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

    Virtual

    Freedman 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Seminar Speaker: Michael Freedman Title: A simple model for universal quantum computation Abstract: I’ll present joint (unpublished) work with Charlie Marcus on a surprisingly simple – and potentially […]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?

    Virtual

    Freedman 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; […]

  • Adversarial KA

    Virtual

    Freedman 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

    Virtual

    Freedman 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

    Virtual

    Freedman 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 […]