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CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
When: February 2, 20263:00 pm - 4:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G102Speaker: Pierre Vanhove (Institute of Theoretical Physics - Saclay)
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HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
When: February 2, 20263:00 pm - 4:00 pmWhere: MIT Room 2-143Speaker: Cosmin Pohoata (Emory University)
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CMSA COLLOQUIUM
When: February 2, 20264:30 pm - 5:30 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: Olivier Bernardi (Brandeis University)
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HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
When: February 3, 20263:00 pm - 4:00 pmWhere: MIT, Room 2-132Speaker: Denis Nesterov (ETH Zurich)
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CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
When: February 3, 20264:15 pm - 6:30 pmWhere: Science Center 507Speaker: Bowen Yang (Harvard CMSA) | Dan Freed (Harvard CMSA)
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CMSA Q&A Seminar
When: February 4, 202612:00 pm - 1:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common RoomSpeaker: Ludmil Katzarkov (University of Miami)
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CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
When: February 4, 20262:00 pm - 3:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: George Tsoukalas (UT Austin and Google DeepMind)
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HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
When: February 4, 20263:45 pm - 4:45 pmWhere: Science Center Hall DSpeaker: Pavlo Pylyavskyy (U Minnesota)
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CMSA EVENTS
When: February 4, 20265:00 pm - 6:00 pmWhere: Science Center Hall DSpeaker: Barry Mazur (Harvard University)
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CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
When: February 5, 20262:45 pm - 3:45 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: Yi-Nan Wang (Peking University)
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
When: February 5, 20264:00 pm - 6:00 pmWhere: Science Center 232Speaker: Chenxin Huang (Harvard)
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OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
When: February 7, 2026Where: Science Center B10Speaker: Claudine Margolis - Amplify Education | Suzanne von Oy - Amplify Education
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CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
When: February 10, 20264:15 pm - 6:30 pmWhere: Science Center 507Speaker: Sanjay Raman (Harvard)
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CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
When: February 11, 20262:00 pm - 3:00 pmWhere: VirtuallySpeaker: Yiannis Vlassopoulos (Athena Research Center)
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
When: February 12, 20264:00 pm - 6:00 pmWhere: Science Center 232Speaker: Yohsuke Matsuzawa (Osaka Metropolitan University)
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CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
When: February 17, 20264:15 pm - 6:30 pmWhere: Science Center 507Speaker: Max Hübner | Saman Habibi Esfahani
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CMSA EVENTS
When: February 23, 2026 - March 14, 20268:00 am - 5:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
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CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
When: February 24, 20264:15 pm - 6:30 pmWhere: Science Center 507
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
When: February 25, 20264:00 pm - 6:00 pmWhere: Science Center 530Speaker: Curtis McMullen (Harvard)
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CMSA EVENTS
When: March 11, 20265:00 pm - 6:00 pmWhere: Science Center Hall DSpeaker: Javier Gómez-Serrano (Brown University)
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
When: March 12, 20264:00 pm - 6:00 pmWhere: Science Center 232Speaker: Sarah Koch (University of Michigan)
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
When: March 25, 20264:00 pm - 6:00 pmWhere: Science Center 530Speaker: John Hamal Hubbard (Cornell University)
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
When: April 2, 20264:00 pm - 6:00 pmWhere: Science Center 232Speaker: Sina Saleh (Harvard University)
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CMSA EVENTS
When: April 9, 2026 - April 10, 20268:00 am - 5:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
When: April 9, 20264:00 pm - 6:00 pmWhere: Science Center 232Speaker: Richard Birkett (Brown University)
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CMSA EVENTS
When: April 15, 20265:00 pm - 6:00 pmWhere: Science Center Hall DSpeaker: Peter Sarnak (Institute for Advanced Study)
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CMSA EVENTS
When: April 23, 20264:00 pm - 5:00 pmWhere: Science Center Hall ASpeaker: Regina Barzilay (MIT)
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CMSA EVENTS
When: April 27, 2026 - May 15, 20268:00 am - 5:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
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When: May 18, 2026 - May 22, 20268:00 am - 5:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
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HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRYHARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
From GIT to Baily-Borel: Moduli of hypersurfaces via minimal exponentsWhen: January 27, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Sung Gi Park (Princeton University)
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory SeminarCMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
The Quasi-Adiabatic Theorem and All ThatWhen: January 27, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Daniel Spiegel (Harvard)
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3 events,
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Webs, pockets, and buildingsWhen: January 28, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Joshua Swanson (USC)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: the HOMFLY polynomial of a forest…..When: January 28, 2026
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: Science Center Hall E
Speaker: Amanda Schwartz (Michigan)
MATH TABLEMATH TABLE
Segments and Convexity in Metric SpacesWhen: January 28, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Tian Vlasic - Harvard University
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2 events,
CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics SeminarCMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
Complete Calabi-Yau Metrics and Optimal TransportWhen: January 29, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Tristan Collins (UToronto)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICSALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
O-minimality and an application to a variant of the DML conjectureWhen: January 29, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Adam Melrod (Harvard)
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2 events,
CMSA MEMBER SEMINARCMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
Some results about saturationWhen: January 30, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Stephen Landsittel (Harvard CMSA)
CMSA FREEDMAN SEMINARCMSA FREEDMAN SEMINAR
Formulating 4D surgery for AI agentsWhen: January 30, 2026
2:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Slava Krushkal (University of Virginia)
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3 events,
CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINARCMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Reflexive Polytopes and the Convergence of Feynman IntegralsWhen: February 2, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G102
Speaker: Pierre Vanhove (Institute of Theoretical Physics - Saclay)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Induced matchings in point-line incidence graphsWhen: February 2, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Cosmin Pohoata (Emory University)
CMSA COLLOQUIUMCMSA COLLOQUIUM
Bijections for hyperplane arrangements of Coxeter typeWhen: February 2, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Olivier Bernardi (Brandeis University)
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2 events,
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRYHARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Hilbert schemes of points and Fulton-MacPherson compactificationsWhen: February 3, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT, Room 2-132
Speaker: Denis Nesterov (ETH Zurich)
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory SeminarCMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
More on Kubota’s spectrum of invertible statesWhen: February 3, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Bowen Yang (Harvard CMSA) | Dan Freed (Harvard CMSA)
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4 events,
CMSA Q&A SeminarCMSA Q&A Seminar
How can modern derived algebraic geometry be used to solve classical problems?When: February 4, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Ludmil Katzarkov (University of Miami)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICSCMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
Automated Theory Formation and Interestingness in MathematicsWhen: February 4, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: George Tsoukalas (UT Austin and Google DeepMind)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Plabic graphs and dynamical incidence geometryWhen: February 4, 2026
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Where: Science Center Hall D
Speaker: Pavlo Pylyavskyy (U Minnesota)
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2 events,
CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics SeminarCMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
On E7+1/2 gauge theoryWhen: February 5, 2026
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Yi-Nan Wang (Peking University)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICSALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
From Manin–Mumford to Unlikely Intersections: The Relative Case and BeyondWhen: February 5, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Chenxin Huang (Harvard)
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0 events,
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1 event,
OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Introduction to Amplify Classroom: Learn to Build the Activity of your DreamsWhen: February 7, 2026
12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Where: Science Center B10
Speaker: Claudine Margolis - Amplify Education | Suzanne von Oy - Amplify Education
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1 event,
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory SeminarCMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
Solitonic Symmetry: Cohomology with TFT CoefficientsWhen: February 10, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Sanjay Raman (Harvard)
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1 event,
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICSCMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
ReLU and Softplus neural nets as zero-sum, turn-based, stopping gamesWhen: February 11, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Yiannis Vlassopoulos (Athena Research Center)
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1 event,
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICSALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Some properties of cohomologically hyperbolic mapsWhen: February 12, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Yohsuke Matsuzawa (Osaka Metropolitan University)
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1 event,
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory SeminarCMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: Max Hübner and Saman Habibi EsfahaniWhen: February 17, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Max Hübner | Saman Habibi Esfahani
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CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and MathematicsWhen: February 23, 2026 - March 14, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
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2 events,
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory SeminarCMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: Max Hübner and Saman Habibi EsfahaniWhen: February 24, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
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2 events,
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICSALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Algebraic Dynamics Seminar: Curtis McMullen (Harvard)When: February 25, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Curtis McMullen (Harvard)
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HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
From GIT to Baily-Borel: Moduli of hypersurfaces via minimal exponents
When: January 27, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Sung Gi Park (Princeton University)
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
The Quasi-Adiabatic Theorem and All That
When: January 27, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Daniel Spiegel (Harvard)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Webs, pockets, and buildings
When: January 28, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Joshua Swanson (USC)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: the HOMFLY polynomial of a forest…..
When: January 28, 2026
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: Science Center Hall E
Speaker: Amanda Schwartz (Michigan)
MATH TABLE
Segments and Convexity in Metric Spaces
When: January 28, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Tian Vlasic - Harvard University
CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
Complete Calabi-Yau Metrics and Optimal Transport
When: January 29, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Tristan Collins (UToronto)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
O-minimality and an application to a variant of the DML conjecture
When: January 29, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Adam Melrod (Harvard)
CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
Some results about saturation
When: January 30, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Stephen Landsittel (Harvard CMSA)
CMSA FREEDMAN SEMINAR
Formulating 4D surgery for AI agents
When: January 30, 2026
2:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Slava Krushkal (University of Virginia)
CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Reflexive Polytopes and the Convergence of Feynman Integrals
When: February 2, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G102
Speaker: Pierre Vanhove (Institute of Theoretical Physics - Saclay)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Induced matchings in point-line incidence graphs
When: February 2, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Cosmin Pohoata (Emory University)
CMSA COLLOQUIUM
Bijections for hyperplane arrangements of Coxeter type
When: February 2, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Olivier Bernardi (Brandeis University)
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Hilbert schemes of points and Fulton-MacPherson compactifications
When: February 3, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT, Room 2-132
Speaker: Denis Nesterov (ETH Zurich)
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
More on Kubota’s spectrum of invertible states
When: February 3, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Bowen Yang (Harvard CMSA) | Dan Freed (Harvard CMSA)
CMSA Q&A Seminar
How can modern derived algebraic geometry be used to solve classical problems?
When: February 4, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Ludmil Katzarkov (University of Miami)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
Automated Theory Formation and Interestingness in Mathematics
When: February 4, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: George Tsoukalas (UT Austin and Google DeepMind)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Plabic graphs and dynamical incidence geometry
When: February 4, 2026
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Where: Science Center Hall D
Speaker: Pavlo Pylyavskyy (U Minnesota)
CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
On E7+1/2 gauge theory
When: February 5, 2026
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Yi-Nan Wang (Peking University)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
From Manin–Mumford to Unlikely Intersections: The Relative Case and Beyond
When: February 5, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Chenxin Huang (Harvard)
OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Introduction to Amplify Classroom: Learn to Build the Activity of your Dreams
When: February 7, 2026
12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Where: Science Center B10
Speaker: Claudine Margolis - Amplify Education | Suzanne von Oy - Amplify Education
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
Solitonic Symmetry: Cohomology with TFT Coefficients
When: February 10, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Sanjay Raman (Harvard)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
ReLU and Softplus neural nets as zero-sum, turn-based, stopping games
When: February 11, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Yiannis Vlassopoulos (Athena Research Center)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Some properties of cohomologically hyperbolic maps
When: February 12, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Yohsuke Matsuzawa (Osaka Metropolitan University)
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: Max Hübner and Saman Habibi Esfahani
When: February 17, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Max Hübner | Saman Habibi Esfahani
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics
When: February 23, 2026 - March 14, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics
When: February 23, 2026 - March 14, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: Max Hübner and Saman Habibi Esfahani
When: February 24, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics
When: February 23, 2026 - March 14, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Algebraic Dynamics Seminar: Curtis McMullen (Harvard)
When: February 25, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Curtis McMullen (Harvard)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics
When: February 23, 2026 - March 14, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics
When: February 23, 2026 - March 14, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics
When: February 23, 2026 - March 14, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics
When: February 23, 2026 - March 14, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10