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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.

  • 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 […]

  • Symmetries and algebraicity in the flux landscape

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

    CMSA 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

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

    CMSA 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 […]

  • Contract Design in Combinatorial Settings

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

    CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Tomer Ezra (Harvard CMSA) Title: Contract Design in Combinatorial Settings Abstract: We study two combinatorial settings of the contract design problem, in which a principal wants to delegate […]

  • Symmetry in quantum field theory

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

    CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed (Harvard Mathematics and CMSA) Title: Symmetry in quantum field theory Abstract: In joint work with Greg Moore and Constantin Teleman we show how ideas […]

  • Modularity and Fibrations in Mirror Symmetry

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

    CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Chuck Doran (Harvard CMSA) Title: Modularity and Fibrations in Mirror Symmetry Abstract: We will introduce appearances of modularity in the study both of families of Calabi-Yau threefolds and […]