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CMSA/MATH Bi-Annual Gathering

CMSA EVENTS

March 24, 2023      4:30 pm

On Friday, March 24th, 4:30PM – 6PM, the CMSA will host the CMSA/MATH Bi-Annual Gathering in the Common Room at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138.
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Generalizing sliceness

Gauge Theory and Topology Seminar

March 24, 2023      3:30 pm
Speaker: Allison Miller - Swarthmore Colelge

A knot in the 3-sphere is said to be smoothly slice if it bounds a smoothly embedded disc in the 4-ball. Sliceness questions are closely related to interesting phenomena in 4-manifold topology:...
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CMSA General Relativity: New Phases of N=4 SYM

CMSA GENERAL RELATIVITY SEMINAR, SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS

March 23, 2023      1:30 pm
Speaker: Prahar Mitra - University of Cambridge

We construct new static solutions to gauged supergravity that, via the AdS/CFT correspondence, are dual to thermal phases in N=4 SYM at finite chemical potential. These solutions dominate the micro-canonical ensemble and...
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Open Neighborhood Seminar: The mathematics of democracy

SEMINARS, OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD

March 22, 2023      4:30 pm
Speaker: Manon Revel - MIT

Is democracy legitimate? It may come as a surprise that mathematicians have contributed to answering this question for a very (very) long time. In this talk, we will explore social...
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