During the 2025–26 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Question and Answer (Q&A) Seminar, organized by Dan Freed and Bowen Yang.

The seminar will meet weekly on Wednesdays from 12:00–1:00 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&A Seminar: Dan Freed

    CMSA Q&A Seminar
    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed, Harvard University Topic: What are spectra (in homotopy theory)?

  • CMSA Q&A Seminar: Noah Golowich

    CMSA Q&A Seminar
    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Noah Golowich (MIT) Topic: What is length generalization in large language models?

  • CMSA Q&A Seminar: Thomas Grimm

    CMSA Q&A Seminar
    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Thomas Grimm, Utrecht & CMSA Topic: What is o-minimality and what is it good for?

  • CMSA Q&A Seminar: Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Miami

    CMSA Q&A Seminar
    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Miami Title: New Birational Invariants Abstract: We will introduce the origins of the main ideas of the theory of atoms. Applications follow. Equivariant and mixed atoms will be considered.

  • CMSA Q&A Seminar: James Eldred Pascoe, Drexel University

    CMSA Q&A Seminar
    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: James Eldred Pascoe, Drexel University Title: (What is) The tracial fundamental group and free universal monodromy? Abstract: We introduce the tracial fundamental group to classify the analytic continuation of functions that are locally behave like the trace of natural matrix valued functions. While globally defined natural matrix-valued functions (known as free […]