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 Thursdays from 4:00–5:00 pm Eastern Time.

The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.

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  • 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 […]

  • Electrical networks, Grassmannians, and cluster algebras

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

    Algebra Seminar Speaker: Lazar Guterman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Title: Electrical networks, Grassmannians, and cluster algebras Abstract: An electrical network with $n$ boundary vertices induces a matrix called the response matrix […]

  • Algebra Seminar

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

    Algebra Seminar  

  • Algebra Seminar

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

    Algebra Seminar  

  • Moduli of subcanonical points

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

    Algebra Seminar Speaker: Dawei Chen, Boston College Title: Moduli of subcanonical points Abstract: Subcanonical points are special Weierstrass points on smooth algebraic curves whose semigroups are symmetric. In this talk, I will […]

  • Multiplicities of graded families of ideals on Noetherian local rings

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

    Algebra Seminar Speaker: Dale Cutkosky, University of Missouri Title: Multiplicities of graded families of ideals on Noetherian local rings Abstract: Let $R$ be an arbitrary $d$-dimensional Noetherian local ring with […]

  • Interpolation for points in $\mathbb{P}^N, N\geq 2$

    CMSA Room G02 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

    Algebra Seminar Speaker: Dipendranath Mahato, Tulane University Title: Interpolation for points in $\mathbb{P}^N, N\geq 2$ Abstract: Interpolation problems study hypersurfaces in projective space passing through prescribed sets of points. Classically, […]

  • Transcendental Epsilon Multiplicity via Divisor Volumes

    CMSA Room G02 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

    Algebra Seminar Speaker: Sudipta Das, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Title: Transcendental Epsilon Multiplicity via Divisor Volumes Abstract:  In this talk, our goal is to establish a structural bridge between asymptotic […]

  • Polynomial invariants of conjugation over finite fields

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

    Algebra Seminar Speaker: Aryaman Maithani, University of Utah Title: Polynomial invariants of conjugation over finite fields Abstract: Consider the conjugation action of GL₂(K) on the polynomial ring K. When K is an infinite field, […]