During the 2024–25 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Colloquium series, organized by  Matteo Parisi, Alejandro Poveda, and Vasily Krylov.

It will take place on Mondays from 4:30 – 5:30 pm (Eastern Time) in Room G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street. All CMSA postdocs/members are required to attend the weekly CMSA Colloquium series as well as the weekly CMSA Members’ Seminars.

To subscribe to the CMSA Colloquium Mailing list, please visit: https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/lists/cmsa_colloquium.lists.fas.harvard.edu/

The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.

Modeling the emergence of complex cortical structure from simple precursors in the brain: maps, hierarchies, and modules

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Colloquium Speaker: Ila Fiete, MIT Title: Modeling the emergence of complex cortical structure from simple precursors in the brain: maps, hierarchies, and modules Abstract: Modular and hierarchical structures are ubiquitous in the brain. Two distinct hypotheses for such morphogenesis involve genetic specification (the positional information hypothesis) or spontaneous structure emergence from symmetry breaking (the pattern […]

Colloquium

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Colloquium Speaker: Peter Sarnak, IAS & Princeton University

Colloquium

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Colloquium Speaker: Ariel Procaccia, Harvard University

Colloquium

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Colloquium Speaker: Anna Siegal, Harvard University