During the 2025–26 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a seminar on Geometry and Quantum Theory, organized by Dan Freed and Vasily Krylov. The seminar will meet on Tuesdays from 4:15–6:30 pm (Eastern Time).

The seminar will take place in Science Center 507, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA.

  • Factorization Homology

    Science Center Hall E 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speakers: Sunghyuk Park and Vasily Krylov, Harvard CMSA Title: Factorization Homology

  • Blob homology

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Sunghyuk Park, Harvard CMSA Title: Blob homology

  • Discussion of Integrating quantum groups over surfaces

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Ben Gammage, Harvard University Title: Discussion of Integrating quantum groups over surfaces https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04652

  • Introduction to the probabilistic approach to Louville theory

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Leon Liu, Harvard Title: Introduction to the probabilistic approach to Louville theory Abstract: I will give an introduction to the probabilistic approach to Louville theory, following Hairer's notes.

  • Introduction to the probabilistic approach to Louville theory III

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Bowen Yang, CMSA Title: Introduction to the probabilistic approach to Louville theory III Abstract: I will continue with the construction of Liouville CFT from probabilistic methods, following a review by Guillarmou, Kupiainen, and Rhodes (arXiv:2403.12780). The talk will emphasize technical aspects of Gaussian free fields (GFF) and contrast them with Brownian […]

  • Instantons on Taub-NUT space and Bow Construction

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Anadil Saeed Rao, Northeastern University Title: Instantons on Taub-NUT space and Bow Construction Abstract: In this talk I will discuss Yang-Mills Instantons in a very special geometric setting: the Taub-NUT space, which itself is a Gravitational Instanton. In the first part of the talk I will review the essentials of gravitational […]

  • Classifying Space for Phases of Matrix Product States

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speakers: Bryan Wang Peng Jun (Harvard) and Bowen Yang (CMSA) Title: Classifying Space for Phases of Matrix Product States Abstract: In this talk we will introduce recent work of Beaudry-Hermele-Pflaum-Qi-Spiegel-Stephen (arXiv:2501.14241), on constructing a classifying space for phases of matrix product states (MPS).

  • Algebraic approach to the bow construction

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speakers: Anadil Saeed Rao (Northeastern) and Vasily Krylov (CMSA/Harvard) Title: Algebraic approach to the bow construction Abstract: Anadil will finish his part of the talk. Vasily will then explain how to understand moduli spaces of instantons on R^4, monopoles on R^3, and instantons on Taub-NUT spaces algebraically as so-called bow varieties. We […]