Freedman CMSA Seminar
VirtualFreedman CMSA Seminar *Note: via Zoom only* 2:00-3:30 pm ET Speaker: Michael Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: Some questions and theorems about closed 3 manifolds embedded in S^4 Abstract: Much […]
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During the 2025–26 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a seminar organized by Mike Freedman on Fridays from 2:00–4:30 pm.
The seminar will take place in Room G10 at the CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA and will also be broadcast via Zoom.
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A simple model for universal quantum computation
VirtualFreedman CMSA Seminar Speaker: Michael Freedman Title: A simple model for universal quantum computation Abstract: I’ll present joint (unpublished) work with Charlie Marcus on a surprisingly simple – and potentially […]
Is every knot isotopic to the unknot?
VirtualFreedman CMSA Seminar *via Zoom* Speaker: Sergey Melikhov, Steklov Math Institute Title: Is every knot isotopic to the unknot? Abstract: The following problem was stated by D. Rolfsen in his 1974 paper; […]
Freedman CMSA Seminar: Michael Freedman (CMSA) & Elia Portnoy (MIT)
Hybrid - G10Freedman CMSA Seminar Speaker: Michael Freedman, Harvard CMSA (3:00–4:00 pm ET) Title: How many links can you fit in a box? Abstract: I’ll discuss a “made up” problem on the interface of […]
Adversarial KA
VirtualFreedman CMSA Seminar Speaker: Slava Dzhenzher, MIPT Title: Adversarial KA Abstract: Regarding the representation theorem of Kolmogorov and Arnold (KA) as an algorithm for representing or «expressing» functions, we test […]
Freedman Seminar: Michael Freedman, CMSA & Bowen Yang, CMSA
VirtualFreedman Seminar Speaker: Michael Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: Sullivan's work on Lipschitz structures Abstract: I'll begin with an elementary, but now little known, piece of PL topology: engulfing. John Stalling […]
Freedman Seminar: Michael Freedman, CMSA & Bowen Yang, CMSA
VirtualFreedman Seminar Speaker: Michael Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: Sullivan’s work on Lipschitz structures Part II (but self-contained) Speaker: Bowen Yang, CMSA Title: Deligne and Sullivan's work on complex bundles […]