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  • CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Martin Bridson: Profinite rigidity: Chasing finite shadows of infinite groups

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    CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Date: March 10, 2026 Time: 8:45 - 10:15 am ET Location: Harvard Science Center Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA &  via Zoom Webinar Speaker: Martin Bridson FRS is the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute. Title: Profinite rigidity: Chasing finite shadows […]

  • TQFTs do not detect the Milnor sphere

    Science Center 507 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

    Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Lorenzo Riva, Harvard CMSA Title: TQFTs do not detect the Milnor sphere Abstract: I will talk about the recent paper of Gripaios and Randall-Williams with that title, where they prove that a functorial TQFT (i.e. a symmetric monoidal functor from the n-dimensional bordism category into a suitably […]

  • CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Nicolai Reshetikhin, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University

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

    CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Date: April 22, 2026 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am ET Location: via Zoom Speaker: Nicolai Reshetikhin, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University Details TBA   Registration is required. Zoom webinar registration link   Beginning in Spring 2020, the CMSA began hosting a lecture series on literature in the mathematical sciences, with a […]