MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
January 26, 2021 10:00 amDesigning encoding and decoding circuits to send messages reliably over many uses of a noisy channel is a central problem in communication theory. When studying the optimal transmission rates achievable...
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January 27, 2021 10:30 amAll five-dimensional non-abelian gauge theories have a U(1) global symmetry associated with instantonic particles. I will describe a mixed ’t Hooft anomaly between this and other global symmetries such as the...
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January 27, 2021 3:00 pmKnowledge graphs (KGs), or knowledge bases, are large repositories of facts in the form of triples (subject, relation, object), e.g. (Edinburgh, capital_of, Scotland). Many models have been developed to succinctly...
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MATH TABLE
January 27, 2021 4:30 pmGiven fixed integers a, b, c, which primes can be written as aX^2 + bXY + cY^2 for integers X, Y? This simple question in number theory has generated vast...
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January 27, 2021 9:00 pmTITLE: Discrepancy Theory and Randomized Controlled Trials ABSTRACT: Discrepancy theory tells us that it is possible to partition vectors into sets so that each set looks surprisingly similar to every...
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January 28, 2021 10:30 amI describe a proposal for constructing lattice theories that target certain chiral gauge theories in the continuum limit. The models use reduced staggered fermions and employ site parity dependent Yukawa...
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February 3, 2021 10:30 amHigh-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates remains an unsolved problem because the cuprates start off their lives as Mott insulators in which no organizing principle such a Fermi surface can be invoked to treat ...
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