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.

  • CMSA Colloquium 9/15/2021 – 5/25/2022

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    During the 2021–22 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Colloquium, organized by Du Pei, Changji Xu, and Michael Simkin. It will take place on Wednesdays at 9:30am – 10:30am (Boston time). The […]

  • CMSA Colloquium

    During the 2021–22 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Colloquium, organized by Du Pei, Changji Xu, and Michael Simkin. It will take place on Wednesdays at 9:30am – 10:30am (Boston time). The […]

  • Tetrahedron instantons and M-theory indices

    Virtual

    Colloquium Speaker: Wenbin Yan (Tsinghua University) Title: Tetrahedron instantons and M-theory indices Abstract: We introduce and study tetrahedron instantons. Physically they capture instantons on $\mathbb{C}^{3}$ in the presence of the most general […]

  • Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondences for harmonic bundles and monopoles

    Virtual

    Speaker: Takuro Mochizuki (Kyoto University) Title: Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondences for harmonic bundles and monopoles Abstract:  In 1960's, Narasimhan and Seshadri discovered the equivalence between irreducible unitary flat bundles and stable bundles of degree […]

  • Holographic Cone of Average Entropies and Universality of Black Holes

    Virtual

    Speaker: Bartek Czech, Tsinghua University Title: Holographic Cone of Average Entropies and Universality of Black Holes Abstract:  In the AdS/CFT correspondence, the holographic entropy cone, which identifies von Neumann entropies of CFT […]

  • Dimers and webs

    Virtual

    Speaker: Richard Kenyon (Yale) Title: Dimers and webs Abstract: We consider SL_n-local systems on graphs on surfaces and show how the associated Kasteleyn matrix can be used to compute probabilities of various […]

  • Edge Modes and Gravity

    Speaker: Rob Leigh, UIUC Title: Edge Modes and Gravity Abstract:  In this talk I first review some of the many appearances of localized degrees of freedom — edge modes —  in […]

  • What is Mathematical Consciousness Science?

    Speaker: Johannes Kleiner, LMU München Title: What is Mathematical Consciousness Science? Abstract: In the last three decades, the problem of consciousness – how and why physical systems such as the brain […]