CMSA Q&A Seminar: Anurag Anshu
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Anurag Anshu, Harvard University Topic: What is quantum complexity theory?
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 Speaker: Anurag Anshu, Harvard University Topic: What is quantum complexity theory?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Edgar Shaghoulian, UC Santa Cruz Topic: What are the main questions in quantum gravity today?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University Topic: What is a quantum critical region?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Javier Gomez-Serrano, Brown University Topic: Please tell us about the Millennium prize problem for Navier-Stokes and segue from that into ML?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Phillip Matchett Wood, Harvard University Topic: Info session on the CMSA/Mathematics Summer REU Program (Research Experience for Undergraduates)
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal, Harvard CMSA Topic: What is the positive energy theorem?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed, Harvard University Topic: What are spectra (in homotopy theory)?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Eric Maskin, Harvard University Topic: The Mathematics of Voting
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Noah Golowich (MIT) Topic: What is length generalization in large language models?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Alexei Borodin (MIT) Topic: Connections between physics and probability
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Thomas Grimm, Utrecht & CMSA Topic: What is o-minimality and what is it good for?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Paul Seidel, MIT Topic: Fukaya categories of Landau-Ginzburg models