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: 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 […]
Speaker: Daniel Wise (McGill University) Title: The Cubical Route to Understanding Groups Abstract: Cube complexes have come to play an increasingly central role within geometric group theory, as their connection to right-angled Artin groups provides a powerful […]
Speaker: Peter Shor (MIT) Title: Quantum Money from Lattices Abstract: Quantum money is a cryptographic protocol for quantum computers. A quantum money protocol consists of a quantum state which can be created (by the mint) and verified (by anybody with a quantum computer who knows what the "serial […]
Speaker: Salil Vadhan (Harvard) Title: Derandomizing Algorithms via Spectral Graph Theory Abstract: Randomization is a powerful tool for algorithms; it is often easier to design efficient algorithms if we allow the algorithms to "toss coins" […]
Speaker: Daniel Forger (UMich) Location: CMSA building, 20 Garden Street, Room G10 Title: Math, Music and the Mind; Mathematical analysis of the performed Trio Sonatas of J. S. Bach Abstract: I will describe a collaborative project with […]
Speaker: Lars Andersson (Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) Title: Stability of spacetimes with supersymmetric compactifications Abstract: Spacetimes with compact directions, which have special holonomy such as Calabi-Yau spaces, play an important role in supergravity and […]
Speaker: Gil Kalai (Hebrew University and IDC Herzliya) Title: Statistical, mathematical, and computational aspects of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers Abstract: Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) Computers hold the key for important theoretical and experimental questions regarding […]
Speaker: Jose A. Scheinkman (Columbia) Title: Re-pricing avalanches Abstract: Monthly aggregate price changes exhibit chronic fluctuations but the aggregate shocks that drive these fluctuations are often elusive. Macroeconomic models often add stochastic macro-level shocks such as […]