MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE, SEMINARS
April 25, 2023 9:30 amAmenability for groups is a concept that was first introduced by von Neumann in 1929 to provide an explanation of the Banach-Tarski paradox. The concept has since been exported to...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
April 25, 2023 3:00 pmIn this talk, we investigate meromorphic differentials on the Riemann sphere with a single zero and several poles of predetermined orders. Our aim is to determine the number of such...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
April 24, 2023 11:00 amTameness is a generalized notion of finiteness that is restricting the geometric complexity of sets and functions. The underlying mathematical foundation lies in tame geometry, which is built from o-minimal structures introduced in...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
April 21, 2023 4:15 pmChip-firing games on finite graphs provide a combinatorial analog of the theory of special divisors on algebraic curves. Each chip configuration determines two numbers: the degree and rank, analogous to...
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Gauge Theory and Topology Seminar, SEMINARS
April 21, 2023 3:30 pmA slope p/q is said to be characterising for a knot K if the oriented homeomorphism type of the manifold obtained by performing Dehn surgery of slope p/q on K...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
April 21, 2023 10:00 amSoon after the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in the cuprates, Anderson proposed a connection to quantum spin liquids. But observations since then have shown that the low temperature phase...
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SEMINARS, THURSDAY SEMINAR
April 20, 2023 3:30 pmSEMINARS, OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD
April 19, 2023 4:30 pmWhat do you picture when you think of exp(z), a group of 2x2 matrices, a smooth map, or infinity itself? In this talk we will discuss the practice of mathematical...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
April 19, 2023 4:15 pmLascoux, Leclerc, and Thibon defined a remarkable family of symmetric functions that are $q$-deformations of products of skew Schur functions. These LLT polynomials $G_{\lambda}(x;q)$ can be indexed by a tuple...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
April 19, 2023 3:30 pmIn their seminal work, Diaconis and Shahshahani used representation theory of the symmetric group to diagonalize the transition matrix of random transpositions. More recently, Dieker and Saliola introduced another technique...
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