During the 2026–27 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Member Seminar, organized by Elena Kim and Lorenzo Riva.
This seminar will take place weekly on Fridays from 12:00–1:00 pm Eastern Time.
The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.
Member Seminar Speaker: Jue Liu Title: Instability of naked singularities in general relativity Abstract: One of the fundamental problems in mathematical relativity is the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, proposed by Penrose, which […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Michael Douglas Title: Knowledge Graph Embeddings and Inference Abstract: A knowledge graph (KG) is a data structure which represents entities and relations as the vertices and edges of […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Juven Wang Title: C-P-T Fractionalization, and Quantum Criticality Beyond the Standard Model Abstract: Discrete spacetime symmetries of parity P or reflection R, and time-reversal T, act naively […]
Speaker: Du Pei Title: Wall-crossing from Higgs bundles to vortices Abstract: Quantum field theories can often be used to uncover hidden algebraic structures in geometry and hidden geometric structures in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Kan Lin Title: China’s financial regulatory reform, financial opening-up, and Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Abstract: In this talk, I will explain the overall situation of China’s financial […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Dan Kapec Title: Black Holes, 2D Gravity, and Random Matrices Abstract: I will discuss old and new connections between black hole physics, 2D quantum gravity, and random matrix theory. […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Changji Xu Title: On the solution space of the Ising perceptron model Abstract: Consider the discrete cube $\{-1,1\}^N$ and a random collection of half spaces which includes each […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Max Wiesner Title: Light strings, strong coupling, and the Swampland Abstract: In this talk, I will start by reviewing central ideas of the so-called Swampland Program. The Swampland […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Daniel Junghans Title: AdS with Scale Separation Abstract: I will talk about Anti-de Sitter solutions in string theory with a parametric separation between the AdS curvature scale and the […]