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  • CMSA Q&A Seminar 2/20/2024

    CMSA Q&A Seminar
    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Solomon Friedberg, Boston College Question: What is the Langlands program?

  • CMSA Q&A Seminar 2/6/2024

    CMSA Q&A Seminar
    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speaker: Greg Moore, Rutgers University Question: What is supersymmetry?

  • CMSA/MATH Bi-Annual Gathering

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

    On Friday, Jan. 26, 2024 the CMSA will host the CMSA/MATH Bi-Annual Gathering for Harvard CMSA and Math affiliates in the CMSA Common Room at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138.

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 12/5/2023

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Mike Douglas (Harvard CMSA) and Anurag Anshu (Harvard Computer Science) Topics: Mike Douglas: What are scaling laws in deep learning? Anurag Anshu: What's the difference between classical information theory and quantum information theory (or classical computation vs quantum computation)?  

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 11/7/2023

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Michael Hopkins (Harvard Math) and Minhea Popa (Harvard Math) Topics: Mike Hopkins: What are topological modular forms? Mihnea Popa: What is the abundance conjecture and why should it to be true?  

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 10/24/23

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Xi Yin (Harvard Physics) and Peter Kronheimer (Harvard Math) Topics: Xi Yin: What is string field theory? Peter Kronheimer: What is Seiberg-Witten theory?

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 10/10/23

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math and CMSA) and Sunghyuk Park (CMSA) Topics: Dan Freed: What is Dijkgraaf-Witten theory? Sunghyuk Park: What happened at the Clay Math Institute Workshop?

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 10/3/2023

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Dan Freed (Harvard Math & CMSA) and Dan Berwick-Evans (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Topics: Dan Freed: What is framing anomaly? How is it different from other anomalies? Dan Berwick-Evans: What is Atiyah-Singer index theorem?

  • CMSA Q and A Seminar 9/26/2023

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

    CMSA Q and A Seminar Speakers: Michael Douglas (CMSA) and Mayuko Yamashita (Kyoto University) Topics: Michael Douglas: "What is non-commutative field theory?" Mayuko Yamashita: "What is differential cohomology?"

  • CMSA/Math Fall Gathering

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

    Friday, Sep 22, 2023 4:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.

  • Modularity of Landau-Ginzburg Models

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

    Member Seminar Speaker: Chuck Doran Title: Modularity of Landau-Ginzburg Models Abstract:  Fano varieties are the basic building blocks of algebraic varieties.  Smooth Fano varieties have been classified in dimensions one (the projective line), two (del Pezzo surfaces), and three (Mori-Mukai classification).  What does Mirror Symmetry have to say about such classifications?  By studying the Landau-Ginzburg models mirror to […]