Ongoing

Swampland Program

CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge

During the 2021–2022 academic year, the CMSA will host a program on the so-called “Swampland.” The Swampland program aims to determine which low-energy effective field theories are consistent with nonperturbative quantum gravity considerations. Not […]

CMSA Colloquium 9/15/2021 – 5/25/2022

CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge

During the 2021–22 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Colloquium, organized by Du Pei, Changji Xu, and Michael Simkin. It will take place on Wednesdays at 9:30am – 10:30am (Boston time). The […]

9/17/2021 General Relativity Seminar

Title: Stable Big Bang formation for the Einstein equations Abstract: I will discuss recent work concerning stability of cosmological singularities described by the generalized Kasner solutions. There are heuristics in […]

Geometry, Entanglement and Quasi Local Data

Member Seminar Speaker: Itamar Shamir Title: Geometry, Entanglement and Quasi Local Data Abstract: I will review some general ideas about gravity as motivation for an approach based on quasi local quantities.