During the 2024–25 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Member Seminar, organized by Iacopo Brivio and Tomer Ezra.

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.

Smooth projective fibrations over the projective line and their sections

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio Title: Smooth projective fibrations over the projective line and their sections Abstract: Suppose $f\colon X\to \mathbf{CP}^1$ is a smooth projective fibration, is it then true that $f$ has […]

Jack polynomials and enumeration of non-orientable maps

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Houcine Ben Dali, Harvard CMSA Title: Jack polynomials and enumeration of non-orientable maps Abstract: A map is a graph embedded on a surface, which may be orientable or not. […]

The Combinatorics of the Amplituhedron – Tiles, Tilings, and Cluster Algebras

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Matteo Parisi Title: The Combinatorics of the Amplituhedron – Tiles, Tilings, and Cluster Algebras Abstract: The amplituhedron is the image of the positive Grassmannian—the region of the Grassmannian […]

A Tetrahedral Approach to Calabi-Yau Geometry

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Charles Doran, CMSA Title: A Tetrahedral Approach to Calabi-Yau Geometry Abstract:  We will open with a quick introduction to the what and why of Calabi-Yau geometry.  Following […]

The Competition Complexity of Dynamic Pricing

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Tomer Ezra Title: The Competition Complexity of Dynamic Pricing Abstract: One of the most fundamental questions in mechanism design is the tradeoff between simplicity and optimality. A canonical example of this […]

Learning diffusion models in high-dimensions

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Hugo Cui Title: Learning diffusion models in high-dimensions Abstract: We consider the problem of learning a generative model parametrized by a two-layer auto-encoder, and trained with online […]

Member Seminar

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Puskar Mondal

Member Seminar

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Han Shao  

Member Seminar

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Bowen Yang  

Member Seminar

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Alejandro Poveda  

Member Seminar

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Sergiy Verstyuk  

Member Seminar

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

Member Seminar Speaker: Samy Jelassi