CMSA Q&A Seminar: Alexei Borodin
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Alexei Borodin (MIT) Topic: Connections between physics and probability
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During the 2026–27 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Question and Answer (Q&A) Seminar, organized by Tobias Schmidt, Bowen Yang, and Saman Habibi Esfahani.
The seminar will meet weekly on Wednesdays from 12:00–1:00 pm (Eastern Time) in the common room at the CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138.
CMSA members may submit questions and suggest possible speakers using this form (link).
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Thomas Grimm
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Thomas Grimm, Utrecht & CMSA Topic: What is o-minimality and what is it good for?
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Paul Seidel, MIT
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Paul Seidel, MIT Topic: Fukaya categories of Landau-Ginzburg models
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Dan Freed, CMSA
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed, CMSA Topic: Constructions of homotopy types in geometry and physics
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Miami
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Miami Title: New Birational Invariants Abstract: We will introduce the origins of the main ideas of the theory of atoms. Applications follow. Equivariant and mixed atoms will be considered.
CMSA Q&A Seminar: James Eldred Pascoe, Drexel University
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: James Eldred Pascoe, Drexel University Title: (What is) The tracial fundamental group and free universal monodromy? Abstract: We introduce the tracial fundamental group to classify the analytic continuation of functions that are locally behave like the trace of natural matrix valued functions. While globally defined natural matrix-valued functions (known as free […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Dan Freed, Harvard
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed, Harvard Topic: How does one navigate the job market as a postdoc in 2026?
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Lauren Williams, Harvard
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Lauren Williams, Harvard Topic: The First Proof Project
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Hugh Woodin, Harvard
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Hugh Woodin, Harvard Title: Truth, proof, and AI
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Denis Auroux, Harvard
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Denis Auroux, Harvard Title: What is Lagrangian Floer homology?
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Shaoyun Bai, MIT
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Shaoyun Bai, MIT Title: What is a virtual fundamental cycle? (ICM Series: On the work of John Pardon) Abstract: One of Pardon’s important contribution to symplectic topology is a new approach to constructing virtual fundamental cycles/chains for moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic maps. As a former PhD student of John, my own […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Discussion on OpenAI Math Papers
Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCMSA Q&A Seminar Title: Discussion on OpenAI Math Papers Abstract: You have likely seen that OpenAI released 722 math papers. For the Q&A meeting on Wednesday October 14, we would like to gather to discuss them and hear informal, short presentations (say 10 minutes maximum) from anyone who is engaging with at least one of the […]