CMSA EVENTS
April 4, 2022 - April 8, 2022 9:30 amThe Harvard CMSA will be hosting a conference on General Relativity from April 4-8, 2022. This conference will be held virtually on Zoom. Registration is required. Webinar Registration A few talks will...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
April 4, 2022 7:00 pmAre we alone? It would be arrogant to think that we are, given that a quarter of all stars host a habitable Earth-size planet. Upcoming searches will aim to detect...
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CMSA GENERAL RELATIVITY SEMINAR, SEMINARS
April 4, 2022 - April 8, 2022 12:00 amMonday, April 4, 2022 Time (ET) Speaker Title/Abstract 9:30 am–10:30 am Pieter Blue, University of Edinburgh, UK (virtual) Title: Linear stability of the Kerr spacetime in the outgoing radiation gauge...
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March 31, 2022 9:00 amMatroids are combinatorial abstractions of vector spaces embedded in a coordinate space. Many fundamental questions have been open for these classical objects. We highlight some recent progress that arise from the...
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March 30, 2022 9:30 amIn this talk I first review some of the many appearances of localized degrees of freedom — edge modes — in a variety of physical systems. Edge modes are implicated...
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March 30, 2022 2:00 pmLanguage models typically need to be trained or fine-tuned in order to acquire new knowledge, which involves updating their weights. We instead envision language models that can simply read and...
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March 30, 2022 10:30 amWe show that Polchinski’s equation for exact renormalization group flow is equivalent to the optimal transport gradient flow of a field-theoretic relative entropy. This gives a surprising information-theoretic formulation of the exact renormalization group,...
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CMSA GENERAL RELATIVITY SEMINAR, SEMINARS
March 29, 2022 - April 1, 2022 12:00 amI will present aspects of a theorem, joint with Mihalis Dafermos, Gustav Holzegel and Igor Rodnianski, on the full finite codimension nonlinear asymptotic stability of the Schwarzschild family of black...
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March 24, 2022 9:30 amI will talk about the edge physics of the deconfined quantum phase transition (DQCP) between a spontaneous quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator and a spin-singlet superconductor (SC). Although the bulk...
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CMSA GENERAL RELATIVITY SEMINAR, SEMINARS
March 24, 2022 9:30 amI will talk about my work on the compressible Euler equations. We prove the local-in-time existence the solution of the compressible Euler equations in $3$-D, for the Cauchy data of...
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