SEMINARS, NUMBER THEORY
November 15, 2023 3:00 pmConsider the setting of a smooth variety $S$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$, and an $\ell$-adic local on $S$ which has finite determinant and is geometrically irreducible. Work of Lafforgue proves that such...
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CMSA EVENTS
November 15, 2023 2:00 pmHighly trained transformers are capable of interesting computations as they infer for an input. The exact mechanism that these models use during forward passes is an interesting area of study....
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
November 15, 2023 10:30 amHaldane pseudopotentials were first introduced as Hamiltonian models for the fractional quantum Hall effect, and it has been long expected that they should exhibit the characteristic properties of this exotic...
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OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
November 14, 2023 3:00 pmAgenda: 3:00-4:00 PM EST (GMT -4:00): PhD Admissions Panel 4:00-5:00 PM EST (GMT -4:00): Breakout Session Q&As with PhD Programs We hope you will join us to: --Learn about physical...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
November 14, 2023 3:00 pmGiven a fibration $f\colon X\to Y$ of smooth complex projective with general fiber $F$, the celebrated Iitaka conjecture predicts the inequality $\kappa(K_X)\geq \kappa(K_F)+\kappa(K_Y)$. Recently Chang showed that, under some natural...
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CMSA EVENTS
November 13, 2023 4:30 pmWe will describe appearances of the algebraic phenomena of Koszul duality in the context of boundary conditions and defects in quantum field theory. Primarily motivated by topological string theory, this...
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SEMINARS, SPECIAL SEMINAR
November 13, 2023 3:00 pmIn 2005, Conrey, Farmer, Keating, Rubinstein, and Snaith posed a conjecture on the asymptotics of moments of quadratic L-functions. While this conjecture originates as a question about number fields, it...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
November 13, 2023 10:30 amA determinantal octic double solid is the double cover X of P^3 branched along the degree 8 determinant of a symmetric matrix of homogeneous forms on P^3. These X are...
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SEMINARS, GAUGE-TOPOLOGY-SYMPLECTIC
November 10, 2023 3:30 pmA hyperbolic 3-manifold M carries a flat PSL(2;C)-connection whose Chern-Simons invariant has been much studied since the early 1980's. For example, its real part is the volume of M. Explicit...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
November 9, 2023 4:30 pmLowest Landau level wavefunctions are eigenstates of the Hamiltonian of a charged par- ticle in two dimensions under a uniform magnetic field. They are known to be holomorphic both in real and...
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