During the 2026–27 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Colloquium series, organized by Tobias Schmidt, Houcine Ben Dali, Francesco Mori, and Michal Shavit.
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.
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The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.
Speaker: Spiro Karigiannis (University of Waterloo) Title: Cohomologies on almost complex manifolds and their applications Abstract: We define three cohomologies on an almost complex manifold (M, J), defined using the Nijenhuis-Lie derivations induced from […]
Speaker: Hans Lindblad (Johns Hopkins University) Title: Global Existence and Scattering for Einstein's equations and related equations satisfying the weak null condition Abstract: Einstein's equations in harmonic or wave coordinates are a system of […]
Speaker: Aram Harrow (MIT) Title: Monogamy of entanglement and convex geometry Abstract: The SoS (sum of squares) hierarchy is a flexible algorithm that can be used to optimize polynomials and to test whether a quantum […]
Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) Title: Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics and Positive Geometry at Infinity
Speaker: Kevin Costello (Perimeter Institute) Title: A unified perspective on integrability Abstract: Two-dimensional integrable field theories, and the integrable PDEs which are their classical limits, play an important role in mathematics and physics. […]
Speaker: Heather Harrington (University of Oxford) Title: Algebra, Geometry and Topology of ERK Enzyme Kinetics Abstract: In this talk I will analyse ERK time course data by developing mathematical models of enzyme kinetics. I will […]
Speaker: Xi Yin (Harvard) Title: An Introduction to the Non-Perturbative Bootstrap Abstract: I will discuss non-perturbative definitions of quantum field theories, some properties of correlation functions of local operators, and give a brief […]
Speaker: Madhu Sudan (Harvard) Title: Communication Complexity of Randomness Manipulation Abstract: The task of manipulating randomness has been a subject of intense investigation in the theory of computer science. The classical definition of this […]
Speaker: Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT) Title: Emergence of graviton-like excitations from a lattice model Abstract: I will review some construction of lattice rotor model which give rise to emergent photons and graviton-like excitations. The appearance of […]
Speaker: David Yang (Harvard) Title: Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China Abstract: Data-intensive technologies such as AI may reshape the modern world. We propose that two features of data interact to shape innovation in data-intensive economies: first, states are […]
Speaker: Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin) Title: Gentle Measurement of Quantum States and Differential Privacy Abstract: I'll discuss a recent connection between two seemingly unrelated problems: how to measure a collection of quantum states […]
Speaker: Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard) Title: A Compact, Logical Approach to Large-Market Analysis Abstract: In game theory, we often use infinite models to represent "limit" settings, such as markets with a large number of agents or games with […]