outgoing radiation gauge...
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Melanie Wood will speak on From unique factorization to the shapes of spaces
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Dylan Wilson will speak on (A)History of Shapes
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Tristan Yang, will speak on Lurie’s construction of Lubin-Tate spectra
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Raluca Vlad, will speak on Computational algebraic geometry and the Hilbert scheme
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Matroids are combinatorial abstractions of vector spaces embedded in a coordinate space. Many fundamental questions have been open for these classical objects. We highlight some recent progress that arise from the...
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I will first explain the significance of Thurston's pushforward operator for studying postcritically finite rational maps. I will then present some results due to Buff-Epstein-Koch which relate the eigenvalues of...
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In this talk I first review some of the many appearances of localized degrees of freedom — edge modes — in a variety of physical systems. Edge modes are implicated...
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