SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
February 10, 2022 1:00 pmMy lab is interested in the active and adaptive materials that underlie control of cell shape. This has centered around understanding force transmission and sensing within the actin cytoskeleton. I...
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CMSA GENERAL RELATIVITY SEMINAR, SEMINARS
February 9, 2022 8:00 pmSuperstring theory as we know it started from the discovery by Green and Schwarz in 1984 that the perturbative anomalies of heterotic strings miraculously cancel. But the cancellation of global...
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SEMINARS, NUMBER THEORY
February 9, 2022 3:00 pmGrothendieck's Section Conjecture posits that the set of rational points on a smooth projective curve Y of genus at least two should be equal to a certain "section set" defined purely in...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
February 9, 2022 2:00 pmOver the past several years, attention mechanisms (primarily in the form of the Transformer architecture) have revolutionized deep learning, leading to advances in natural language processing, computer vision, code synthesis, protein structure prediction,...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
February 8, 2022 9:30 amStrominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture is one of the guiding principles in mirror symmetry, which not only predicts the geometric structures of Calabi-Yau manifolds but also provides a recipe for mirror construction. Besides mirror...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
February 8, 2022 9:00 amI will talk about work to uncover connections between invariant theory and maximum likelihood estimation. I will describe how norm minimization over a torus orbit is equivalent to maximum likelihood...
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There are several properties of closed geodesics which are proven using its Hamiltonian formulation, which has no analogue for minimal surfaces. I will talk about some recent progress in proving...
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SEMINARS, HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
February 8, 2022 3:00 pmTheoretical computer science has given rise to new, exciting questions in algebraic geometry and representation theory. In this talkI will focus on the problem of matrix multiplication. It is generally conjectured by...
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The (tree) amplituhedron was introduced in 2013 by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka in their study of N=4 SYM scattering amplitudes. A central conjecture in the field was to prove that the m=4...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
February 3, 2022 9:00 amSlice a triply periodic wooden sculpture along an irrational plane. If you ink the cut surface and press it against a page, the pattern you print will be quasiperiodic. Patterns...
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