During the 2026–27 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Colloquium series, organized by Tobias Schmidt, Houcine Ben Dali, and Francesco Mori.
It will take place on Mondays from 4:30 – 5:30 pm (Eastern Time) in Room G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street. All CMSA postdocs/members are required to attend the weekly CMSA Colloquium series as well as the weekly CMSA Members’ Seminars.
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The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.
Colloquium Speaker: Anar Akhmedov, University of Minnesota Title: The Geography of Symplectic 4-Manifolds Abstract: The symplectic geography problem, originally posed by J. McCarthy-J. Wolfson and R. Gompf, asks which ordered pairs of nonnegative integers are realized as (\chi(X),c_1^2(X)) for a symplectic 4-manifold X, where \chi(X)=(e(X)+\sigma(X))/4. In this talk, we will address the geography of simply […]
Colloquium Speaker: Ivan Corwin (Columbia University) To subscribe or unsubscribe to the colloquium mailing list, please visit this link.
Colloquium Speaker: Lukas Müller (LMU Munich) To subscribe or unsubscribe to the colloquium mailing list, please visit this link.
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 […]
Colloquium Speaker: Ewain Gwynne, U Chicago To subscribe or unsubscribe to the colloquium mailing list, please visit this link.
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Colloquium Speaker: Roberto De Leo, Howard University To subscribe or unsubscribe to the colloquium mailing list, please visit this link.
Colloquium Speaker: Nina Holden (NYU) To subscribe or unsubscribe to the colloquium mailing list, please visit this link.
Colloquium Speaker: Giulio Biroli, ENS Paris To subscribe or unsubscribe to the colloquium mailing list, please visit this link.