Black Holes as Quantum Systems
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 […]
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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.
Extension of pluricanonical forms in positive and mixed characteristics
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
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
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
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
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
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
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA 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
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA 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
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA 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 […]
Symmetries and algebraicity in the flux landscape
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Damian van de Heisteeg (Harvard CMSA) Title: Symmetries and algebraicity in the flux landscape Abstract: In this talk I consider potentials coming from fluxes in string theory. The minima […]
Integrability and Hidden Symmetries in Black Hole Dynamics
CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Uri Kol (Harvard CMSA) Title: Integrability and Hidden Symmetries in Black Hole Dynamics Abstract: The last decade has produced a number of remarkable discoveries, such as the first direct observation […]