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 […]

Rational Polypols

Abstract: Eugene Wachspress introduced polypols as real bounded semialgebraic sets in the plane that generalize polygons. He aimed to generalize barycentric coordinates from triangles to arbitrary polygons and further to […]

Virtual localization for Artin stacks

Virtual

Abstract: This is a report about work in progress with: Adeel Khan, Aloysha Latyntsev, Hyeonjun Park and Charanya Ravi. We will describe a virtual Atiyah-Bott formula for Artin stacks.  In the Deligne-Mumford […]

General Relativity Program Minicourses

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge

Minicourses General Relativity Program Minicourses During the Spring 2022 semester, the CMSA hosted a program on General Relativity. This semester-long program included four minicourses running in March, April, and May;  […]