SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
September 26, 2022 9:00 amIn the talk I will discuss the possibility and the obstructions of finding non-supersymmetric dualities for 4d gauge theories. I will review consistency conditions based on Weingarten inequalities, anomalies and...
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CMSA EVENTS
September 23, 2022 4:30 pmCMSA Fall Gathering will be held on September 23rd from 4:30-6:00pm. All CMSA and Math Affiliates Invited! Hot dogs, popcorn, and hot cider courtesy of Dylan and Pete's.
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Gauge Theory and Topology Seminar, SEMINARS
September 23, 2022 3:30 pmThis talk is on work in preparation with Ali Daemi. I will explain why Kim Froyshov's mod 2 instanton invariant q_3 gives information about indefinite 4-manifolds: if H_1(W;Z/2) = 0...
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS, SEMINARS
September 22, 2022 4:00 pmUnderstanding the geometry of The Mandelbrot set, which records dynamical information about every quadratic polynomial, has been a central task in holomorphic dynamics over the past forty years. Near parabolic...
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CMSA GENERAL RELATIVITY SEMINAR, SEMINARS
September 22, 2022 10:30 amFew notions within the realm of mathematical physics succeed in capturing the imagination and inspiring awe as well as that of a black hole. First encountered in the Schwarzschild solution,...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
September 21, 2022 9:00 amWe generalize the flux insertion argument due to Laughlin, Niu-Thouless-Tao-Wu, and Avron-Seiler-Zograf to the case of fractional quantum Hall states on a higher-genus surface. We propose this setting as a...
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INFORMAL GEOMETRY AND DYNAMICS, SEMINARS
September 21, 2022 4:00 pmThis seminar will be held in Science Center 530 at 4:00pm on Wednesday, September 21st. Please see the seminar page for more details: https://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/sem/.
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
September 21, 2022 2:00 pmFor more information, please see: https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/tech-in-math/
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
September 21, 2022 12:30 pmA metric graph is a graph---a finite network of vertices and edges---together with a prescription of a positive real length on each edge. I'll use the term ``moduli space of...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
September 21, 2022 11:00 amThe adaptive immune system is able to learn from past experiences to better fit an unforeseen future. This is made possible by a diverse and dynamic repertoire of cells expressing unique antigen...
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