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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.

  • Random matrices and large deviations 

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Benjamin McKenna Title: Random matrices and large deviations Abstract: We give a generalist overview of random matrices and their (a)typical behaviors. In recent years, classical results have been complemented by […]

  • On the Breakdown of Einstein’s Gravity

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal (CMSA) Title: On the Breakdown of Einstein's Gravity Abstract: It is important to understand under which conditions, the solutions of non-linear hyperbolic PDEs break down in finite […]

  • Black Holes as Quantum Systems

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Daniel Kapec (CMSA) Title: Black Holes as Quantum Systems Abstract: To an outside observer, a black hole appears to be an ordinary quantum mechanical system with finite entropy and […]

  • Extension of pluricanonical forms in positive and mixed characteristics

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio (CMSA) Title: Extension of pluricanonical forms in positive and mixed characteristics Abstract: The geometry of a complex manifold $X$ is to a large extent determined by its […]

  • Deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models and their fibers

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Zi Yang Kang Title: Deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models and their fibers Abstract: In mirror symmetry, the dual object to a Fano variety is a Landau-Ginzburg model. Broadly, a […]

  • A quasi-local mass in general relativity

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Aghil Alaee Title: A quasi-local mass in general relativity Abstract: One of the fundamental open problems in geometric analysis and mathematical relativity is constructing a (universal) energy/mass quantity to […]

  • An introduction to mixture of experts in deep learning

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Samy Jelassi Title: An introduction to mixture of experts in deep learning Abstract: Scale has opened new frontiers in natural language processing – but at a high cost. […]

  • Open Problems in Physics and Novel Solutions from Math

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Juven Wang Title: Open Problems in Physics and Novel Solutions from Math   Abstract: (1) How do neutrinos obtain tiny mass and oscillate between e, \mu, \tau three […]

  • On compactness phenomena

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Alejandro Poveda Title: On compactness phenomena Abstract: In this presentation I shall be preoccupied with compactness phenomena in set theory. Compactness is the phenomenon by which the local properties of […]

  • Anti-Iitaka conjecture in positive characteristic

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

    CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio (Harvard) Title: Anti-Iitaka conjecture in positive characteristic Abstract: Given a smooth projective variety, its Kodaira dimension kappa(K_X) is an important invariant that measures the rate of growth […]

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

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

    CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Freid Tong (Harvard CMSA) Title: On complete Calabi-Yau metrics and Monge-Ampere equations Abstract: Calabi-Yau metrics are central objects in K\"ahler geometry and also string theory. The existence of Calabi-Yau metrics on compact […]

  • The spectrum of some nonlinear random matrices

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

    CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Benjamin McKenna (Harvard) Title: The spectrum of some nonlinear random matrices Abstract: Modern data science often requires one to consider "nonlinear random matrices," a broad term for random-matrix models whose […]