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 […]

General Relativity Program

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge

During the Spring 2022 semester, the CMSA hosted a program on General Relativity. This semester-long program included four minicourses,  a conference, and a workshop. General Relativity Mincourses: March–May, 2022 General […]

Dihedral ridigity and mass

Abstract: To characterise scalar curvature, Gromov proposed the dihedral rigidity conjecture which states that a positively curved polyhedron having dihedral angles less than those of a corresponding flat polyhedron should be […]

Active Matter Controlling Epithelial Dynamics

Abstract: My lab is interested in the active and adaptive materials that underlie control of cell shape.  This has centered around understanding force transmission and sensing within the actin cytoskeleton.  I […]

2/10/2022 – Interdisciplinary Science Seminar

Title: Metric Algebraic Geometry Abstract: A real algebraic variety is the set of points in real Euclidean space that satisfy a system of polynomial equations. Metric algebraic geometry is the study […]