SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
December 7, 2022 3:30 pmThe Poisson summation formula says that the countable sum of exp(int), over all integers n, vanishes as long as t is not an integer multiple of 2 pi. Can we...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
December 7, 2022 2:00 pmThe current "Transformer era" of deep learning is marked by the emergence of combinatorial and algorithmic reasoning capabilities in large sequence models, leading to dramatic advances in natural language understanding, program...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
December 7, 2022 10:00 amCavity modification of material properties and phenomena is a novel research field motivated by the advances in strong light-matter interactions~[1]. For condensed matter systems it has been demonstrated experimentally that...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
December 6, 2022 9:00 amWe explore generalized global symmetries in theories of physics beyond the Standard Model. Theories of Z′ bosons generically contain 'non-invertible' chiral symmetries, whose presence indicates a natural paradigm to break...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
December 6, 2022 3:00 pmI will discuss various aspects of the geometry of Quot schemes of torsion quotients on a smooth projective curve. I will describe in particular results on the cohomology of tautological...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
December 5, 2022 9:00 amThe Motivated by the higher Chern bands of twisted graphene multilayers, we consider flat bands with arbitrary Chern number C with ideal quantum geometry. While C>1 bands differ from Landau...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
December 5, 2022 11:00 am In this talk I will discuss the application of the Cobordism Conjecture to type IIB supergravity with non-trivial duality bundle. Calculating the relevant bordism groups we find that they are...
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SEMINARS, OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD
November 30, 2022 4:30 pmBraids on a given number of strands n can be concatenated and thereby form a group Bn. The latter possesses two different incarnations: it can be presented on a simple...
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INFORMAL GEOMETRY AND DYNAMICS, SEMINARS
November 30, 2022 4:00 pmThis seminar will be held in Science Center 530 at 4:00pm on Wednesday, November 30th. Please see the seminar page for more details: https://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/sem
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
November 30, 2022 3:00 pmConsider the problem of realizing a target probability measure as a push forward, by a transport map, of a given source measure. Typically one thinks about the target measure as...
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