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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.

  • Member Seminar

    On using ML for Economics

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

    CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Sergiy Verstyuk Title: On using ML for Economics Abstract: I will introduce some tools from the field of machine learning and discuss how they can be leveraged to get […]

  • Member Seminar

    On the landscape of 4d N=2 SCFTs

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

    CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Robert Moscrop, Harvard CMSA Title: On the landscape of 4d N=2 SCFTs Abstract: Four-dimensional conformal field theories with sufficient (N = 2) supersymmetry are highly constrained. So much […]

  • Member Seminar

    Quasilocal mass for general domains in space

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

    CMSA Member Seminar Speaker: Jue Liu Title: Quasilocal mass for general domains in space Abstract: Diffeomorphism-invariant quasilocal mass in classical general relativity has been studied for decades, but it is still an […]

  • Abundance for mixed characteristic threefolds

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio (CMSA) Title: Abundance for mixed characteristic threefolds Abstract: The Minimal Model Program (MMP) predicts that every algebraic variety X is birational to either a fibration […]

  • Communication Complexity of Combinatorial Auctions

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Tomer Ezra (CMSA) Title: Communication Complexity of Combinatorial Auctions Abstract: We study the communication complexity of welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions with m items and two subadditive […]

  • High-dimensional learning of narrow neural networks

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Hugo Cui, CMSA Title: High-dimensional learning of narrow neural networks Abstract: This talk explores the interplay between neural network architectures and data structure through the lens of high-dimensional asymptotics. […]

  • Scattering Amplitude from a Twistor Point of View

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Keyou Zeng Title: Scattering Amplitude from a Twistor Point of View Abstract: Scattering amplitude is a key quantity in quantum field theory. Although challenging to compute at […]

  • Positive mass and rigidity theorems in Riemannian geometry  

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal Title: Positive mass and rigidity theorems in Riemannian geometry Abstract: Positive mass theorem proved by Schoen-Yau, Witten, Taubes-Parker is one of the most important results in […]

  • Formality Theorem and Webs

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Ahsan Khan Title: Formality Theorem and Webs Abstract: The “formality theorem” of Kontsevich was a key result that implies that every Poisson manifold admits a deformation quantization. […]

  • ADHM spaces and their quantizations

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Vasily Krylov, CMSA Title: ADHM spaces and their quantizations Abstract: In their paper “Construction of Instantons,” Atiyah, Drinfeld, Hitchin, and Manin introduced an algebraic construction of the […]

  • Quantum Criticality in Black Hole Scattering

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Uri Kol Title: Quantum Criticality in Black Hole Scattering Abstract: Perturbation theory around rotating black holes captures a few important effects in the physics of gravitational waves […]

  • Identity crises phenomena in the large cardinal hierarchy

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Alejandro Poveda Title: Identity crises phenomena in the large cardinal hierarchy Abstract: It is well-known that certain mathematical questions cannot be answered on the grounds of the standard foundation […]