• 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 […]

  • Anisotropy, biased pairing theory and applications

    Speaker: Karim Adiprasito, Hebrew University and University of Copenhagen Title: Anisotropy, biased pairing theory and applications Abstract: Not so long ago, the relations between algebraic geometry and combinatorics were strictly governed […]

  • Why explain mathematics to computers?

    https://youtu.be/rRGh97sOtKE Speaker: Patrick Massot, Laboratoire de Mathématiques d’Orsay and CNRS Title: Why explain mathematics to computers? Abstract: A growing number of mathematicians are having fun explaining mathematics to computers using […]

  • The complex Monge-Ampere equation in K\”ahler geometry

    Speaker: Freid Tong Title: The complex Monge-Ampere equation in Kahler geometry Abstract: The complex Monge-Ampere equations occupies an central role in K\”ahler geometry, beginning with Yau’s famous solutions of the Calabi […]

  • Hitchin map as spectrum of equivariant cohomology

    Speaker: Tamás Hausel (IST Austria) Title: Hitchin map as spectrum of equivariant cohomology Abstract: We will explain how to model the Hitchin integrable system on a certain Lagrangian upward flow as the spectrum of equivariant cohomology of a Grassmannian.

  • The Greene-Plesser Construction Revisited

    Member Seminar Speaker: Chuck Doran Title: The Greene-Plesser Construction Revisited Abstract: The first known construction of mirror pairs of Calabi-Yau manifolds was the Greene-Plesser “quotient and resolve” procedure which applies to pencils […]

  • Hypergraph decompositions and their applications

    Speaker: Peter Keevash, Oxford Title: Hypergraph decompositions and their applications Abstract: Many combinatorial objects can be thought of as a hypergraph decomposition, i.e. a partition of (the edge set of) one hypergraph […]

  • Universal relations between entanglement, symmetries, and entropy

    Member Seminar Speaker: Gabriel Wong  Title: Universal relations between entanglement, symmetries, and entropy Abstract: Entanglement is an essential property of quantum systems that distinguishes them from classical ones.   It is responsible […]

  • Curve counting on surfaces and topological strings

    Speaker: Andrea Brini, U Sheffield Title: Curve counting on surfaces and topological strings Abstract: Enumerative geometry is a venerable subfield of Mathematics, with roots dating back to Greek Antiquity and a present […]

  • The Hitchin connection for parabolic G-bundles

    Speaker: Richard Wentworth, University of Maryland Title: The Hitchin connection for parabolic G-bundles Abstract: For a simple and simply connected complex group G, I will discuss some elements of the proof of […]