CMSA EVENTS
September 28, 2021 10:30 amI will present a four-term exact sequence relating the cohomology of a fibration to the cohomology of an open set obtained by removing the preimage of a general linear section...
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CMSA EVENTS
September 28, 2021 9:30 amI'll discuss a curious correspondence between the m=2 amplituhedron, a 2k-dimensional subset of Gr(k, k+2), and the hypersimplex, an (n-1)-dimensional polytope in R^n. The amplituhedron and hypersimplex are both images...
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CMSA EVENTS
September 29, 2021 11:30 amThe layered honeycomb magnet alpha-RuCl3 orders below 7 K in a zigzag phase in zero field. An in-plane magnetic field H||a suppresses the zigzag order at 7 Tesla, leaving a...
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CMSA EVENTS
September 29, 2021 9:30 amLanglands duality began as a deep and still mysterious conjecture in number theory, before branching into a similarly deep and mysterious conjecture of Beilinson and Drinfeld concerning the algebraic geometry...
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September 30, 2021 1:00 pmLife is a nonequilibrium phenomenon. Metabolism provides a continuous flux of energy that dictates the form and function of many subcellular structures. These subcellular structures are active materials, composed of...
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HARVARD-MIT-BU-BRANDEIS-NORTHEASTERN, COLLOQUIUMS
September 30, 2021 4:30 pmThe field of Geometric Set Theory studies structures on sets of countable objects (typically Polish spaces) by considering virtual objects, typically uncountable sets representing members of the space under consideration...
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October 4, 2021 - October 5, 2021 11:00 amOn October 4th and October 5th, 2021, Harvard CMSA will host its annual Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott. This year’s speaker will be Michael Freedman (Microsoft). The lectures will take place from 11:00am...
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October 4, 2021 8:30 pm*note special day and tme* https://harvard.zoom.us/j/977347126 Password: cmsa
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HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
October 5, 2021 3:00 pmI will report on joint work with Hannah Larson, and joint work in progress with Jim Bryan, in which we try to make sense of Bott periodicity from a naively...
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CMSA EVENTS
October 6, 2021 2:00 pmThe infrastructure built to power the Machine Learning revolution has many other uses beyond Deep Learning. Starting from a general architecture-level overview over the lower levels of Google's TensorFlow machine...
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