Fall CMSA Welcome Event
Fall CMSA Welcome Event Date: September 3, 2026 Time: 4:15 pm Location: CMSA Common Room, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.
Fall CMSA Welcome Event Date: September 3, 2026 Time: 4:15 pm Location: CMSA Common Room, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.
The Geometry of Machine Learning 2026 Dates: September 8–11, 2026 Location: Harvard CMSA, Room G10, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 & via Zoom Webinar Large language models are presently, and will increasingly, be complemented by other dimensions of intelligence: formal verification and energy-based optimizers, becoming parts of larger ecosystems. Can AIs reason geometrically and […]
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Nikita Sopenko, CMSA Title: Quasi-local algebras and invertible phases of matter Abstract: In the algebraic approach to quantum field theory, observables localized in bounded regions form a net of von Neumann algebras generating what is known as a quasi-local algebra. I will discuss the classification of quasi-local algebras under […]
https://youtu.be/0wL8NlhxXcU AI for the Working Mathematician Speaker: Daniel Litt, University of Toronto Title: Working with LLMs to do high quality math Abstract: Much hay has been made of the capabilities of LLMs to do math autonomously, and indeed frontier models have resolved some long-standing, interesting open questions. But our goal is not to produce papers, but […]
Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar Speaker: Brian Williams, Boston University Title: Higher Virasoro algebras Abstract: I will introduce and classify central extensions of the dg Lie algebra of derived global sections of the tangent sheaf on the punctured d-disk for d > 1. Then, I will formulate and sketch the proof of a formal and […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Elena Kim Title: A beginner's guide to quantum unique ergodicity Abstract: The Quantum Unique Ergodicity conjecture is one of the main open questions in quantum chaos. I will explain the conjecture and the progress towards its resolution.
CMSA Special Lecture Time: 2:30 pm ET Date: Friday, Sep. 11, 2026 Location: Harvard Science Center Hall A & via Zoom Webinar Lecture Video https://youtu.be/TcEefrWrddA With the announcement this week that AI has finished off a solution to one of the Millennium Prize Problems, the Harvard CMSA will host this special lecture to […]
Lagrangian Floer theory and Applications Program Dates: September 15–November 21, 2026 Location: CMSA G10, 20 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138 This thematic program will focus on recent developments in Lagrangian Floer theory and applications. These include the development of family Floer theory, degeneration techniques, Floer homotopy theory in the Lagrangian case, Floer theory in prime […]
Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed Title: Path integral quantization of particles via probability Abstract: This is the beginning of our study of Sourav Chatterjee's Gauge Theory Lecture Notes, a book-in-progress. This lecture follows Chapter 1, which covers the path integral quantization of a single particle. We begin in real time with […]
Ahlfors Lectures Dates: September 16 & 17, 2026 Time: 4:00–5:00 pm Location: Science Center Hall A Speaker: Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford) Register to attend in person or online at: https://www.math.harvard.edu/event/ahlfors-lecture-series-mohammed-abouzaid/ September 16, 2026 Title: Framed bordism and nearby Lagrangians Abstract: The problem of understanding Lagrangian embeddings in symplectic manifolds remains a mystery. The simplest class […]
https://youtu.be/p_tb0IHjo74 CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Date: September 16, 2026 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am ET Location: CMSA G10, 20 Garden Street & via Zoom Webinar Speaker: Robert E. Gompf, University of Texas, Austin Title: On classifying smoothings of R^4–from the beginning to the present Abstract: The field of 4-manifold topology was born around 1981 with two […]
CMSA Special Seminar Speaker: Thanasis Fokas, University of Cambridge Title: Deformations to the Complex Plane, Novel Asymptotic Techniques, and the Large t- Asymptotics of the Riemann Zeta Function Abstract: The Unified Transform (also known as the Fokas method) is a powerful new method for solving boundary value problems for linear and for integrable nonlinear PDEs. For […]