During the 2026–27 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a seminar organized by Mike Freedman on Fridays from 2:00–4:30 pm.

The seminar will take place in Room G10 at the CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA and will also be broadcast via Zoom.

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  • Freedman CMSA Seminar

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

    Freedman CMSA Seminar   2:00-3:30 pm ET Speaker: Mike Freedman, Harvard CMSA Title: Detecting hidden structures in linear maps Abstract: I'll consider the problem of detecting spectral features and tensor structures within linear maps both in a quantum and classical contexts. In the quantum context there is the question of whether a Hamiltonian is local, […]

  • Freedman CMSA Seminar

    Virtual

    Freedman CMSA Seminar *Note: via Zoom only* 2:00-3:30 pm ET Speaker: Matt Hastings, Microsoft Quantum Program Title: Invertible Phases of Matter and Quantum Cellular Automata: Dimensions One to Three Abstract: A Quantum Cellular Automaton (QCA) is a *-automorphism of the algebra of local operators. While local quantum circuits provide one example of QCA, we are […]