Mathematical Picture Language Seminar

This academic year, a seminar series in mathematical physics will be held in Jefferson 356 on Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m. Arthur Jaffe and Zhengwei Liu commenced the series with a talk introducing the Mathematical Picture Language Project on September 5th.

2017-2018 Mathematical Physics Seminars

Jefferson 356, 4:00 p.m.
 

Tuesday, April 10 2018 Zhiwei Yun, MIT

"Hitchin moduli spaces in automorphic representation theory"

 

Tuesday, April 3 2018 Marcel Bischoff, Ohio University

"Quantum Symmetries and Conformal Nets"

 

Tuesday, March 27 2018 Feng Xu, UC Riverside

"On questions around the reconstruction program"

 

Friday March 23 2018 Wei Zhang, MIT

Special day and time: 3:00 p.m. Jefferson 250

"Superpositivity of L-functions and 'completion of square'"

 

Tuesday, March 20 2018 Jürg Fröhlich, ETH Zurich

"Physics in 2D – from the Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition to Topological Insulators"

 

Tuesday, February 27 2018 Hans Wenzl, UC San Diego

"Coideal Algebras and Subfactors"

 

Friday February 23 2018 Xinqi Gong, Renin University in China

Special day and time: 3:00 p.m. Jefferson 250

"Mathematical Intelligence Applications in Bio-medical Problems"

 

Tuesday, February 13 2018 Nicholas Early, University of Minnesota

"Canonical bases for permutohedral plates"

 

Friday, February 9 2018 Boqing Xue,  Chinese Academy of Sciences

Special day and time: 10:00 a.m. Jefferson 453

"A basic introduction to the Riemann hypothesis"

 

Tuesday, February 6 2018 Jacob Shapiro, ETH Zurich

"Bulk-Edge Duality and Complete Localization for Disordered Chiral Chains"

 

Friday, February 2 2018 Yunxiang Ren, Tennessee State University

Special day and time: 4:00 p.m. Jefferson 250

"A new skein theory for One-Way Yang-Baxter planar algebras"

 

Tuesday, January 30 2018 Kaifeng Bu, Harvard University and Zhejiang University

"de Finetti Theorems for Braiding Parafermions"

 

Tuesday, January 23 2018 Bin Gui, Vanderbilt University

"A unitary tensor product theory for unitary vertex operator algebra modules"

 

Tuesday, January 16 2018 Marco de Renzi, University of Paris 7

"Renormalized Hennings Invariants and TQFTs"

 

Tuesday, November 14 2017 Dennis Gaitsgory, Harvard University

"Higher representation theory"


Tuesday, November 7 2017 Liming Ge, UNH and Chinese Academy of Science
"From Riemann and Hilbert to Kadison-Singer"


Tuesday, October 31 2017 Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Station Q
"Reconstructing chiral CFTs/VOAs from 2D TQFTs/MTCs"


Tuesday, October 24 2017 No Seminar


Tuesday, October 17 2017 No Seminar


Thursday, October 12 2017 Yasu Kawahigashi, University of Tokyo
Special day and time: 2:00 p.m. Jefferson 453
“From vertex operator algebras to operator algebras and back”


Tuesday, October 10 2017 Michael Hopkins, Harvard University

"Reflection Positivity and Invertible Topological Phases"

 

Tuesday, October 3 2017 Alina Vdovina, Newcastle University, UK
“Buildings, surfaces and quaternions” 

Tuesday, September 26 Jinsong Wu, Harvard University

“The Brascamp-Lieb Inequalities for Planar Algebras”

 

Tuesday, September 19 2017

No Seminar, Brian Greene Public Lecture

 

Tuesday, September 12 2017 William Norledge, Harvard University

“A Construction of Lattices in Buildings”
 

Tuesday, September 5 2017 Arthur Jaffe and Zhengwei Liu, Harvard University

“An Introduction to the Picture Language Project”

This spring semester, starting February 5, 2019, seminars will generally be held in Jefferson 356 on Tuesdays at 3:00 p.m. This past fall semester, starting September 4, 2018, seminars were generally in Jefferson 356 on Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m.

Exceptions are noted.

Tuesday, April 30 2019 Shawn Cui, Virginia Tech
"Four Dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theories from G-crossed Braided Categories"

Tuesday, April 23 2019 Yi-Hong Zhang, Tsinghua University
"Quantum many-body computation on a small quantum computer"

Tuesday, April 16 2019 Emil Prodan, Yeshiva University
"Pushing index theorems into the Sobolev"

Tuesday, April 9 2019 Claus Koestler, University College Cork
"Markovianity as a distribution symmetry"
Special Extra Seminar, Tuesday, April 9 2019 4:30PM Alina Vdovina, Newcastle University
"Higher dimensional picture languages"

Tuesday, April 2 2019 Mikael Rordam and Magdalena Elena Musat, University of Copenhagen
3PM : Mikael Roradam, "Highlights of the classification of simple nuclear C*-algebras"
4PM: Magdalena Elena Musat,  "Quantum correlations, factorizable channels, and the Connes Embedding Problem"

Tuesday, March 26 2019 Jinsong Wu, Harbin Institute of Technology
"Fourier Analysis on Fusion Rings"

Tuesday, March 12 2019 Youwei Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China
"A review of the surface code from an experimental perspective"

Tuesday, March 5 2019 Kaifeng Bu, Harvard and Zhejiang University
"Efficient classical simulation of Clifford circuits with nonstabilizer input states"

Tuesday, February 26 2019 Fei Wei, Harvard
"Entropy of arithmetic functions and arithmetic compactifications"

Tuesday, February 12 2019 Liang Kong, Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology 
"A unified mathematical theory of gapped and gapless boundaries of 2d topological orders"

Tuesday, February 5 2019 Zhengwei Liu, Harvard
"Quantum Error Correcting Codes"

Tuesday, November 13 2018 William Norledge Pennsylvania State University
"The adjoint braid arrangement as a free Lie algebra in species via the Steinmann relations"

Friday, November 9 2018 Xun Gao Harvard University and Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Special Day, Special Time: Now on Friday 3:30PM, Jefferson 256
"Pictorial language in quantum computation"

Tuesday, October 30 2018 Chunlan Jiang Hebei Normal University
"Similarity Invariants of Geometric Operators"

Tuesday, October 23 2018 Shamil Shakirov Harvard University
"Rational integrable systems associated with higher genus surfaces"

Tuesday, October 16 2018 Christoph Gorgulla, Harvard Medical School
"A quantum mechanical free energy method based on Feynman's path integral formulation"

Tuesday, October 9 2018 Jean-Bernard Zuber, Sorbonne Université
"ADE and all that, 30 years after"

Friday, October 5 2018 Semyon Dyatlov, University of California, Berkeley and MIT
Special Day, Extra Seminar: Friday 4:30PM
Special Location: Jefferson 453
"Fractal uncertainty principle and quantum chaos"

Tuesday, October 2 2018 Victor Kac, MIT
Special Time: 5:00 PM
"Multiplicative Poisson vertex algebras and differential-difference Hamiltonian equations"

Tuesday, September 25 2018 Pavel Etingof, MIT 
"New symmetric tensor categories in positive characteristic"

Tuesday, September 18 2018 Liming Ge, UNH and Chinese Academy of Sciences
"On Multiplicative Fourier Transform"

Friday, September 14 2018 Zhengwei Liu, Harvard
Special Time and Location: Infinite Dimensional Analysis Seminar.
Friday, September 14 at 3pm in MIT Room 2-136
"Quantum Fourier Analysis"

Tuesday September 11 2018 and Wednesday September 12: The regular seminar will be replaced by the 2018 Ahlfors Lectures on machine learning by Sanjeev Arora.

Friday, September 7, 2018 Zhengwei Liu, Harvard
Special Time and Location: Tufts University Mathematics Colloquium.
Friday, September 7 at 4pm. Tea at 3:30pm Bromfield-Pearson 101
Quantum Fourier Analysis

Tuesday, September 4 2018 Bohan Fang, Peking University
"Mirror symmetry for the toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds"

 

From March 24, 2020, the seminar will be held on Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. Boston time.
The link to all seminars from September 29, 2020, forward is Zoom Link for Tuesday Mathpicture Seminars.
Most seminars, from March 31, 2020,  can be viewed at this Youtube Link for Past Seminars.


We are now taking a summer break. Stay tuned for more seminars starting again in August!


Online: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 Francis Brown, All Souls College, Oxford University Notes Video
"Invariant differential forms, graph complexes, and Feynman integrals"

 

Online: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 Jeongwan Haah, Microsoft Notes Video
"Topological phases of discrete time evolution"

 

No Seminar: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 

 

Online: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Svetlana Jitomirskaya, University of California, Irvine Slides Video
“Fractal properties of the Hofstadter's butterfly and singular continuous spectrum of the critical almost Mathieu operator"
 

Online: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Feng Xu, University of California, Riverside 
"Rigorous results about relative entropy in QFT"


Online: Tuesday, May 18, 2021  Yann LeCunNew York University and Facebook Slides Video
"The Energy-Based Learning Model"
 

Online: Tuesday, May 11, 2021  Xun Gao, Harvard University   Slides   Video 
“Understanding the Linear Cross Entropy Benchmark through a Statistical Physics Model”

Online: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 Rupert Frank, Cal Tech and LMU Slides Video
"Lieb-Thirring Bounds and other Inequalities for Orthonormal Functions"
 

Online: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 Bruno Nachtergaele, University of California, Davis Slides Video
"Dimerization in Quantum Spin Chains With O(n) Symmetry"

 

Online: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Haribabu Arthanari, Harvard Medical School Slides Video
"Emerging Frontiers in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance"

 

Online: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 Jens Hoppe, Technische Universitat Braunschweig Slides Video 
"Aspects of M Theory"

 

Online: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 Anton Alexeev, University of Geneva Slides Video
"Conjugation of Words, Self-Intersections of Planar Curves, and Non-Commutative Divergence"

 

Online: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 Dietmar Bisch, Vanderbilt University Slides Video
"The Wondrous World of Hyperfinite Subfactors"

 

Online: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 J. William Helton, UCSD (Univeristy of California, San Diego) Slides Video
"Noncommutative Real Algebraic Geometry and Quantum Games"

 

Online: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University
"Exploring New Scientific Frontiers with Programmable Quantum Systems"

 

Online: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 Sorin Popa, UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Slides Video
"Some Analysis Aspects Subfactor Theory"

 

Online: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 Antti Kupiainen, University of Helsinki Slides Video
"Integrability of Liouville Theory"

 

Online: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 Jian-Wei Pan, USTC (University of Science and Technology of China) Slides Video
Special time: 9:30am EST
"From Multi-Photon Entanglement to Quantum Computational Advantage"

 

Online: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 Emily Riehl, Johns Hopkins University Slides Video
"Elements of ∞-Category Theory"

 

Online: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 John Imbrie, University of Virginia Slides Video
"Many-Body Localization near the Critical Point"

 

Online: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 Stefaan Vaes, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Slides Video
"W*-rigidity Paradigms for Embeddings of II₁ Factors"

 

Online: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 Matthias Christandl, University of Copenhagen Slides Video
"Fault-Tolerant Coding for Quantum Communication"

 

Online: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 Kaifeng Bu, Harvard University, visiting YMSC, Tsinghua University Slides Video
"Complexity of Neural Networks"

 

Online: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 Christopher Ryba, University of California, Berkeley Slides Video
"Stable Character Polynomials for Symmetric Groups"

 

Online: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 Renato Renner, ETH Zürich Slides Video
"Fundamental Bound on Time Signal Generation"

 

No Seminar: Tuesday, December 29, 2020  

 

Online: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 Zhengwei Liu, Tsinghua University Slides Video
"Brain-storming in Math and Physics - Dedicated to Arthur Jaffe"

 

Online: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Gian Michale Graf, ETH Zurich Slides Video
"Topology in Shallow-Water Waves: A Violation of Bulk-Edge Correspondence"

 

Online: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Xiao-Gang Wen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Slides Video
"Symmetry as a Shadow of Topological Order"

 

Online: Wednesday, December 3 2020 Arthur Jaffe gave a talk in the CMSA-YMSC literature series Slides Video
"Is Relativity Compatible with Quantum Theory?"

 

Online: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi, University of Tokyo Slides Video
"Topological Order, Tensor Networks and Subfactors"

 

No Seminar: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 

 

Online: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 Quanhua Xu, Université de Franche-Comté and Harbin Institute of Technology  
"Mikhlin Type Fourier Multipliers on Free Groups and Free Products of von Neumann Algebras" Slides Video

 

Online: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 Sergei Gukov, California Institute of Technology Slides Video
"Learning to Unknot"

 

Online: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 Liang Kong, SUSTech (South China University of Science and Technology) Slides Video 
"On the Classification of Topological Orders with Finite Internal Symmetries"

 

Online: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 Sebastien Palcoux, Tsinghua University Slides Video
"The Quest of a Finite Purely-Quantum Group"

 

Online: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 Joost Slingerland, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Slides Video
"Exploring Small Fusion Rings and Tensor Categories"

 

Online: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 Xun Gao, Harvard University Slides Video
"Fractionalization, Exactly Solvable Models, and Quantum Circuits"

 

Online: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Station Q and UCSB Slides Video
"Reconstructing CFTs from TQFTs"

 

Online: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 David Evans, University of Cardiff Slides Video
"K-theory of Operator Algebras, Orbifolds and Conformal Field Theory"

 

Online: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Yunxiang Ren, Harvard University Slides Video
"Triangular Prism Equations and Categorification"

 

Online: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study Slides Powerpoint Video
"Optimization, Complexity, and Math"

 

Online: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 Nilanjana Datta, Cambridge University Slides Video
"Discriminating Between Unitary Quantum Processes"

 

Online: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 Jinsong Wu, Harbin Institute of Technology Slides Video
"Some Inequalities in Locally Compact Quantum Groups"

 

Online: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 No Seminar 

 

Online: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 Laurent Pascal Saloff-Coste, Cornell University Slides Video
"Is any compact Lie group uniformly doubling?"

 

Online: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 Marianne Leitner, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (joint seminar with DIAS) Slides Video
"Integrability, Rationality and Convolutions"

 

Online: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Gilles Pisier, Texas A&M University and Sorbonne Université Slides Video
"A Non-nuclear C*-algebra with the Weak Expectation Property and the Local Lifting Property

 

Online: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 David Gross, University of Cologne Slides Video
"The Representation Theory of the Clifford Group, with Applications in Quantum Information"

 

Online: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 Vaughan Jones, Vanderbilt University Slides Video
"Applied von Neumann Algebra"

 

Online: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 Paul Fendley, All Souls College, Oxford University Slides Video
"Integrability and Braided Tensor Categories"

 

Online: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Marius Junge, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Slides Video 
"Decay Estimates and Complete Bakry-Emry Theory"

 

Online: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Robert Raussendorf, University of British Columbia Slides Video 
"A Hidden Variable Model for Universal Quantum Computation With Magic States on Qubits"

 

Online: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 Zhengwei Liu, Tsinghua University (visiting Harvard) Slides Video
"Quantum Fourier Analysis"

 

Online: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Matthew Hastings, Microsoft Station Q and Redmond Slides Video
"The Power of Adiabatic Quantum Computation with no Sign Problem"

 

Online: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 Elizabeth Crosson, University of New Mexico Slides Video
"The Sign Problem and its Relation to the Spectral Gap of Quantum Many-Body Systems"

 

Online: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 Shawn Cui, Purdue University Slides Video 
"Kitaev's Finite Group Model as an Error Correcting Code"

 

Online: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 Scott Aaronson, University of Texas Video
"From Archimedes to Quantum Supremacy"

 

Online: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Alina Vdovina, University of Newcastle Slides Video
"Buildings, C*-Algebras and New Higher-Dimensional Analogues of the Thompson Groups"

 

Online: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 Werner Nahm, Dublin Institute for Advanced Study Slides Video
"Euclidean Quantum Field Theory: Axioms and Automorphic Forms"

 

Online: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Roberto Longo, University of Rome Tor Vergata Slides Video
"The Information in a Wave"

 

Postponed: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 David Ruelle, IHES (France)
"A Theory of Hydrodynamic Turbulence Based on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics"

Online: Tuesday, April 28 2020 Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute Slides Video
"Graphical Proofs for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation"

 

Online: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Jürg Fröhlich, ETH Zürich  Slides Video
"Kochen, Specker, Bell, and Others"

 

Postponed: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Station Q and UCSB
"Ground-States of Topological Phases of Matter as Error Correction Codes"

 

Online: Tuesday, April 14 2020 Thomas Spencer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Slides Video
"Evolution of NLS with Bounded Data"

 

Online: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Leonard Gross, Cornell Univesity Slides Video
"Equivalence of Helicity and Euclidean Self-Duality for Gauge Fields"

 

Online: Tuesday, March 31 2020 Ian Jauslin, Princeton University Slides Video
"Liquid crystals and the Heilmann-Lieb model"

 

Online: Tuesday, March 24 2020 Edward Farhi, Google and MIT
"QAOA: Landscape Independence and the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model"
 Zoom (video presentation) at https://harvard.zoom.us/j/881015355

 

Tuesday, March 10 2020 Sergei Bravyi, IBM
"Variational Quantum Algorithms: Obstacles and Opportunities"
Special time: 3 pm

 

Thursday, March 5 2020 James Glimm, SUNY at Stony Brook
"A Maximum Entropy Rate Principle and Other Turbulence Related Results and Speculations"
Special day and time: Thursday, 4:30 pm

 

Tuesday, March 3 2020 Weihua Liu, University of Arizona
On quantum distributional symmetries for *-random variables

 

Thursday, February 27 2020 Nilin Abrahamsen, MIT
Special day and time: Thursday, 11:00 am
Special location: Lyman 338
"Classical Algorithm for Ground States of Spin Trees"

 

Tuesday, February 25 2020 You Zhou, Harvard
"Constructing Multipartite Bell Inequalities from Stabilizers"

 

Tuesday, February 18 2020 Linghang Kong, MIT
Special time: 3 pm
"Separation of Out-of-time-ordered Correlation and Entanglement"

 

Tuesday, February 11 2020 Dominik Wild, Harvard
"Quantum Algorithms for Classical Sampling Problems"

 

Tuesday, February 4 2020 Zhengwei Liu, Tsinghua University
"Quantized Graphs and Quantum Error Correction"

 

Tuesday, January 28 2020 Aram Harrow, MIT
"Phase Transitions in the Complexity of Simulating Random Shallow Quantum Circuits"

 

Tuesday, January 7 2020 Jin-Long Huang, University of California San Diego
"Exotic 3D Topologically Ordered States"

 

Tuesday, December 3 2019 Christopher King, Northeastern University
"Contractive Bounds for Quantum Markov Semigroups"

 

Thursday, November 7 2019 Leo Zhou, Harvard
Special day and time: Thursday, 11 am
Special location: Lyman 338
"Symmetry-Protected Dissipative Preparation of Matrix Product States"

 

Tuesday, November 12 2019 Yichen Huang, MIT
"Renyi Entanglement Entropy in Quantum Many-Body  Systems"

 

Thursday, October 24 2019 Chunlan Jiang, Heibei Normal University
Special day: Thursday
Special location: Lyman 338
"Some Progress on the Problem of Invariant Subspaces"

 

Tuesday, October 22 2019 Juven Wang, Harvard University
"Quantum 4d Yang-Mills Theories and Time-Reversal Symmetric 5d Higher-Gauge TQFT"

The Math Picture Language seminar will be held at 9:30 a.m. Boston time.
Click the link for Zoom Link for Tuesday Math Picture Language Seminars.
Recorded seminars can be viewed on the Mathemical Picture Language YouTube channel.
Please email cstillman@fas.harvard.edu to be added to the seminar mailing list.

Tuesday, June 7, 2022   Patrick Coles, Los Alamos National Laboratory   video   slides
"Training landscapes for parameterized quantum circuits"

Tuesday, May 24, 2022    Alice Guionnet, ENS Lyon  video
"Matrix models, the enumeration of maps and free probability"

Tuesday, May 17, 2022    Israel Michael Sigal, University of Toronto  video
"Long-time Dynamics in Quantum Mechanics and Condensed Matter Physics"

Tuesday, May 10, 2022    Sitan Chen, University of California Berkeley  video  slides
"Learning Polynomial Transformations"

Tuesday, May 3, 2022    Ramon van Handel, Princeton University  video
"Nonasymptotic random matrix theory"

Tuesday, April 19, 2022    Assaf Naor, Princeton University  video
"Vertical versus horizontal isoperimetry"

Tuesday, April 12, 2022    Jintai Ding, Tsinghua University and Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA)  video  slides
"Post-quantum cryptography and post-quantum key exchange based on the LWE and RLWE problems"

Thursday, April 7, 2022  NOTE DAY and DATE   David Ruelle, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France  video  slides
"A Natural Limitation for Properly Human Scientific Progress"

Tuesday, April 5, 2022    Edward Frenkel, University of California Berkeley   video   slides
"Analytic Langlands correspondence for complex curves"

Tuesday, March 29, 2022    Alice Guionnet, ENS Lyon  Rescheduled to May 24, 2022
"Matrix models, the enumeration of maps and free probability"

Tuesday, March 22, 2022    Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang, California Institute of Technology  video   slides
"Provably efficient machine learning for quantum many-body problems"

Tuesday, March 15, 2022    No Seminar

Tuesday, March 8, 2022    Thomas Spencer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton  video  slides
"Continuous symmetry breaking along the Nishimori line"

Tuesday, March 1, 2022    Feng Xu, University of California Riverside  video  slides
"Rigorous results about  entropy in QFT"

Tuesday, February 22, 2022    Yury Polyanskiy, MIT  video  slides
"Uniqueness of BP fixed point for Ising models"

Tuesday, February 15, 2022    Jian Ding, Peking University  video slides
"Recent progress on the random field Ising model"

Tuesday, February 8, 2022    Roland Bauerschmidt, Cambridge University  video  slides
"Random forests and the OSp(1|2) nonlinear sigma model"

Tuesday, February 1, 2022    Norman Yao, Harvard University  video
"What is a time crystal?"

Winter Break: December 15, 2021 to January 31, 2022

Tuesday, December 14, 2021    Guoliang Yu, Texas A&M University  video   slides
"Higher invariants of Dirac operators and positive scalar curvature"

Tuesday, December 7, 2021    Alain Connes, IHES and College de France  video  slides
"Prolate spheroidal functions and zeta"

Tuesday, November 30, 2021    Yue Lu, Harvard University   video
"Learning by Random Features and Kernel Random Matrices: Sharp Asymptotics and Universality Laws"

Tuesday, November 16, 2021    Leslie Valiant, Harvard University video
"Holographic Algorithms"

Tuesday, November 9, 2021    Semyon Dyatlov, MIT video slides
"Resonances for Open Quantum Maps"

Tuesday, November 2, 2021    Seth Lloyd, MIT    video   slides    article
"Quantum algorithms for topological and geometric analysis of data"

Tuesday, October 26, 2021    Weinan E, Princeton University and Beijing Institute of Big Data Research   video   slides
"A Mathematical Perspective of Machine Learning

Tuesday, October 19, 2021    Jordan Cotler, Harvard University   video   slides
"Quantum-enhanced Learning using a Quantum Memory"

Tuesday, October 12, 2021    Zhengwei Liu, Tsinghua University & Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications   video   slides
"Uncertainty Principles on Quantum Symmetries"

Tuesday, October 5, 2021    Cynthia Dwork, Harvard University.   video    slides
"Differential Privacy: The Mathematical Bulwark Against Reidentification and Reconstruction"

 

 

The Math Picture Language seminar will be held at 9:30 a.m. Boston time.
Click the link for a Zoom Link for Tuesday Math Picture Language Seminars.
Recorded seminars can be viewed on the Mathemical Picture Language YouTube channel.

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SCHEDULE
Tuesday, September 20, 2022  Melanie Wood, Harvard University   video  slides
"Determining distributions of groups from their moments"

Tuesday, September 27, 2022  Jens Eisert, Freie Universität Berlin   video
"A Single T-Gate Makes Quantum Distribution Learning Hard"

Tuesday, October 4, 2022  Giacomo De Palma, University of Bologna, Italy   video   slides 
"The quantum Wasserstein distance of order 1"

Tuesday, October 11, 2022  Narutaka Ozawa, Kyoto University   video   slides
"Kazhdan's property (T) for Aut(F_n) and EL_n(R)"

Tuesday, October 18, 2022  Liang Jiang, University of Chicago  video   
"Path-Independent Quantum Gates"

Tuesday, October 25, 2022  Philippe Faist, Freie Universität Berlin  video  slides
"Time-energy uncertainty relation and quantum error correction for noisy quantum metrology"

Tuesday, November 1, 2022  Eric Carlen, Rutgers University   video  slides
"Quantum Entropy Inequalities and Reversible Quantum Markov Semigroups as Gradient Flow for Quantum Relative Entropy"

Tuesday, November 8, 2022  Kushal Seetharam, MIT and Harvard University   video  slides
"Quantum simulation of parameter-averaged NMR experiments"

Tuesday, November 15, 2022  Roy Garcia, Harvard University   video   slides
"Resource theory of quantum scrambling"

WINTER BREAK

Tuesday, January 31, 2023  Beni Yoshida, Perimeter Institute   video  slides
"Holographic Scattering from Quantum Error-Collection" 

Tuesday, February 7, 2023  Dan Freed, University of Texas   video   slides
"What is an Anomaly?"

Tuesday, February 14, 2023  Anne-Marie Aubert, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique video  slides
"A Bridge Between the Baum-Connes Conjecture and the Langlands Program"

Tuesday, February 21, 2023  Dongling Deng, Tsinghua University video  slides
"Recent Advances in Quantum AI"

Tuesday, February 28, 2023  Andrew Childs, University of Maryland  video  slides
"Quantum divide and conquer"

Tuesday, March 6, 2023 no seminar, spring break

Tuesday, March 13 2023 no seminar, spring break

Tuesday, March 21, 2023  Peter Love, Tufts University  video  slides
"Contextual Subspace Variational Quantum Eigensolver"

Tuesday, March 28, 2023  Yitang Zhang, University of California, Santa Barbara  video   slides
"Non-positive sequences in analytic number theory and the Landau-Siegel zero"

Tuesday, April 4, 2023  John Cardy, University of California, Berkeley, and All Souls College, Oxford  video  slides
"The TTbar deformation of 2d quantum field theory and modular forms"

Tuesday, April 18, 2023  Klaus Fredenhagen, II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg  video  slides
"Constructing algebraic quantum field theory"

Tuesday, April 25, 2023  Jesse Peterson, Vanderbilt University  video
"Amenability and von Neumann algebras"

Tuesday, May 2, 2023  Brian Swingle, Brandeis University  video
"Hydrodynamics and Corrections to Random Matrix Universality in Quantum Chaos"

Tuesday, May 9, 2023  Kaifeng Bu, Harvard University  video  slides
"Magic from a quantum convolutional approach"

 

New Frontiers: Interactions between Quantum Physics and Mathematics. Conference June 20-23, 2022 schedule and program.

Recorded talks can be viewed on the Mathematical Picture Language Youtube channel.

Thursday, June 23, 2022  Nilanjana Datta, University of Cambridge video
"Universal proofs of entropic continuity bounds via majorization flow"

Thursday, June 23, 2022  Marius Junge, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign video
"Entropy decay in large open systems"

Thursday, June 23, 2022  Elchanan Mossel, MIT video
"Variations of Hyper-contraction"

Thursday, June 23, 2022  Hari Arthanari, Harvard Medical School/DFCI video
"Emerging frontiers in computational drug discovery"

Wednesday, June 22, 2022  Terry Gannon, University of Alberta video
"Exotic quantum subgroups for any Lie algebra"

Wednesday, June 22, 2022  Aram Harrow, MIT video
"Quantum walks on hierarchical graphs"

Wednesday, June 22, 2022  Jun Yang, Harvard University video
"The Plancherel Measure of an Adelic Group is the von Neumann Dimension"

Wednesday, June 22, 2022  Kaifeng Bu, Harvard University video
"Quantum circuit complexity and quantum resource"

Wednesday, June 22, 2022  Victor Ostrik, University of Oregon video
"Frobenius exact symmetric tensor categories."

Wednesday, June 22, 2022  Julia Plavnik, Indiana University, Bloomington video
"Zesting, condensation and gauging as quantum symmetries"

Wednesday, June 22, 2022  Shawn Cui, Purdue University video
"Trisection invariants of 4-manifolds from Hopf algebras"

Wednesday, June 22, 2022  Zhengwei Liu, Tsinghua University and BIMSA video
"Quantum Fourier Analysis for Quantum Channels"

Wednesday, June 22, 2022  Peter Shor, MIT video
"Quantum Money"

Tuesday, June 21, 2022  Edward Farhi, MIT
"An overview of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm"

Tuesday, June 21, 2022  Dave Penneys, Ohio State University
"Composing topological domain walls and anyon mobility"

Tuesday, June 21, 2022  Steven Flammia, AWS Center for Quantum Computing
"A Constructive Approach to Zauner's Conjecture via the Stark Conjectures"

Tuesday, June 21, 2022  Guoliang Yu, Texas A&M University video
"An index theorem for manifolds with corners and scalar curvature rigidity"

Tuesday, June 21, 2022  Leonard Susskind, Stanford University video
"Infinite Temperature's not so hot."

Tuesday, June 21, 2022  Yasuyuki Kawahigashi, University of Tokyo video
"A characterization of a finite-dimensional commuting square producing a subfactor of finite depth"

Tuesday, June 21, 2022  Yury Polyanskiy, MIT video
"Information propagation in low dimensions"

Tuesday, June 21, 2022  Jiaoyang Huang, Courant Institute, NYU video
"Random Matrix Statistics"

Tuesday, June 21, 2022  Michael Freedman, Microsoft video
"Smallest Interacting Universe"

Monday, June 20, 2022  Open Questions Session video

Monday, June 20, 2022  Daniel Loss, University of Basel video
"From Fractional Spin to Topological Magnons"

Monday, June 20, 2022  Hans Wenzl, University of California, San Diego video
"Module Categories for WZW-Models"

Monday, June 20, 2022  Renato Renner, ETH Zurich video
"A quantum information perspective on black holes"

Monday, June 20, 2022   Xiao-Gang Wen, MIT video
"Phases and Phase transition from categorical symmetry"

Monday, June 20, 2022   Roberto Longo, University of Rome Tor Vergata video
"Entropy and the modular Hamiltonian"

Monday, June 20, 2022   Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft video
"Spaces of Hamiltonians, symmetries of topological order, and Floquet codes"

Monday, June 20, 2022   Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University video
"Exploring new scientific frontiers using programmable atom arrays"

The Math Picture Language seminar will be held at 4:30 p.m. Boston time.
 

For the 2023-2024 school year, the seminar will take place in Jefferson 256. People can also join the seminar remotely. Click the link for a Zoom Link for Tuesday Math Picture Language Seminars.
Recorded seminars can be viewed on the Mathemical Picture Language YouTube channel.


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SCHEDULE

Tuesday, September 5, 2023  Maciej Dunajski, University of Cambridge  slides  video
"Equivalence principle, de-Sitter space, and twistor theory"

Tuesday, September 12, 2023  Jun Yang, Harvard University  slides  video
“Limit multiplicities, trace formulas and von Neumann dimensions”

Tuesday, September 19, 2023  Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto  slides  video
"My Adventures in Quantumland"

Tuesday, September 26, 2023  Ken Duffy, Northeastern University  slides  video
"An introduction to Forward Error Correction and Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding"

Tuesday, October 3, 2023  Madhu Sudan, Harvard University  slides  video
"Proofs and Computation"

Tuesday, October 10, 2023  no seminar

Tuesday, October 17, 2023  Graeme Smith, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo  slides  video
"Mathematical challenges in quantum information theory"

Tuesday, October 24, 2023  Tzu-Chieh Wei, Stony Brook University slides  video
"Learning marginals suffices!"

Tuesday, October 31, 2023  Daniel Spielman, Yale University  slides  video
"Discrepancy Theory and Randomized Controlled Trials"

Tuesday, November 7, 2023  Steven Girvin, Yale Quantum Institute slides video
"Adventures in Phase Space: Non-commuting coordinates meet quantum control and quantum error correction"

Tuesday, November 14, 2023  Alina Vdovina, City College of New York and Graduate Center, CUNY  slides  video
"Higher dimensional digraphs from cube complexes and their spectral theory"

Tuesday, November 21, 2023  no seminar

Tuesday, November 28, 2023  David Evans, Cardiff University  slides  video 
"On Quantum Symmetry"

Tuesday, December 5, 2023  Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, UCLA  slides  video
"Free dimension via the Wasserstein Metric"

Special Day, Time, & Place! 
Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 4:30pm in Jefferson 356 
Ryan Babbush, Google Research  slides  video  
“The search for valuable applications of fault-tolerant quantum computers”

WINTER BREAK

New Day, Time, & Place! 
Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 4:30pm in Jefferson 256 
Frederick Manners, University of California, San Diego  slides  video
"Inverse theorems and approximate structure"

Special Day & Place! 
Wednesday, February 21 at 4:30pm in Jefferson 368 
Jacob Fox, Stanford University slides video
"Subset Sums"

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 Robert Huang, Cal Tech
"Certifying Almost All Quantum States with Few Single-qubit Measurements"

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 Yufei Zhao, MIT
"Equiangular Lines and Eigenvalue Multiplicity"

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 Dolev Bluvstein, Harvard
"Logical Quantum Processor Based on Reconfigurable Atom Arrays"

Special Location!
Jefferson 453, Tuesday, April 23, 2024 Madelyn Cain, Harvard

"Correlated Decoding of Logical Algorithms with Transversal Gate"