MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
February 18, 2020 3:00 pmThe out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) and entanglement are two physically motivated and widely used probes of the "scrambling" of quantum information, a phenomenon that has drawn great interest recently in quantum...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 19, 2020 10:30 amI will briefly review the pseudogap phenomenology in high Tc cuprate superconductors, especially recent experiments related to charge density waves and pair density waves, and propose a simple theory of...
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NUMBER THEORY
February 19, 2020 3:00 pmWe consider the family of normal octic fields with Galois group $D_4$, ordered by their discriminant. In forthcoming joint work with Arul Shankar, we verify the strong form of Malle's conjecture for this family of...
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SEMINARS
February 19, 2020 4:00 pmCan you use the homotopy type of the space of knots in a simply-connected 4-manifold to distinguish smooth structures? The answer is no, using embedding calculus. I will also give...
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OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD
February 19, 2020 4:30 pmMax Dehn made many remarkable contributions to mathematics, and his name pops up in lots of places, most often in topology, where we have "Dehn surgery", the "Dehn twist", and...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 19, 2020 4:30 pmQuantum money is a cryptographic protocol for quantum computers. A quantum money protocol consists of a quantum state which can be created (by the mint) and verified (by anybody with...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 20, 2020 10:30 amHigher symmetries can emerge at low energies in a topologically ordered state with no symmetry, when some topological excitations have very high energy scales while other topological excitations have low...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 24, 2020 12:00 pmHomological mirror symmetry (HMS) asserts that the Fukaya category of a symplectic manifold is derived equivalent to the category of coherent sheaves on the mirror complex manifold. Without suitable enlargement...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 24, 2020 3:00 pmWe make the case that over the coming decade, computer assisted reasoning will become far more widely used in the mathematical sciences. This includes interactive and automatic theorem verification, symbolic...
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NUMBER THEORY
February 26, 2020 3:00 pmOne of the fundamental challenges in number theory is to understand the intricate way in which the additive and multiplicative structures in the integers intertwine. We will explore a dynamical...
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