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CMSA General Relativity Conference

CMSA EVENTS

April 4, 2022 - April 8, 2022      9:30 am

The Harvard CMSA will be hosting a conference on General Relativity from April 4-8, 2022. This conference will be held virtually on Zoom. Registration is required. Webinar Registration A few talks will...
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2022 Yip Lecture: Extraterrestrial Life

SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS

April 4, 2022      7:00 pm
Speaker: Avi Loeb - Harvard University

Are we alone? It would be arrogant to think that we are, given that a quarter of all stars host a habitable Earth-size planet. Upcoming searches will aim to detect...
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CMSA General Relativity Program Conference

CMSA GENERAL RELATIVITY SEMINAR, SEMINARS

April 4, 2022 - April 8, 2022      12:00 am

Monday, April 4, 2022 Time (ET) Speaker Title/Abstract 9:30 am–10:30 am Pieter Blue, University of Edinburgh, UK (virtual) Title: Linear stability of the Kerr spacetime in the outgoing radiation gauge...
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Algebraic Dynamics Seminar: Eigenvalues of the Thurston Operator

ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS, SEMINARS

March 31, 2022      4:00 pm
Speaker: Rafael Saavedra - Harvard University

I will first explain the significance of Thurston's pushforward operator for studying postcritically finite rational maps. I will then present some results due to Buff-Epstein-Koch which relate the eigenvalues of...
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CMSA Colloquium: Edge Modes and Gravity

SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS

March 30, 2022      9:30 am
Speaker: Rob Leigh - UIUC

In this talk I first review some of the many appearances of localized degrees of freedom — edge modes —  in a variety of physical systems. Edge modes are implicated...
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