2020-2021 Colloquium, Wednesdays
During the Spring 2021 semester, and until further notice, all seminars will take place virtually. The 2020-2021 Colloquium will take place every Wednesday from 9:00 to 10:00am ET virtually, using zoom. All CMSA […]
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During the 2026–27 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Colloquium series, organized by Tobias Schmidt, Houcine Ben Dali, Francesco Mori, and Michal Shavit.
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.
To subscribe to the CMSA Colloquium Mailing list, please visit this link.
The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.
Sequences: random, structured or something in between
Speaker: Fan Chung (University of California, San Diego) Title: Sequences: random, structured or something in between Abstract: There are many fundamental problems concerning sequences that arise in many areas of mathematics and […]
A new program on quantum subgroups
Speaker: Zhengwei Liu (Harvard Physics) Title: A new program on quantum subgroups Abstract: Quantum subgroups have been studied since the 1980s. The A, D, E classification of subgroups of quantum SU(2) is a […]
Essential concepts of Causal inference—a remarkable history
Speaker: Don Rubin (Harvard Statistics) Title: Essential concepts of Causal inference—a remarkable history Abstract: I believe that a deep understanding of cause and effect, and how to estimate causal effects from data, complete with the associated mathematical […]
Computer-assisted analysis of singularity formation of a regularized 3D Euler equation
Speaker: Tom Hou, Caltech Title: Computer-assisted analysis of singularity formation of a regularized 3D Euler equation
Harmonic functions and the chromatic polynomial
Speaker: Richard Kenyon, Brown Title: Harmonic functions and the chromatic polynomial
A Mean Field View of the Landscape of Two-Layers Neural Networks
Speaker: Andrea Montanari (Stanford) Title: A Mean Field View of the Landscape of Two-Layers Neural Networks Abstract: Multi-layer neural networks are among the most powerful models in machine learning and yet, the fundamental […]
Black Holes and Naked Singularities
Speaker: Ramesh Narayan, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University Title: Black Holes and Naked Singularities Abstract: Black Hole solutions in General Relativity contain Event Horizons and Singularities. Astrophysicists have discovered two […]
Graph Structure in Polynomial Systems: Chordal Networks
Speaker: Pablo Parillo (MIT) Title: Graph Structure in Polynomial Systems: Chordal Networks Abstract: The sparsity structure of a system of polynomial equations or an optimization problem can be naturally described by a […]
On the fibration structure of known Calabi-Yau threefolds
Speaker: Washington Tayor (MIT) Title: On the fibration structure of known Calabi-Yau threefolds Abstract: In recent years, there is increasing evidence from a variety of directions, including the physics of F-theory and […]
Exploring the (massive) space of graph partitions
Speaker: Moon Duchin (Tufts) Title: Exploring the (massive) space of graph partitions Abstract: The problem of electoral redistricting can be set up as a search of the space of partitions of a graph (representing the […]
The virtual fundamental class in symplectic geometry
Speaker: Dusa McDuff (Columbia University) Title: The virtual fundamental class in symplectic geometry Abstract: Essential to many constructions and applications of symplectic geometry is the ability to count J-holomorphic curves. The moduli spaces […]