
2025 Ding Shum Lecture: Irit Dinur, IAS: Expanders from local to global
On February 13, 2025 the CMSA will host the sixth annual Ding Shum Lecture, given...
Read MoreOn February 13, 2025 the CMSA will host the sixth annual Ding Shum Lecture, given...
Read MoreProgram on Classical, quantum, and probabilistic integrable systems – novel interactions and applications Dates: March...
Read MoreJoint BHI/CMSA Foundation Seminar Location: BHI Seminar Room Speaker: Uri Kol, Harvard CMSA Title: Quantum Criticality in Black Hole Dynamics Abstract: Black hole perturbation theory captures a few important effects […]
Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Vivek Saxena (YITP Stony Brook and NHETC Rutgers) Title: A homotopy of 2d SCFTs and an implication for Topological Modular Forms Abstract: […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Keyou Zeng, Harvard CMSA Title: Review of the excision property in factorization homology
Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Zichang Wang (Tsinghua University) Title: Stochastic Process and Noncommutative Geometry Abstract: We explain a stochastic approach to topological field theory and present a case study of […]
Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 4:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.
Member Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio Title: Smooth projective fibrations over the projective line and their sections Abstract: Suppose $f\colon X\to \mathbf{CP}^1$ is a smooth projective fibration, is it then true that $f$ has […]
Colloquium Speaker: Nick Trefethen, Harvard University Title: Rational approximation and the AAA algorithm Approximation by rational functions used to be mainly a theoretical subject, but with the introduction of the […]
Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Juven Wang (LIMS, Royal Institution) Title: Topological to Gravitational Leptogenesis, via Ultra Unification Abstract:Â We propose a new mechanism for leptogenesis, named Topological […]
General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Gilbert Weinstein, Ariel University Title: The mass angular momentum inequality Abstract: We show that either there is a counterexample to black hole uniqueness, in the form […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Sunghyuk Park, Harvard CMSA Title: Blob homology
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker:Â Subir Sachdev, Harvard University Topic:Â What is a quantum critical region?
Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Wenjun Niu, Perimeter Institute Title: Quantum algebras and R-matrices from the equivariant affine Grassmannians Abstract: In this talk, I will explain my joint […]
Freedman CMSA Seminar *via Zoom* Speaker: Sergey Melikhov, Steklov Math Institute Title:Â Is every knot isotopic to the unknot? Abstract:Â The following problem was stated by D. Rolfsen in his 1974 paper; […]
Full Name Role Office # Affiliation Dates Email Address Enric Boix Postdoctoral Fellow 116 CMSA eboix@mit.edu Iacopo Brivio Postdoctoral Fellow 112 CMSA ibrivio@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu Hugo Cui Postdoctoral Fellow 112 CMSA hugo.cui@epfl.ch […]
Colloquium Speaker: Michael Douglas, Harvard CMSA Title: AI in math and theoretical physics: status and prospects Abstract:Â AI is making great progress and has the potential to change how we work […]
Joint BHI/CMSA Foundation Seminar Location: BHI seminar room Speaker: Noa Zilberman (Princeton University) Title: Quantum Effects Inside Black Holes Abstract: Astrophysical black holes are known to be rotating. Within classical […]
Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker:Â Mario De Marco (UL Brussels) Title: On 5d conformal matter Abstract: SCFTs with 8 supercharges lie at the sweet spot of the classification […]
General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Liam Urban (University of Vienna) Title: On the past maximal development of near-FLRW data for the Einstein scalar-field Vlasov system Abstract: In recent years, the formation of […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Ben Gammage, Harvard University Title: Discussion of Integrating quantum groups over surfaces https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04652
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Javier Gomez-Serrano, Brown University Topic: Please tell us about the Millennium prize problem for Navier-Stokes and segue from that into ML?
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Omar Salemohamed, Mila Title: Discovering Data Structures: Nearest Neighbor Search and Beyond Abstract: As neural networks learn increasingly sophisticated tasks—from image recognition to mastering the game […]
On February 13, 2025 the CMSA will host the sixth annual Ding Shum Lecture, given by Irit Dinur, Institute for Advanced Study. Time: 4:00 pm ET Speaker: Irit Dinur, Institute […]
Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Damian Van de Heisteeg, Harvard CMSA Title: The Structure of the Flux Landscape Abstract: Identifying flux vacua in string theory with stabilized complex structure […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Houcine Ben Dali, Harvard CMSA Title:Â Jack polynomials and enumeration of non-orientable maps Abstract:Â A map is a graph embedded on a surface, which may be orientable or not. […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed, Harvard CMSA and Math Title: Â Algebras of "symmetries" in QFT and applications to solitons (1) https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08883
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Phillip Matchett Wood, Harvard University Topic: Info session on the CMSA/Mathematics Summer REU Program (Research Experience for Undergraduates)
Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed, Harvard CMSA and Math Title: Â Algebras of "symmetries" in QFT and applications to solitons (2) https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08883
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Simon Frieder, Oxford
Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar