• Echo Chamber: RL Post-training Amplifies Behaviors Learned in Pretraining

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Samy Jelassi, CMSA Title: Echo Chamber: RL Post-training Amplifies Behaviors Learned in Pretraining Abstract: Reinforcement Learning has become a crucial step in training state-of-the-art language models such as […]

  • Summer School in Total Positivity and Quantum Field Theory

    CMSA 20 Garden Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 United States

    Summer School in Total Positivity and Quantum Field Theory Dates: June 2–4, 2025 Location: CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA In the past decade, there has been a great deal […]

  • Fukaya category and gauge theory

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani, Harvard CMSA Title: Fukaya category and gauge theory Abstract: After setting up some background, I will discuss the Fukaya $A_\ infty$-category […]

  • Fall CMSA Welcome Event

    CMSA 20 Garden Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 United States

    Fall CMSA Welcome Event Date: September 3, 2025 Time: 4:00 pm Location: CMSA Common Room, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA   All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.  

  • Higher categories of cobordisms

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Lorenzo Riva Title: Higher categories of cobordisms Abstract: I will give a brief introduction to topological field theories from a higher categorical perspective. After […]

  • Big Data Conference 2025

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

    Big Data Conference 2025 Dates: Sep. 11–12, 2025 Location: Harvard University CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge & via Zoom The Big Data Conference features speakers from the Harvard community as […]

  • The Geometry of Machine Learning

    CMSA 20 Garden Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 United States

    The Geometry of Machine Learning Dates: September 15–18, 2025 Location: Harvard CMSA, Room G10, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Despite the extraordinary progress in large language models, mathematicians suspect […]