During the 2023–24 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Question and Answer (Q&A) Seminar, organized by Dan Freed and Sunghyuk Park.
The seminar will meet weekly on Tuesdays from 12:30–1:30 pm (Eastern Time) in the common room at the CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138.
CMSA members may submit questions and suggest possible speakers using this form (link).
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Xi Yin (Harvard Physics) and Peter Kronheimer (Harvard Math) Topics: Xi Yin: What is string field theory? Peter Kronheimer: What is Seiberg-Witten theory?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Michael Hopkins (Harvard Math) and Minhea Popa (Harvard Math) Topics: Mike Hopkins: What are topological modular forms? Mihnea Popa: What is the abundance conjecture and why should it to be true?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Mike Douglas (Harvard CMSA) and Anurag Anshu (Harvard Computer Science) Topics: Mike Douglas: What are scaling laws in deep learning? Anurag Anshu: What's the difference between classical information theory and quantum information theory (or classical computation vs quantum computation)?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Greg Moore, Rutgers University Question: What is supersymmetry?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Solomon Friedberg, Boston College Question: What is the Langlands program?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed Question: What are Higgs bundles?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Cumrun Vafa Question: What is swampland?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Arthur Jaffe, Harvard University Question: What is mathematical picture language?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Yannai Gonczarowski, Harvard University Question: What do people mean when they say 'the intersection between theoretical computer science and economic theory'?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Cengiz Pehlevan, Harvard Question: What is feature learning?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Melanie Weber, Harvard Question: What is the Ricci curvature of a graph?
Speaker: Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Question: What is morphogenesis? (Morphogenesis: geometry and biology)