SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
November 15, 2023 10:30 amHaldane pseudopotentials were first introduced as Hamiltonian models for the fractional quantum Hall effect, and it has been long expected that they should exhibit the characteristic properties of this exotic...
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November 13, 2023 4:30 pmWe will describe appearances of the algebraic phenomena of Koszul duality in the context of boundary conditions and defects in quantum field theory. Primarily motivated by topological string theory, this...
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November 13, 2023 10:30 amA determinantal octic double solid is the double cover X of P^3 branched along the degree 8 determinant of a symmetric matrix of homogeneous forms on P^3. These X are...
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November 9, 2023 4:30 pmLowest Landau level wavefunctions are eigenstates of the Hamiltonian of a charged par- ticle in two dimensions under a uniform magnetic field. They are known to be holomorphic both in real and...
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November 9, 2023 1:00 pmNucleus of a living cell houses a cell genome - a polymer called chromatin, which is a functional form of DNA. It is very long, e.g., 2 meters long for...
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November 8, 2023 2:00 pmRecent progress in game-playing AI has prompted the question: how might we create AIs that master the game of mathematics? Modern interactive theorem provers like Lean or Coq provide most...
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November 7, 2023 4:30 pmWe study defects in symmetry breaking phases, such as domain walls, vortices, and hedgehogs. In particular, we focus on the localized gapless excitations that sometimes occur at the cores of...
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CMSA GENERAL RELATIVITY SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
November 7, 2023 11:00 am Relativistic fluids are known to form shocks during their evolution from near-homogeneous initial data. In expanding spacetimes, shock formation is suppressed, if the expansion is sufficiently strong. We refer to...
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November 6, 2023 4:30 pmIn 1932, motivated by questions in statistical and celestial mechanics, von Neumann proposed classifying the statistical behavior of dynamical systems. In the 1960's, motivated by work of Poincaré, Smale proposed...
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November 6, 2023 10:30 amIn mirror symmetry, the dual object to a Fano variety is a Landau-Ginzburg model. Broadly, a Landau-Ginzburg model is quasi-projective variety Y with a superpotential function w, but not all...
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