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October 28, 2022 9:30 amI will outline the construction of a 2-category associated to a hyperKahler moment map. The construction is based on partial differential equations in one, two and three dimensions, combined with...
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October 26, 2022 9:00 amThe notion of topological phases has dramatically changed our understanding of insulators. There is much to learn about a band insulator beyond the assertion that it has a gap separating...
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October 26, 2022 2:00 pmSpeakers: João Araújo (Mathematics Department, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Michael Kinyon (Department of Mathematics, University of Denver) Bill McCune produced the program EQP that deals with first order logic...
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October 26, 2022 12:30 pmA k-clique in a graph G is a subgraph of G on k vertices in which every pair of vertices is linked by an edge. Cliques are a natural notion...
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October 25, 2022 9:00 amIn two dimensions, one can study quantum field theories on unorientable manifolds by introducing crosscaps. This defines a class of states called crosscap states which share a few similarities with the...
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October 21, 2022 9:30 amI'll introduce the higher-rank Donaldson--Thomas theory for toric Calabi--Yau threefolds, within the setting of equivariant K-theory. I'll present a factorization conjecture motivated by Physics. As a byproduct, I'll discuss some novel properties of...
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October 21, 2022 11:00 amRamsey showed that any graph on N nodes contains a clique or independent set of size (log N)/2. Erdos showed that there exist graphs on N nodes with no clique...
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October 20, 2022 12:00 pmSome of the most dramatic events during human development is the axial elongation of the embryo with concomitant changes in the geometry and composition of the underlying tissues. The posterior part of...
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October 19, 2022 4:00 pmSymmetric mass generation (SMG) is a novel mechanism for massless fermions to acquire a mass via a strong-coupling non-perturbative interaction effect. In contrast to the conventional Higgs mechanism for fermion mass generation,...
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October 19, 2022 2:00 pmLanguage models are showing impressive performance on many natural language tasks, including question-answering. However, language models – like most deep learning models – are black boxes. We cannot be sure...
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