AI for the Working Mathematician Speaker: Andrew Sutherland, MIT Title: Doing mathematics with AI agents: A case study Abstract: I will describe a project with four human collaborators and a varying cast of AI agents that ran from summer 2025 to summer 2026, what we learned about working with AI agents in the process, and what I have learned since […]
Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar Speaker: Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania Title: Recent developments in super geometry Abstract: String theory leads naturally to consideration of Super Riemann surfaces and their super moduli spaces. Much of the classical theory of curves and their moduli, e.g. existence of a Deligne-Mumford compactification, has natural super-analogues. But a number […]
Northeast Conference on Categorical Methods Dates: November 6–7, 2026 Location: CMSA G10, 20 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138 This conference is intended to bring together researchers in all areas of mathematics and mathematical physics whose work involves the use of methods from categorical algebra, abstract homotopy theory, and higher category theory. Our goal is to […]
Colloquium Speaker: Lukas Müller (LMU Munich) Title: Unitary extended topological field theories and higher Hermitian objects Abstract: Mathematically, topological field theories study the representation theory of manifolds undercutting and gluing. Extended topological field theories take this idea a step further by allowing one to cut manifolds in multiple directions, leading to a formulation in terms […]
Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Nikita Sopenko (CMSA) Title: Perturbative renormalization Abstract: I will discuss the idea of perturbative renormalization in the simplest case of \phi^4 theory following Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 of the book.
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Johannes von Oswald (Google)
Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar Speaker: Roland Bittleston (Harvard University) Title: Nonlinear Schrödinger and Korteweg–de Vries from 4d Chern–Simons theory Abstract: Over the past decade, four-dimensional Chern–Simons theory has emerged as a powerful organising principle for two-dimensional integrability. In this talk, I will directly recover the Lax formulations and variational principles of two archetypal integrable […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani, CMSA Title: How complex is S^6? Abstract: A longstanding problem posed by Hopf in 1948 asks which even-dimensional spheres can be equipped with complex structures. Classical results show that only S^2 and S^6 can admit a complex structure. Since S^2 has its own standard complex structure, the question was […]
Speaker: Christopher Harshaw, Columbia University Title: Design-Based Minimax Theory for Network Experiments Abstract: Network experiments are used throughout the social and medical sciences to investigate causal effects under the presence of interference. While a large body of work has developed improved statistical procedures, the fundamental limits of statistical estimation in these settings is less well understood. […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Aaron Landesman (Harvard CMSA) Title: The work of Jacob Tsimerman (ICM series) Abstract: I will discuss some basics of the Fields Medal work of Jacob Tsimerman. Some of his key contributions come toward the André-Oort conjecture, algebraicity of period maps, and arithmetic statistics.
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AI for the Working Mathematician Speaker: Ken Ono, Axiom Math and University of Virginia Title: Mathematics in the Age of AI: Discovery, Verification and the Future of Proof Abstract: How is artificial intelligence changing mathematics? Drawing on my mathematical journey and recent work at Axiom Math, I will discuss the discovery of new theorems and the […]