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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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  • Profinite tensor powers

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

    Algebra Seminar Speaker: David Treumann (Boston College) Title: Profinite tensor powers Abstract: I'll discuss the problem of defining a tensor product of profinitely many copies of a vector space V, […]

  • Lech’s inequality and stability of local rings

    Virtual

    Algebra Seminar Speaker: Linquan Ma (Purdue University) Title: Lech's inequality and stability of local rings Abstract: We explore Lech's inequality relating the colength and multiplicity of m-primary ideals in a Noetherian […]

  • Character sheaves on the loop Lie algebra and its global implications

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

    Algebra Seminar Speaker: Zhiwei Yun, MIT Title: Character sheaves on the loop Lie algebra and its global implications Abstract: Motivated by Lusztig's definition of character sheaves on a reductive Lie […]

  • Affine Springer fibers and representations

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

    Algebra Seminar Speaker: Roman Bezrukavnikov, MIT Title: Affine Springer fibers and representations Abstract: Relating representation categories of interest, such of modules over the quantum group, to topology of loop spaces […]

  • Differentials and Singularities

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

    Algebra Seminar Speaker: Dawei Chen, Boston College Title: Differentials and Singularities Abstract: Given a holomorphic differential on a smooth algebraic curve, we associate to it a Gorenstein curve singularity with […]

  • 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 […]