ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS, SEMINARS
November 3, 2022 4:00 pmThe pentagram map was introduced by Schwartz as a dynamical system on convex polygons in the real projective plane. The map sends a polygon to the shape formed by intersecting...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
November 3, 2022 1:00 pmCollective cell migration drives numerous physiological processes such as tissue morphogenesis, wound healing, tumor progression and cancer invasion. However, how the interplay of mechanical interactions and the modes of collective...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
November 2, 2022 9:00 amElectromagnetic fields in a magneto-electric medium behave in close analogy to photons coupled to the hypothetical elementary particle, the axion. This emergent axion electrodynamics is expected to provide novel ways to detect...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
November 2, 2022 4:15 pmThe wonderful variety of a realizable matroid and its Chow ring have played key roles in solving many long-standing open questions in combinatorics and algebraic geometry. Yet, its $K$-rings are...
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INFORMAL GEOMETRY AND DYNAMICS, SEMINARS
November 2, 2022 4:00 pmThis seminar will be held in Science Center 530 at 4:00pm on Wednesday, November 2nd. Please see the seminar page for more details: https://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/sem
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SEMINARS, NUMBER THEORY
November 2, 2022 3:00 pmRelative trace formulas are central tools in the study of relative functoriality. In many cases of interest, basic stability problems have not previously been addressed. In this talk, I discuss...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
November 2, 2022 12:45 pmSemiconductor bilayer heterostructures provide a remarkable platform for simulating Hubbard models on an emergent lattice defined by moire potential minima. As a hallmark of Hubbard model physics, the Mott insulator...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
November 1, 2022 9:00 amAlthough the equations of motion that govern quantum mechanics are well-known, understanding the emergent macroscopic behavior that arises from a particular set of microscopic interactions remains remarkably challenging. One particularly...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
October 28, 2022 9:30 amI will outline the construction of a 2-category associated to a hyperKahler moment map. The construction is based on partial differential equations in one, two and three dimensions, combined with...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
October 28, 2022 3:00 pmWe discuss recent joint work with Kyle Binder on defining the unipotent fundamental group of tropical varieties. This fundamental group arises from the Tannakian formalism using tropical vector bundles with...
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