SEMINARS, GAUGE-TOPOLOGY-SYMPLECTIC
February 9, 2024 3:30 pmThe perturbed Alexander invariant, defined by Bar-Natan and van der Veen, is an infinite family of polynomial invariants of knots in the three-sphere. The first polynomial, rho_1, is quick to...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
February 9, 2024 3:00 pmWe will look at two ways we can use tools from machine learning to help us with research in combinatorics. First we discuss reinforcement learning, a method that gives us...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
February 9, 2024 12:00 pmModern data science often requires one to consider "nonlinear random matrices," a broad term for random-matrix models whose construction involves a nonlinear function applied entrywise. Such models are typically far...
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SEMINARS, THURSDAY SEMINAR
February 8, 2024 3:30 pmThis semester we will go through the work of Burklund, Hahn, Levy and Schlank on the construction of counterexamples to the telescope conjecture.
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
February 8, 2024 10:30 amThe moduli space M_g of genus g stable curves is perhaps the most studied of all algebraic varieties. Its higher-dimensional generalization is the moduli functor M_{n,v} of n-dimension stable varieties...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 7, 2024 9:00 amThe early 20th century witnessed an explosion of activity, much of it centered at Harvard, on rigorizing the property of ergodicity first proposed by Boltzmann in his 1898 Ergodic Hypothesis...
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SEMINARS, OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD
February 7, 2024 4:30 pmDeep learning has had transformative impacts in many fields including computer vision, computational biology, and dynamics by allowing us to learn functions directly from data. However, there remain many domains...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
February 7, 2024 4:15 pmIn recent years fruitful connections between math and physics have emerged from the study of scattering amplitudes. I will review and put into context some key concepts from this exchange...
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CMSA EVENTS
February 7, 2024 1:00 pmPlease note special time I spent a portion of 2023 working with a team at DeepMind on the “cap set problem” – how large can a subset of (Z/3Z)^n be...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
February 6, 2024 4:00 pmThe talk consists of two independent parts. In the first part, I will talk about a new model to explain the Standard Model flavor hierarchy. Our model is based on...
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