CMSA Q&A Seminar Title: Discussion on OpenAI Math Papers Abstract: You have likely seen that OpenAI released 722 math papers. For the Q&A meeting on Wednesday October 14, we would like to gather to discuss them and hear informal, short presentations (say 10 minutes maximum) from anyone who is engaging with at least one of the […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Shaoyun Bai, MIT Title: What is a virtual fundamental cycle? (ICM Series: On the work of John Pardon) Abstract: One of Pardon’s important contribution to symplectic topology is a new approach to constructing virtual fundamental cycles/chains for moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic maps. As a former PhD student of John, my own […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Denis Auroux, Harvard Title: What is Lagrangian Floer homology?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Hugh Woodin, Harvard Title: Truth, proof, and AI
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Lauren Williams, Harvard Topic: The First Proof Project
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed, Harvard Topic: How does one navigate the job market as a postdoc in 2026?
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: James Eldred Pascoe, Drexel University Title: (What is) The tracial fundamental group and free universal monodromy? Abstract: We introduce the tracial fundamental group to classify the analytic continuation of functions that are locally behave like the trace of natural matrix valued functions. While globally defined natural matrix-valued functions (known as free […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Miami Title: New Birational Invariants Abstract: We will introduce the origins of the main ideas of the theory of atoms. Applications follow. Equivariant and mixed atoms will be considered.
Member Seminar Speaker: Stephen Landsittel Title: Some results about saturation Abstract: Given a local ring R we can ask when saturation of ideals in R commutes with other operations on ideals (such as extension to a ring containing R). We show that the condition that extension of ideals along a ring map R \to S […]
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Dan Freed, CMSA Topic: Constructions of homotopy types in geometry and physics
Member Seminar Speaker: Houcine Ben Dali, Harvard CMSA Title: A combinatorial formula for interpolation Macdonald polynomials Abstract: In 1996, Knop and Sahi introduced a remarkable family of inhomogeneous symmetric polynomials, defined via vanishing conditions, whose top homogeneous parts are exactly the Macdonald polynomials. Like the Macdonald polynomials, these interpolation Macdonald polynomials are closely connected to […]
Member Seminar Speaker: Francesco Mori, CMSA Title: Optimal learning protocols via statistical physics and control theory Abstract: Behind the impressive performance of modern machine learning lies a toolkit of training tricks, from tuning learning rates to curating training data. These heuristics are powerful but hard to interpret and possibly suboptimal, leaving open the challenge of finding general […]