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During the 2025–26 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Member Seminar, organized by Iacopo Brivio 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.

  • Duality in Einstein’s Gravity

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Title: Duality in Einstein’s Gravity Abstract: Electric-Magnetic duality has been a key feature behind our understanding of Quantum Field Theory for over a century. In this talk I will describe […]

  • Derivation of AdS/CFT for Vector Models

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar Speaker: Shai Chester Title: Derivation of AdS/CFT for Vector Models Abstract: We derive an explicit map at finite N between the singlet sector of the free and critical O(N) and U(N) […]

  • Random determinants, the elastic manifold, and landscape complexity beyond invariance

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar Speaker: Ben McKenna Title: Random determinants, the elastic manifold, and landscape complexity beyond invariance Abstract: The Kac-Rice formula allows one to study the complexity of high-dimensional Gaussian random functions […]

  • Kahler geometry in twisted materials

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar Speaker: Jie Wang Title: Kahler geometry in twisted materials Abstract: Flatbands are versatile platform for realizing exotic quantum phases due to the enhanced interactions. The canonical example is Landau […]

  • Principal flow, sub-manifold and boundary

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar  Speaker: Zhigang Yao Title: Principal flow, sub-manifold and boundary Abstract: While classical statistics has dealt with observations which are real numbers or elements of a real vector space, nowadays many […]

  • Quantum magnet chains and Kashiwara crystals

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Leonid Rybnikov, Harvard CMSA/National Research University Higher School of Economics Title: Quantum magnet chains and Kashiwara crystals Abstract: Solutions of the algebraic Bethe ansatz for quantum magnet chains are, generally, […]

  • Explicit Ramsey Graphs and Two Source Extractors

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: David Zuckerman, Harvard CMSA/University of Texas at Austin Title: Explicit Ramsey Graphs and Two Source Extractors Abstract: Ramsey showed that any graph on N nodes contains a clique or independent […]

  • Some non-concave dynamic optimization problems in finance

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar Speaker: Shuaijie Qian (Harvard CMSA) Title: Some non-concave dynamic optimization problems in finance Abstract: Non-concave dynamic optimization problems appear in many areas of finance and economics. Most of existing literature […]

  • Quantum trace and length conjecture for hyperbolic knot

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar Speaker: Mauricio Romo Title: Quantum trace and length conjecture for hyperbolic knot Abstract: I will define the quantum trace map for an ideally triangulated hyperbolic knot complement on S^3. This map assigns […]

  • Light states in the interior of CY moduli spaces

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar Speaker: Damian van de Heisteeg Title: Light states in the interior of CY moduli spaces Abstract: In string theory one finds that states become massless as one approaches boundaries in […]

  • Compactness and Anticompactness Principles in Set Theory

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar Speaker: Alejandro Poveda Title: Compactness and Anticompactness Principles in Set Theory Abstract: Several fundamental properties in Topology, Algebra or Logic are expressed in terms of Compactness Principles.For instance, a […]

  • AI and Theorem Proving

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Member Seminar Speaker: Mike Douglas Title: AI and Theorem Proving Abstract: We survey interactive theorem proving and the Lean theorem prover, and the use of AI and large language models […]