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 […]
CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am ET Location: online via Zoom Webinar Please register to attend Zoom Webinar registration Speaker: Peng Shan, Tsinghua University Title TBA Beginning in Spring 2020, the CMSA began hosting a lecture series on literature in the mathematical sciences, with […]
Northeast Conference on Categorical Methods Dates: November 6–​7, 2026 Location: CMSA G10, 20 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138 This conference is intended to bring together researchers in all areas of mathematics and mathematical physics whose work involves the use of methods from categorical algebra, abstract homotopy theory, and higher category theory. Our goal is to […]
Colloquium Speaker: James Propp (UMass Lowell) Title: Snake graphs and q-deformed real numbers Abstract: I'll present a statistical-mechanical construction of q-deformed real numbers ]_q, inspired by the q-deformed rational numbers _q of Morier-Genoud and Ovsienko. The new construction admits two equivalent formulations: one in terms of random filters in snake posets and the other in terms of […]
Speaker: Christopher Harshaw (c.harshaw@columbia.edu), Columbia University Title: Design-Based Minimax Theory for Network Experiments Abstract: Network experiments are used throughout the social and medical sciences to investigate causal effects under the presence of interference. While a large body of work has developed improved statistical procedures, the fundamental limits of statistical estimation in these settings is less well understood. […]