CMSA EVENTS
October 7, 2021 10:30 amI will discuss some perspectives on symmetry coming from the study of topological defects in quantum field theory. I will argue that we should take topological defects themselves to define...
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October 7, 2021 10:00 pmA gauged linear sigma model (GLSM) consists roughly of a complex vector space V, a group G acting on V, a character \theta of G, and a G-invariant function w...
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October 6, 2021 9:30 amI will discuss a recently discovered relation between quivers and knots, as well as – more generally – toric Calabi-Yau manifolds. In the context of knots this relation is referred...
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October 6, 2021 2:00 pmThe infrastructure built to power the Machine Learning revolution has many other uses beyond Deep Learning. Starting from a general architecture-level overview over the lower levels of Google's TensorFlow machine...
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October 6, 2021 10:30 amI will discuss line defects in d-dimensional Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). In the first part of the talk, I will argue that the ambient CFT places nontrivial constraints on Renormalization...
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October 5, 2021 9:30 amIn a graph G = (V, E) we consider a system of paths S so that for every two vertices u,v in V there is a unique uv path in...
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October 4, 2021 8:30 pm**rescheduled from October 4** https://harvard.zoom.us/j/977347126 Password: cmsa
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October 4, 2021 - October 5, 2021 11:00 amOn October 4th and October 5th, 2021, Harvard CMSA will host its annual Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott. This year’s speaker will be Michael Freedman (Microsoft). The lectures will take place from 11:00am...
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September 30, 2021 1:00 pmLife is a nonequilibrium phenomenon. Metabolism provides a continuous flux of energy that dictates the form and function of many subcellular structures. These subcellular structures are active materials, composed of...
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September 29, 2021 9:30 amLanglands duality began as a deep and still mysterious conjecture in number theory, before branching into a similarly deep and mysterious conjecture of Beilinson and Drinfeld concerning the algebraic geometry...
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