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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.

  • The Rozansky-Witten field theory in the functorial TQFT formalism

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Lorenzo Riva Title: The Rozansky-Witten field theory in the functorial TQFT formalism Abstract: This will be a broad talk about the topic of my PhD thesis. We […]

  • Analytic Spread of Binomial Edge Ideals

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Stephen Landsittel, CMSA Title: Analytic Spread of Binomial Edge Ideals Abstract: To an ideal J in a polynomial ring R over a field K we associate its analytic […]

  • Skein remain the same

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Sunghyuk Park, CMSA Title: Skein remain the same Abstract: The count of holomorphic curves in a Calabi-Yau 3-fold ending on a Lagrangian is famously not deformation invariant, but Ekholm […]

  • Classification of 2D Stabilizer States

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Bowen Yang Title: Classification of 2D Stabilizer States Abstract: I will explain how translation-invariant two-dimensional stabilizer states are completely classified by finite abelian groups with nondegenerate quadratic […]

  • Optimal learning protocols via statistical physics and control theory

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Francesco Mori, CMSA Title: Optimal learning protocols via statistical physics and control theory Abstract: Behind the impressive performance of modern machine learning lies a toolkit of training tricks, from […]

  • A combinatorial formula for interpolation Macdonald polynomials

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Houcine Ben Dali, Harvard CMSA Title: A combinatorial formula for interpolation Macdonald polynomials Abstract: In 1996, Knop and Sahi introduced a remarkable family of inhomogeneous symmetric polynomials, […]

  • Some results about saturation

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Stephen Landsittel Title: Some results about saturation Abstract: Given a local ring R we can ask when saturation of ideals in R commutes with other operations on […]

  • Lie algebra cohomology and Seiberg-Witten theory

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Ahsan Khan, Harvard CMSA Title: Lie algebra cohomology and Seiberg-Witten theory Abstract: I will discuss how a certain (relative) Lie algebra cochain complex categorifies the Schur index […]

  • A leisurely stroll through the theory of adjunctions

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Lorenzo Riva, Harvard CMSA Title: A leisurely stroll through the theory of adjunctions Abstract: Adjoint functors (and, more generally, adjunctions in a 2-category) are ubiquitous in algebra […]

  • Theory of Task-Adapted Dynamics in Large Recurrent Neural Networks

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Blake Bordelon, CMSA Title: Theory of Task-Adapted Dynamics in Large Recurrent Neural Networks Abstract: Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) encode expressive and flexible dynamical systems which can adapt […]

  • Gauge theory, from low dimensions to higher dimensions and back

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani, CMSA Title: Gauge theory, from low dimensions to higher dimensions and back Abstract: Almost thirty years ago, Donaldson and Thomas proposed extending powerful ideas […]