ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS, SEMINARS
January 27, 2022 4:00 pmThe core entropy of a postcritically finite quadratic polynomial is the topological entropy of its restriction to its Hubbard tree. Core entropy is also the logarithm of the largest eigenvalue...
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS, SEMINARS
January 27, 2022 4:00 pmThe core entropy of a postcritically finite quadratic polynomial is the topological entropy of its restriction to its Hubbard tree. Core entropy is also the logarithm of the largest eigenvalue...
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CMSA EVENTS
January 27, 2022 1:00 pmFluids pervade complex systems, ranging from fish schools, to bacterial colonies and nanoparticles in drug delivery. Despite its importance, little is known about the role of fluid mechanics in such...
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In 1975, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes radiate away in a manner that violates quantum theory. Starting in 1997, it was observed that black holes in string theory did...
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CMSA EVENTS
January 26, 2022 2:00 pmCan machine learning be a useful tool for research mathematicians? There are many examples of mathematicians pioneering new technologies to aid our understanding of the mathematical world: using very early...
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CMSA EVENTS
January 25, 2022 9:30 amRecent years have seen tremendous advances in our understanding of perturbative quantum field theory—fueled largely by discoveries (and eventual explanations and exploitation) of shocking simplicity in the mathematical form of...
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In this talk, I will survey the P=W conjecture, which describes certain structures of the cohomology of the moduli space of Higgs bundles on a curve in terms of the...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
January 20, 2022 9:00 amMarkov decision processes are a model for several artificial intelligence problems, such as games (chess, Go…) or robotics. At each timestep, an agent has to choose an action, then receives...
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SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS
January 18, 2022 2:30 pmMetals that do not fit Landau’s famous Fermi liquid paradigm of quasiparticles are plentiful in experiments, but constructing their theoretical description is a major challenge in modern quantum many-body physics. I...
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CMSA EVENTS
January 13, 2022 9:00 amA celebrated theorem of Nash completed by Kuiper implies that every smooth Riemannian surface has a C¹ isometric embedding in the Euclidean 3-space E³. An analogous result, due to Burago...
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