Lagrangian Floer theory and Applications Program Dates: September 15–November 21, 2026 Location: CMSA G10, 20 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138 This thematic program will focus on recent developments in Lagrangian Floer theory and applications. These include the development of family Floer theory, degeneration techniques, Floer homotopy theory in the Lagrangian case, Floer theory in prime […]
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 […]
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Xinjie He, UCLA Title: The IEANTN Project: Automation and Mathematical Understanding Abstract: Explicit analytic number theory combines conceptual arguments with extensive bookkeeping and numerical computation, often drawing on long chains of results across many papers. The Integrated Explicit Analytic Number Theory Network (IEANTN) aims to organize this literature into […]
CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am ET Location: online via Zoom Webinar Please register to attend. Zoom Webinar registration Speaker: Peng Shan, Tsinghua University Title: Bridging affine vertex algebras and affine Springer fibres Abstract: In this talk, I would like to explain a program which […]
Doing Mathematics with AI Agents Date: Saturday, October 31, 2026 Time: 9:00–5:00 pm ET Location: Zimmer Hall (Science Center), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA This is a one day workshop for Boston-area mathematics faculty to work with AI agents in a collaborative environment (designed by Andrew Sutherland) supported by computational infrastructure and formalization tools. This […]
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: 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 […]
Speaker: Christopher Harshaw (c.harshaw@columbia.edu), 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. […]
Doing Mathematics with AI Agents Date: Saturday, November 21, 2026 Time: 9:00–5:00 pm ET Location: Zimmer Hall (Science Center), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA Application coming soon. Organizers: Melanie Matchett Wood (Harvard) and Andrew Sutherland (MIT) This event is cosponsored by the Harvard Mathematics Department and the CMSA. No financial support is available […]