CMSA GENERAL RELATIVITY SEMINAR
February 14, 2020 10:30 amJang’s equation is a degenerate elliptic differential equation which plays an important role in the positive mass theorem. In this talk, we describe a high order WENO (Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory)...
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COLLOQUIUMS
February 13, 2020 4:00 pmwill speak on: "Symplectic, or mirrorical, look at the Fargues-Fontaine curve" Homological mirror symmetry describes Lagrangian Floer theory on a torus in terms of vector bundles on the Tate elliptic...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 13, 2020 10:30 amCMSA EVENTS
February 12, 2020 4:30 pmIn game theory, we often use infinite models to represent "limit" settings, such as markets with a large number of agents or games with a long time horizon. Yet many...
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NUMBER THEORY
February 12, 2020 3:00 pmEvery Newton polygon satisfying the Kottwitz conditions occurs on Shimura varieties of PEL-type in positive characteristic (Viehmann/Wedhorn). In most cases, it is not known whether these Newton polygon strata contain...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 12, 2020 10:30 amDIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
February 11, 2020 4:15 pmIn this talk, we discuss how to derive the equivariant SYZ mirror of toric manifolds by counting holomorphic discs. In the case of (semi-)Fano toric manifolds, those mirrors recover Givental's...
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
February 11, 2020 3:30 pmSampling from a classical, thermal distribution is, in general, a computationally hard problem. In particular, standard Monte Carlo algorithms converge slowly close to a phase transition or in the presence...
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HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
February 11, 2020 3:00 pmThe talk will revolve around combinatorial aspects Prym varieties, a class of Abelian varieties that occurs in the presence of double covers. Pryms have deep connections with torsion points of...
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