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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.

  • Dynamics of active nematic defects on cones

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Farzan Vafa Title: Dynamics of active nematic defects on cones Abstract: In the first part of the talk, we investigate the ground-state configurations of two-dimensional liquid crystals with […]

  • Hints of Flat Space Holography

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Dan Kapec Title: Hints of Flat Space Holography Abstract: Despite our detailed understanding of holography in Anti-de Sitter space, flat space holography remains somewhat mysterious. “Celestial CFT” is a […]

  • New bounds on lattice covering volumes, and nearly uniform covers

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Barak Weiss   Title: New bounds on lattice covering volumes, and nearly uniform covers Abstract: Let L be a lattice in R^n and let K be a convex body. […]

  • Categorical Symmetry of the Standard Model from Gravitational Anomaly 

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Juven Wang Title: Categorical Symmetry of the Standard Model from Gravitational Anomaly Abstract: In the Standard Model, the total "sterile right-handed" neutrino number n_{νR} is not equal to […]

  • Randomized algorithms in combinatorics

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Michael Simkin Title: Randomized algorithms in combinatorics Abstract: Randomized algorithms have been a computational workhorse for almost as long as there have been computers. Surprisingly, such algorithms can […]

  • Quantum Gravity constraints beyond asymptotic regimes

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Max Wiesner Title: Quantum Gravity constraints beyond asymptotic regimes Abstract: Not every effective field theory that is consistent in the absence of gravity can be completed to a […]

  • Monotonicity of quasilocal mass for asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Jue Liu Title: Monotonicity of quasilocal mass for asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds Abstract: The study of quasilocal mass in general relativity has a long history. In previous papers by many […]

  • Optimal Dynamic Allocation: Simplicity through Information Design

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Faidra Monachou Title: Optimal Dynamic Allocation: Simplicity through Information Design Abstract: We study dynamic nonmonetary markets where objects are allocated to unit-demand agents with private types. An agent’s […]

  • Spectral gap and two-point functions in spin glasses

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Changji Xu Title: Spectral gap and two-point functions in spin glasses Abstract: Many have worked on spin glass models over the past 50 years, including physicists, mathematicians, […]

  • Recent progress on coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills dynamics

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal Title: Recent progress on coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills dynamics Abstract: I will discuss my recent work with prof. S.T. Yau on Einstein-Yang-Mills theory. I’ll discuss the main […]

  • On complete Calabi-Yau metrics and some related Monge-Ampere equations

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Freid Tong Title: On complete Calabi-Yau metrics and some related Monge-Ampere equations Abstract: We will give a basic introduction to constructions for complete Calabi-Yau metrics. A systematic […]

  • Toroidal Positive Mass Theorem

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Aghil Alaee Title: Toroidal Positive Mass Theorem Abstract: In this talk, we review the positive mass conjecture in general relativity and prove a toroidal version of this conjecture in an […]