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 […]
Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Kason Kunkelmann, Harvard Title: A Rigorous Construction of the Free Quantum Field Abstract: In this talk we will build on last week’s discrete intuition and rigorously construct our first continuum quantum field theory: the free field. Following Chapter three of Chatterjee’s notes, we will realize it as a Gaussian […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: tba
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 […]
AI for the Working Mathematician Speaker: Tristan Buckmaster, NYU Title: A 'Deep Blue-Kasparov moment for mathematics' Abstract: In this talk I will describe recent work with Levent Alpöge proving the blow-up for smooth solutions to the incompressible Euler equations and the broader implications that such results have of the study of mathematics.
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 […]
Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar Speaker: Elliott Gesteau (MIT & CMSA)
Member Seminar Speaker: Houcine Ben Dali
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 […]
Colloquium Speaker: Ivan Corwin (Columbia University) Title: Extreme Diffusion Abstract: Two hundred years ago, Robert Brown observed the statistics of the motion of grains of pollen in water. It took almost one hundred years for Einstein and others to develop an effective theory describing this motion as that of a random walker. In this talk, I will […]
Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Tobias Schmidt