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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CMSA EVENTS
February 9, 2021 11:30 amThe point location problem is a fundamental question in computational geometry. It asks, given a known partition of R^d into cells by n hyperplanes and an unknown input point x,...
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
February 9, 2021 10:00 amI will examine the many-body localization (MBL) phase transition in one-dimensional quantum systems with quenched randomness. Having demonstrated the existence of the MBL phase at strong disorder, under a level-statistics...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 8, 2021 10:00 amK-theoretic Gromov-Witten invariants of smooth projective varieties have been introduced by YP Lee, using the Euler characteristic of a virtual structure sheaf. In particular, they are integers. In this talk,...
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
February 5, 2021 10:00 amI will discuss applications of Vojta's conjecture to some problems in arithmetic dynamics, concerning the growth of sizes of coordinates of orbits, greatest common divisors among coordinates, and prime factors of...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 4, 2021 10:30 am4d N=1 super Yang-Mills has multiple gapped vacua arising from the spontaneously broken discrete R-symmetry. Therefore, the theory admits stable domain walls interpolating between any two vacua, but it is...
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OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD
February 3, 2021 4:30 pmWe will explore the idea of universality in probability theory, as seen in the central limit theorem, in which wide and varied input distributions can all give identical limiting outputs....
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