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: 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?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Nazim Bouatta (HMS) Topic: What are AlphaFold2 and OpenFold
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed, Harvard Mathematics & CMSA Topic: What are topological phases of matter?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Michael Freedman, Harvard CMSA Topic: Broad perspective on manifolds: all dimensions, all structures, classification and dynamics
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Michael Douglas, Harvard CMSA Topic: What is Argyres-Douglas theory?