HARVARD-MIT-BU-BRANDEIS-NORTHEASTERN, COLLOQUIUMS
October 7, 2021 4:30 pmFor a fixed prime p and large n, what is the largest size of a subset of \mathbb{F}_p^n which does not contain a non-trivial solution to some given linear equation...
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CMSA EVENTS
October 7, 2021 10:30 amI will discuss some perspectives on symmetry coming from the study of topological defects in quantum field theory. I will argue that we should take topological defects themselves to define...
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October 7, 2021 10:00 pmA gauged linear sigma model (GLSM) consists roughly of a complex vector space V, a group G acting on V, a character \theta of G, and a G-invariant function w...
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DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
October 6, 2021 9:30 pmwill speak on: "Angular momentum in general relativity" Tuesday, October 5, 2021 9:30 - 10:30 AM *Hong Kong time* 9:30 - 10:30 PM *Eastern Time* Abstract: The definition of angular momentum...
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October 6, 2021 9:30 amI will discuss a recently discovered relation between quivers and knots, as well as – more generally – toric Calabi-Yau manifolds. In the context of knots this relation is referred...
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OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD
October 6, 2021 4:30 pmIt is conjectured that there are infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by 2. After presenting some motivation, results toward the conjecture, and obstructions to further progress, we will...
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SEMINARS, NUMBER THEORY
October 6, 2021 3:00 pmGiven a prime number l, the elliptic modular polynomial of level l is an explicit equation for the locus of elliptic curves related by an l-isogeny. These polynomials have a...
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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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CMSA EVENTS
October 6, 2021 10:30 amI will discuss line defects in d-dimensional Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). In the first part of the talk, I will argue that the ambient CFT places nontrivial constraints on Renormalization...
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October 5, 2021 9:30 amIn a graph G = (V, E) we consider a system of paths S so that for every two vertices u,v in V there is a unique uv path in...
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