Members’ Seminar
The CMSA Members’ Seminar will occur every Friday at 9:30am ET on Zoom. All CMSA postdocs/members are required to attend the weekly CMSA Members’ Seminars, as well as the weekly CMSA […]
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CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Noncommutative Geometry, the Spectral Aspect
Alain Connes (Collège de France) Title: Noncommutative Geometry, the Spectral Aspect Abstract: This talk will be a survey of the spectral side of noncommutative geometry, presenting the new paradigm of spectral […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Subfactors–in Memory of Vaughan Jones
Zhengwei Liu (Tsinghua University) Title: Subfactors–in Memory of Vaughan Jones Abstract: Jones initiated modern subfactor theory in the early 1980s and investigated this area for his whole academic life. Subfactor theory […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Theorems of Torelli type
Eduard Jacob Neven Looijenga (Tsinghua University & Utrecht University) Title: Theorems of Torelli type Abstract: Given a closed manifold of even dimension 2n, then Hodge showed around 1950 that a kählerian complex […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Is relativity compatible with quantum theory?
Arthur Jaffe (Harvard University) Title: Is relativity compatible with quantum theory? Abstract: We review the background, mathematical progress, and open questions in the effort to determine whether one can combine quantum […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Michael Atiyah: Geometry and Physics
Nigel Hitchin (University of Oxford) Title: Michael Atiyah: Geometry and Physics Abstract: In mid-career, as an internationally renowned mathematician, Michael Atiyah discovered that some problems in physics responded to current work […]