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Laura DeMarco Appointed Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy
We are delighted to announce that Professor Laura DeMarco was appointed the Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy. The Hollis Professorship is the second...
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When you do the math, humans still rule
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Introductory Statistics through Resampling: Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis in the Sciences
July 31, 2026 - August 1, 2026Speaker: Alan Garfinkel - UCLA | Eric J. Deeds - UCLA
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Current Developments in Mathematics 2026
November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026Speaker: TBA
Register to Attend Organizers: Dennis Auroux (Harvard), David Jerison (MIT), Mark Kisin (Harvard), Nike Sun (MIT), Lauren Williams (Harvard), Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard). Sponsored by the...
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Number Theory and Representation Theory: The Legacy of Benedict Gross, and Beyond
March 15, 2027 - March 19, 2027Speaker: Click more info for full list of speakers
Dick Gross (June 22, 1950 – December 19, 2025) made groundbreaking contributions in domains such as number theory and representation theory, and spent nearly five...
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HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
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GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
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NUMBER THEORY
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
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INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
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HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
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THURSDAY SEMINAR
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CMSA Algebra Seminar
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GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
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GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
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CMSA Algebra Seminar
When: April 9, 20264:00 pm - 5:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: Dale Cutkosky (University of Missouri)
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CMSA EVENTS
When: April 15, 2026 - April 16, 20268:00 am - 5:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
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CMSA EVENTS
When: April 15, 20265:00 pm - 6:00 pmWhere: Science Center Hall CSpeaker: Peter Sarnak (Institute for Advanced Study)
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CMSA Algebra Seminar
When: April 16, 20264:00 pm - 5:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: Dipendranath Mahato (Tulane University)
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CMSA EVENTS
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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
CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINARCMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Abelian duality via derived geometryWhen: February 23, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G102
Speaker: Owen Gwilliam (UMass Amherst)
CMSA COLLOQUIUMCMSA COLLOQUIUM
Facets of link homologyWhen: February 23, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Mikhail Khovanov (John Hopkins)
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3 events,
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRYHARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Isoresidual fibrations and the moduli space of pointed rational curvesWhen: February 24, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Scott Mullane (University of Melbourne)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Bi-HKT Manifolds, Sigma Models, Large N=4 and their String ConstructionsWhen: February 24, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Max Hübner (Harvard CMSA)
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5 events,
NUMBER THEORYNUMBER THEORY
Second moments for 2-Selmer structures on elliptic curves, and applicationsWhen: February 25, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Ashvin Swaminathan (Harvard)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS, INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACESALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS, INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Teichmüller theory via simple closed curvesWhen: February 25, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Curt McMullen (Harvard University)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Braid Group Presentations and Triangulations of the PermutahedronWhen: February 25, 2026
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: Science Center Hall E
Speaker: Colin Defant (Harvard)
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3 events,
CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics SeminarCMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
Higher Symmetries, Eta Invariants and Anomaly TheoriesWhen: February 26, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Mirjam Cvetic (UPenn)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICSCMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
Scaling Stochastic Momentum from Theory to LLMsWhen: February 26, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Courtney Paquette (McGill University)
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3 events,
CMSA MEMBER SEMINARCMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
Gauge theory, from low dimensions to higher dimensions and backWhen: February 27, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani (Harvard CMSA)
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGYGAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
Surgeries on knots and tight contact structuresWhen: February 27, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Shunyu Wan (Georgia Tech)
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HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Improved lower bound on hypercube edge slicingWhen: March 2, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Zixuan Xu (MIT)
CMSA COLLOQUIUMCMSA COLLOQUIUM
Inverse problems in soft and active matterWhen: March 2, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: L Mahadevan (Harvard University: SEAS, Physics and OEB)
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4 events,
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRYHARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Tropicalizations of locally symmetric varietiesWhen: March 3, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Raluca Vlad (Brown University)
MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGEMATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
A fault-tolerant neutral-atom architecture for universal quantum computationWhen: March 3, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Jefferson 256
Speaker: Sasha Geim (Harvard University)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Solitonic Symmetry: Cohomology with TFT CoefficientsWhen: March 3, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Sanjay Raman (Harvard)
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3 events,
NUMBER THEORYNUMBER THEORY
Covers of curves, Ceresa cycles, and unlikely intersectionsWhen: March 4, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Padmavathi Srinivasan (Boston University)
CMSA EVENTSCMSA EVENTS
2026 Ding Shum Lecture: Sanjeev Arora, PrincetonWhen: March 4, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Science Center Hall A
Speaker: Sanjeev Arora (Princeton)
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3 events,
CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics SeminarCMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
Fukaya categories and higher representation theoryWhen: March 5, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Where: Science Center 300H
Speaker: Vivek Shende (Syddansk Universitet & UC Berkeley)
OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTSOTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Introductory Math Seminar: Designing Math Lessons that Captivate StudentsWhen: March 5, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Leslie Dietiker (Boston University)
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3 events,
CMSA FREEDMAN SEMINARCMSA FREEDMAN SEMINAR
Quantum Cellular Automata via Algebraic K-Theory / Fermionic QCA in 2d are trivialWhen: March 6, 2026
3:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Mattie Ji (Penn) | Jeongwan Haah (Stanford)
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGYGAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
Topology of Lagrangian submanifolds via open-closed string topologyWhen: March 6, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Shuhao Li (Stony Brook)
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HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Turán Problems For Tight CyclesWhen: March 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Maya Sankar (IAS)
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4 events,
CMSA EVENTSCMSA EVENTS
CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Martin Bridson: Profinite rigidity: Chasing finite shadows of infinite groupsWhen: March 10, 2026
8:45 am - 10:15 am
Where: Science Center Hall A
Speaker: Martin Bridson (FRS Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute)
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRYHARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Number of generators: an algebraic-geometry approachWhen: March 10, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Uriya First (University of Haifa and MIT)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
TQFTs do not detect the Milnor sphereWhen: March 10, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Lorenzo Riva (CMSA)
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5 events,
NUMBER THEORYNUMBER THEORY
Comparison of the analytic and algebraic categorical local Langlands correspondencesWhen: March 11, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Linus Hamann (Harvard University)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Quantum bumpless pipe dreamsWhen: March 11, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-146
Speaker: Tuong Le (Princeton University)
MATH TABLEMATH TABLE
The Eckmann-Hilton ArgumentWhen: March 11, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Speaker: Vincent Costa - Harvard University
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3 events,
CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics SeminarCMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
Strongly adapted contact geometry of Anosov 3-flowsWhen: March 12, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Surena Hozoori (Brandeis)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICSALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Simple Closed Curves and Complex DynamicsWhen: March 12, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Sarah Koch (University of Michigan)
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2 events,
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGYGAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
A homotopy moduli space of G2 structures with infinite fundamental groupWhen: March 13, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Ollie Thakar (Harvard)
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HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Generalized Tur\’an Problems for Trees and MoreWhen: March 16, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Sam Spiro (Georgia State)
CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINARCMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Finite N indices from branes and negative branesWhen: March 16, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G102
Speaker: Kasia Budzik (Harvard University)
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2 events,
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICSCMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
Dynamic reasoningWhen: March 18, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Emmanuel Abbé (EPFL, Institute of Mathematics and School of Computer and Communication Sciences)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
A positive combinatorial formula for the double Edelman-Greene coefficientsWhen: March 18, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT, Room 2-132
Speaker: Jack Chou (University of Florida)
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1 event,
CMSA Algebra SeminarCMSA Algebra Seminar
Moduli of subcanonical pointsWhen: March 19, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Dawei Chen (Boston College)
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1 event,
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Tales of the descent algebraWhen: March 20, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT 2-142
Speaker: Darij Grinberg (Drexel University)
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3 events,
TRIVIAL NOTIONSTRIVIAL NOTIONS
e^(x^2) has no Elementary AntiderivativeWhen: March 24, 2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Where: Science Center 110
Speaker: Frank Lu (Harvard)
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRYHARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
A modest extension of Reider’s Theorem on ample divisors on a surfaceWhen: March 24, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Aaron Bertram (University of Utah)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Line operators in holomorphic QFTWhen: March 24, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Keyou Zeng (CMSA)
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4 events,
NUMBER THEORYNUMBER THEORY
Galois action on higher etale homotopy groupsWhen: March 25, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Alexander Petrov (MIT)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICSALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Algebraic Dynamics Seminar: John Hamal Hubbard (Cornell University)When: March 25, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: John Hamal Hubbard (Cornell University)
INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACESINFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Matings and 3-manifolds that fiber over the circle: One entry in the Sullivan dictionaryWhen: March 25, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: John Hubbard (Cornell University)
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2 events,
THURSDAY SEMINARTHURSDAY SEMINAR
K(n)-local semiadditivityWhen: March 26, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Howard Beck (Northwestern)
CMSA Algebra SeminarCMSA Algebra Seminar
The Beilinson-Bloch conjecture for some non-isotrivial varieties over global function fieldsWhen: March 26, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Matt Broe (Boston University)
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1 event,
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGYGAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
Deligne–Mumford field theories from categoriesWhen: March 27, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Yash Deshmukh (IAS)
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GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: Vasily Krylov (Harvard)When: March 31, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Vasily Krylov (Harvard)
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ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICSALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Algebraic Dynamics Seminar: Sina Saleh (Harvard University)When: April 2, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Sina Saleh (Harvard University)
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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 QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Abelian duality via derived geometry
When: February 23, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G102
Speaker: Owen Gwilliam (UMass Amherst)
CMSA COLLOQUIUM
Facets of link homology
When: February 23, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Mikhail Khovanov (John Hopkins)
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
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Isoresidual fibrations and the moduli space of pointed rational curves
When: February 24, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Scott Mullane (University of Melbourne)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Bi-HKT Manifolds, Sigma Models, Large N=4 and their String Constructions
When: February 24, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Max Hübner (Harvard CMSA)
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
NUMBER THEORY
Second moments for 2-Selmer structures on elliptic curves, and applications
When: February 25, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Ashvin Swaminathan (Harvard)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS, INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Teichmüller theory via simple closed curves
When: February 25, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Curt McMullen (Harvard University)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Braid Group Presentations and Triangulations of the Permutahedron
When: February 25, 2026
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: Science Center Hall E
Speaker: Colin Defant (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 Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
Higher Symmetries, Eta Invariants and Anomaly Theories
When: February 26, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Mirjam Cvetic (UPenn)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
Scaling Stochastic Momentum from Theory to LLMs
When: February 26, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Courtney Paquette (McGill University)
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 MEMBER SEMINAR
Gauge theory, from low dimensions to higher dimensions and back
When: February 27, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani (Harvard CMSA)
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures
When: February 27, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Shunyu Wan (Georgia Tech)
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
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Improved lower bound on hypercube edge slicing
When: March 2, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Zixuan Xu (MIT)
CMSA COLLOQUIUM
Inverse problems in soft and active matter
When: March 2, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: L Mahadevan (Harvard University: SEAS, Physics and OEB)
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
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Tropicalizations of locally symmetric varieties
When: March 3, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Raluca Vlad (Brown University)
MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
A fault-tolerant neutral-atom architecture for universal quantum computation
When: March 3, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Jefferson 256
Speaker: Sasha Geim (Harvard University)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Solitonic Symmetry: Cohomology with TFT Coefficients
When: March 3, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Sanjay Raman (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
NUMBER THEORY
Covers of curves, Ceresa cycles, and unlikely intersections
When: March 4, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Padmavathi Srinivasan (Boston University)
CMSA EVENTS
2026 Ding Shum Lecture: Sanjeev Arora, Princeton
When: March 4, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Science Center Hall A
Speaker: Sanjeev Arora (Princeton)
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 Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
Fukaya categories and higher representation theory
When: March 5, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Where: Science Center 300H
Speaker: Vivek Shende (Syddansk Universitet & UC Berkeley)
OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Introductory Math Seminar: Designing Math Lessons that Captivate Students
When: March 5, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Leslie Dietiker (Boston University)
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 FREEDMAN SEMINAR
Quantum Cellular Automata via Algebraic K-Theory / Fermionic QCA in 2d are trivial
When: March 6, 2026
3:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Mattie Ji (Penn) | Jeongwan Haah (Stanford)
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
Topology of Lagrangian submanifolds via open-closed string topology
When: March 6, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Shuhao Li (Stony Brook)
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
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Turán Problems For Tight Cycles
When: March 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Maya Sankar (IAS)
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/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Martin Bridson: Profinite rigidity: Chasing finite shadows of infinite groups
When: March 10, 2026
8:45 am - 10:15 am
Where: Science Center Hall A
Speaker: Martin Bridson (FRS Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute)
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Number of generators: an algebraic-geometry approach
When: March 10, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Uriya First (University of Haifa and MIT)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
TQFTs do not detect the Milnor sphere
When: March 10, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Lorenzo Riva (CMSA)
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
NUMBER THEORY
Comparison of the analytic and algebraic categorical local Langlands correspondences
When: March 11, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Linus Hamann (Harvard University)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Quantum bumpless pipe dreams
When: March 11, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-146
Speaker: Tuong Le (Princeton University)
MATH TABLE
The Eckmann-Hilton Argument
When: March 11, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Speaker: Vincent Costa - Harvard University
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 Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
Strongly adapted contact geometry of Anosov 3-flows
When: March 12, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Surena Hozoori (Brandeis)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Simple Closed Curves and Complex Dynamics
When: March 12, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Sarah Koch (University of Michigan)
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
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
A homotopy moduli space of G2 structures with infinite fundamental group
When: March 13, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Ollie Thakar (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
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Generalized Tur\’an Problems for Trees and More
When: March 16, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Sam Spiro (Georgia State)
CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Finite N indices from branes and negative branes
When: March 16, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G102
Speaker: Kasia Budzik (Harvard University)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
Dynamic reasoning
When: March 18, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Emmanuel Abbé (EPFL, Institute of Mathematics and School of Computer and Communication Sciences)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
A positive combinatorial formula for the double Edelman-Greene coefficients
When: March 18, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT, Room 2-132
Speaker: Jack Chou (University of Florida)
CMSA Algebra Seminar
Moduli of subcanonical points
When: March 19, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Dawei Chen (Boston College)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Tales of the descent algebra
When: March 20, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT 2-142
Speaker: Darij Grinberg (Drexel University)
TRIVIAL NOTIONS
e^(x^2) has no Elementary Antiderivative
When: March 24, 2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Where: Science Center 110
Speaker: Frank Lu (Harvard)
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
A modest extension of Reider’s Theorem on ample divisors on a surface
When: March 24, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Aaron Bertram (University of Utah)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Line operators in holomorphic QFT
When: March 24, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Keyou Zeng (CMSA)
NUMBER THEORY
Galois action on higher etale homotopy groups
When: March 25, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Alexander Petrov (MIT)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Algebraic Dynamics Seminar: John Hamal Hubbard (Cornell University)
When: March 25, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: John Hamal Hubbard (Cornell University)
INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Matings and 3-manifolds that fiber over the circle: One entry in the Sullivan dictionary
When: March 25, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: John Hubbard (Cornell University)
THURSDAY SEMINAR
K(n)-local semiadditivity
When: March 26, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Howard Beck (Northwestern)
CMSA Algebra Seminar
The Beilinson-Bloch conjecture for some non-isotrivial varieties over global function fields
When: March 26, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Matt Broe (Boston University)
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
Deligne–Mumford field theories from categories
When: March 27, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Yash Deshmukh (IAS)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: Vasily Krylov (Harvard)
When: March 31, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Vasily Krylov (Harvard)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Algebraic Dynamics Seminar: Sina Saleh (Harvard University)
When: April 2, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Sina Saleh (Harvard University)