During the 2025–26 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting an Algebra Seminar, organized by Stephen Landsittel.

This seminar will take place weekly on Tuesdays from 2:00–3:00 pm Eastern Time.

The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.

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  • Covers of curves, Ceresa cycles, and unlikely intersections

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Algebra Seminar Speaker: Padamavathi Srinivasan, Boston University Title: Covers of curves, Ceresa cycles, and unlikely intersections Abstract: The Ceresa cycle is a canonical homologically trivial algebraic cycle associated to a curve in its Jacobian. In his 1983 thesis, Ceresa showed that this cycle is algebraically nontrivial for a very general complex curve of genus at least […]