SEMINARS
January 22, 2024 3:00 pmIn this talk, I will prove that, under a specific assumption, any semi-direct product of a $p$-group $G$ with a group $\Phi$ of order prime-to-$p$ can appear as the Galois...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
January 2, 2024 - February 2, 2024 12:00 pmCalabi-Yau metrics are central objects in K\"ahler geometry and also string theory. The existence of Calabi-Yau metrics on compact manifolds was answered by Yau in his solution of the Calabi conjecture, but the situation in the non-compact setting...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
December 15, 2023 10:00 amPreserving the symmetries of massless fermions is a well-known challenge in lattice field theory. I'll discuss symmetry-preserving lattice regularizations of 2d QED with one and two flavors of Dirac fermions,...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
December 14, 2023 2:30 pmIn this talk, I will discuss the time reversal invariance of (spin-) Chern-Simons theory in 3 dimensions at both classical and quantum levels. I will show how to obtain a...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
December 12, 2023 3:00 pmFor more information see https://researchseminars.org/seminar/harvard-mit-ag-seminar
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
December 11, 2023 10:30 amThe physics of M-theory and Type IIA strings on a projective nodal CY 3-folds is determined by the geometry of a small resolution, even if the latter is not Kähler....
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
December 7, 2023 1:00 pmFlows in the fluidic interior of living cells can serve biological function or act as signatures of how intracellular forces are exerted. I'll discuss examples of each. One is understanding...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
December 6, 2023 4:15 pmAbstract TBA For more details, see https://math.mit.edu/combin/
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SEMINARS, NUMBER THEORY
December 6, 2023 3:00 pmI will report on joint work in progress with Andrew Booker on the practical implementation of an axiomatic approach to the enumeration of arithmetic L-functions that lie in a certain...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
December 5, 2023 3:00 pmIn characteristic zero, Ueno's conjecture states that if X is a smooth projective variety with Kodaira dimension zero, then its Albanese morphism in an algebraic fiber space and the Kodaira...
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