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: Cliff Taubes

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Cliff Taubes, Harvard Mathematics Topic: What are Z/2 harmonic 1-forms?

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    CMSA Q&A Seminar: Laura DeMarco

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Laura DeMarco, Harvard University Topic: What is Teichmuller geometry and why is it important?

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    CMSA Q&A Seminar: Dan Freed

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed, Harvard Mathematics & CMSA Topic: What are topological phases of matter?

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    CMSA Q&A Seminar: Michael Freedman

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Michael Freedman, Harvard CMSA Topic: Broad perspective on manifolds: all dimensions, all structures, classification and dynamics

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    CMSA Q&A Seminar: Anurag Anshu

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Anurag Anshu, Harvard University Topic: What is quantum complexity theory?    

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    CMSA Q&A Seminar: Edgar Shaghoulian

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Edgar Shaghoulian, UC Santa Cruz Topic: What are the main questions in quantum gravity today?

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    CMSA Q&A Seminar: Subir Sachdev

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University Topic: What is a quantum critical region?

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    CMSA Q&A Seminar: Javier Gomez-Serrano

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

    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?

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    CMSA Q&A Seminar: Phillip Matchett Wood

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

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Phillip Matchett Wood, Harvard University Topic: Info session on the CMSA/Mathematics Summer REU Program (Research Experience for Undergraduates)