CMSA Q&A Seminar 2/6/2024
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Greg Moore, Rutgers University Question: What is supersymmetry?
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 and A Seminar Speaker: Greg Moore, Rutgers University Question: What is supersymmetry?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Solomon Friedberg, Boston College Question: What is the Langlands program?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed Question: What are Higgs bundles?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Cumrun Vafa Question: What is swampland?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Yannai Gonczarowski, Harvard University Question: What do people mean when they say 'the intersection between theoretical computer science and economic theory'?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Arthur Jaffe, Harvard University Question: What is mathematical picture language?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Cengiz Pehlevan, Harvard Question: What is feature learning?
CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Melanie Weber, Harvard Question: What is the Ricci curvature of a graph?
Speaker: Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Question: What is morphogenesis? (Morphogenesis: geometry and biology)
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Noam Elkies, Harvard Math Topic: How to show E8 and Leech lattices have optimal sphere packings?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Cliff Taubes, Harvard Mathematics Topic: What are Z/2 harmonic 1-forms?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Laura DeMarco, Harvard University Topic: What is Teichmuller geometry and why is it important?