MIA (MIT-Imperial-Africa) mini-workshop: MIT July 20-22, 2022
Rough Schedule
Sessions will be informal, perhaps 30-40 minutes of intro at the blackboard and adequate time for discussion and questions both from the audience and from the speaker to the audience. Talks will be in the Cosman room (6C-442)
Wednesday:
1 PM Ami Hanany: TBA
2:30 PM Paul Oehlmann: mirror symmetry and toric hypersurface Calabi-Yau manifolds
4 PM Manki Kim: mirror symmetry and middle cohomology on Calabi-Yau fourfolds
Thursday:
1 PM Vishnu Jejjala: ML and math
2 PM Jim Halverson: ML theory and Ricci flow
3 PM Per Berglund: vex polytopes?
4 PM Damien Mayorga-Pena: Neural networks and metrics
Friday:
1 PM Wati Taylor: Calabi-Yau fourfolds and singularities
2:30 PM Andrew Turner: automatic enhancement in 6D supergravity and F-theory models
4 PM Philip Argyres: Questions about dynamical extended operators in field theory