MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
December 22, 2020 10:00 amImagine that we are in Arthur's office, and I will give an informal lecture. This lecture has no main theme; instead I will talk about some insightful examples and fresh...
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
December 15, 2020 10:00 amA two-dimensional rotating shallow-water model describes a layer of water, in guise of oceans covering the Earth. It is formally analogue to a Schrödinger equation where the tools from topological...
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
December 8, 2020 10:00 amIn this talk, I will present a new way to look at symmetry. We show that symmetry can be viewed as a non-invertible gravitational anomaly, and a non-invertible gravitational anomaly...
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
December 1, 2020 10:00 amWe present recent progress on studies of 2-dimensional topological order in terms of tensor networks and its connections to subfactor theory. We explain how Drinfel'd centers and higher relative commutants...
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
November 17, 2020 10:00 amConsider a free group and its group von Neumann algebra A. Finding criteria on the boundedness or complete boundedness of multipliers on the Lp(A) is a major subject of analysis on...
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
November 10, 2020 10:00 amHow does a child learn to speak, without prior direct communication, nor with having dictionary to translate words from another language? How do we learn to play chess, with no...
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
November 10, 2020 10:00 amHow does a child learn to speak, without prior direct communication, nor with having dictionary to translate words from another language? How do we learn to play chess, with no...
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
November 3, 2020 10:00 amIn this talk, I present recent joint work with Tian Lan, Xiao-Gang Wen, Zhi-Hao Zhang and Hao Zheng (arXiv:2003.08898). We propose a mathematical theory of symmetry protected trivial (SPT) order,...
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
November 3, 2020 10:00 amIn this talk, I present recent joint work with Tian Lan, Xiao-Gang Wen, Zhi-Hao Zhang and Hao Zheng (arXiv:2003.08898). We propose a mathematical theory of symmetry protected trivial (SPT) order,...
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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
October 27, 2020 10:00 amAn important open problem is whether there exists a finite quantum group which cannot be cooked up from (classical) finite groups. A finite purely quantum group would be a finite dimensional Hopf C*-algebra (Kac algebra) K...
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