CMSA EVENTS
February 19, 2020 5:15 pmQuantum money is a cryptographic protocol for quantum computers. A quantum money protocol consists of a quantum state which can be created (by the mint) and verified (by anybody with...
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OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD
February 19, 2020 4:30 pmMax Dehn made many remarkable contributions to mathematics, and his name pops up in lots of places, most often in topology, where we have "Dehn surgery", the "Dehn twist", and...
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SEMINARS
February 19, 2020 4:00 pmCan you use the homotopy type of the space of knots in a simply-connected 4-manifold to distinguish smooth structures? The answer is no, using embedding calculus. I will also give...
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NUMBER THEORY
February 19, 2020 3:00 pmWe consider the family of normal octic fields with Galois group $D_4$, ordered by their discriminant. In forthcoming joint work with Arul Shankar, we verify the strong form of Malle's conjecture for this family of...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 19, 2020 10:30 amI will briefly review the pseudogap phenomenology in high Tc cuprate superconductors, especially recent experiments related to charge density waves and pair density waves, and propose a simple theory of...
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DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
February 18, 2020 4:15 pmIn 2008, Christodoulou achieved a major breakthrough in the context of mathematical general relativity in being able to form trapped surfaces dynamically from initial data for the Einstein vacuum system....
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
February 18, 2020 3:00 pmThe out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) and entanglement are two physically motivated and widely used probes of the "scrambling" of quantum information, a phenomenon that has drawn great interest recently in quantum...
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CMSA GENERAL RELATIVITY SEMINAR
February 14, 2020 10:30 amJang’s equation is a degenerate elliptic differential equation which plays an important role in the positive mass theorem. In this talk, we describe a high order WENO (Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory)...
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COLLOQUIUMS
February 13, 2020 4:00 pmwill speak on: "Symplectic, or mirrorical, look at the Fargues-Fontaine curve" Homological mirror symmetry describes Lagrangian Floer theory on a torus in terms of vector bundles on the Tate elliptic...
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