CMSA EVENTS
February 17, 2021 10:30 amWe will discuss an elementary way of detecting some global anomalies from the way the symmetry algebra is realized on the torus Hilbert space of the anomalous theory, give a...
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HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
February 16, 2021 3:00 pmGiven a smooth plane curve C defined over an arbitrary field k, we say that C is transverse-free if it has no transverse lines defined over k. If k is...
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
February 16, 2021 10:00 amConfusingly for the uninitiated, experts in infinite-dimensional category theory make use of different definitions of an ∞-category, and theorems in the ∞-categorical literature are often proven "analytically", in reference to...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 16, 2021 1:30 pmPrediction algorithms assign numbers to individuals that are popularly understood as individual “probabilities” — e.g., what is the probability of 5-year survival after cancer diagnosis? — and which increasingly form...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 15, 2021 10:00 amIt is natural to study automorphisms of hypersurfaces in projective spaces. In this talk, I will discuss a new approach to determine all possible orders of automorphisms of smooth hypersurfaces...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 11, 2021 10:30 amGapped phases of matter, including topological and fracton phases, are deformation classes of gapped quantum systems, and exhibit a rich array of phenomena. An interesting generalization is to consider parametrized...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 10, 2021 3:00 pmAutoregressive language models pretrained on large corpora have been successful at solving downstream tasks, even with zero-shot usage. However, there is little theoretical justification for their success. This paper considers...
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NUMBER THEORY
February 10, 2021 3:00 pmZoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/99334398740 Password: The order of the permutation group on 9 elements.
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CMSA EVENTS
February 10, 2021 10:30 amThe strange metal regime is one of the most prominent features of the cuprate phase diagram but yet has remained amongst the most mysterious. Seemingly similar metallic behavior is seen...
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HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
February 9, 2021 3:00 pmThe problem of determining the birational nature of the moduli space of curves of genus g has received constant attention in the last century and inspired a lot of development in moduli...
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