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Introductory Statistics through Resampling: Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis in the Sciences

July 31, 2026 - August 1, 2026

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Current Developments in Mathematics 2026

November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026

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Number Theory and Representation Theory: The Legacy of Benedict Gross, and Beyond

March 15, 2027 - March 19, 2027

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CMSA FREEDMAN SEMINAR

Exotic R^4’s are unclassifiable

When: March 27, 2026

3:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

Speaker: Robert Gompf (UT Austin)

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)

HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS

Log-concavity, Sampling, and Lorentzian Polynomials

When: March 30, 2026

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: MIT Room 2-143

Speaker: Jonathan Leake (University of Waterloo)

CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR

K-theoretic stable envelopes, quantum loop groups and wall-crossings

When: March 30, 2026

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G102

Speaker: Tianqing Zhu (Columbia University)

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)

HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS

Complementary vectors of doubly Cohen-Macaulay complexes

When: April 1, 2026

4:15 pm - 5:15 pm

Where: MIT, Room 2-132

Speaker: Matt Larson (Princeton)

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MATH TABLE

Large Cardinals, Left-Distributivity, and Laver Tables

When: April 1, 2026

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Speaker: Preston Bushnell - Harvard University

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)

HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY

Perturbation of mixed characteristics test ideals

When: April 7, 2026

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Speaker: Hanlin Cai (Columbia University)

ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS

Algebraic Dynamics Seminar: Richard Birkett (Brown University)

When: April 9, 2026

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Where: Science Center 232

Speaker: Richard Birkett (Brown University)

CMSA Algebra Seminar

Multiplicities of graded families of ideals on Noetherian local rings

When: April 9, 2026

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

Speaker: Dale Cutkosky (University of Missouri)

CMSA EVENTS

CMSA Swampland and our Universe

When: April 15, 2026 - April 16, 2026

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

CMSA EVENTS

Millennium Prize Problems Lecture – Peter Sarnak: Riemann Hypothesis

When: April 15, 2026

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Where: Science Center Hall C

Speaker: Peter Sarnak (Institute for Advanced Study)

CMSA Algebra Seminar

Interpolation for points in $\mathbb{P}^N, N\geq 2$

When: April 16, 2026

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

Speaker: Dipendranath Mahato (Tulane University)

CMSA EVENTS

CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Nicolai Reshetikhin, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University

When: April 22, 2026

9:00 am - 10:30 am

Where: Science Center Hall A

Speaker: Nicolai Reshetikhin (Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University)

CMSA EVENTS

Sixth Annual Yip Lecture | Regina Barzilay

When: April 23, 2026

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Where: Science Center Hall A

Speaker: Regina Barzilay (MIT)

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CMSA Mathematics and Biology II: Mathematics and Science of Behavior

When: April 27, 2026 - May 1, 2026

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

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CMSA Workshop on Calabi-Yau metrics and optimal transportation

When: May 18, 2026 - May 22, 2026

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

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Introductory Statistics through Resampling: Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis in the Sciences

When: July 31, 2026 - August 1, 2026

Where: Science Center 530

Speaker: Alan Garfinkel - UCLA | Eric J. Deeds - UCLA

ANNOUNCEMENTS, CONFERENCES

Current Developments in Mathematics 2026

When: November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026

Where: Harvard Science Center

Speaker: TBA

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Number Theory and Representation Theory: The Legacy of Benedict Gross, and Beyond

When: March 15, 2027 - March 19, 2027

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3 events 2 3 events, 2 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics CMSA EVENTS HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS 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 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)	4 events 3 4 events, 3 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY 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 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 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)	3 events 4 3 events, 4 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics NUMBER THEORY 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 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)	3 events 5 3 events, 5 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar 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 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)	3 events 6 3 events, 6 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics CMSA FREEDMAN SEMINAR 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 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)	1 event 7 1 event, 7 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics	1 event 8 1 event, 8 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics
2 events 9 2 events, 9 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics CMSA EVENTS HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS 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)	4 events 10 4 events, 10 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics CMSA EVENTS 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 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 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)	5 events 11 5 events, 11 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics NUMBER THEORY 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 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 MATH TABLE The Eckmann-Hilton Argument When: March 11, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Speaker: Vincent Costa - Harvard University + 1 More	3 events 12 3 events, 12 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar 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 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)	2 events 13 2 events, 13 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY 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)	1 event 14 1 event, 14 2026-02-23 CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics	0 events 15 0 events, 15
2 events 16 2 events, 16 HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS 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 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)	0 events 17 0 events, 17	2 events 18 2 events, 18 CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS 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 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)	1 event 19 1 event, 19 CMSA Algebra Seminar 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)	1 event 20 1 event, 20 HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS 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)	0 events 21 0 events, 21	0 events 22 0 events, 22
0 events 23 0 events, 23	3 events 24 3 events, 24 TRIVIAL NOTIONS 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 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 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)	4 events 25 4 events, 25 NUMBER THEORY 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 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 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) + 1 More	3 events 26 3 events, 26 CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar Gauge theory on HyperKahler manifolds When: March 26, 2026 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: Emily Autumn Windes (New Uzbekistan University), THURSDAY SEMINAR 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 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)	2 events 27 2 events, 27 CMSA FREEDMAN SEMINAR CMSA FREEDMAN SEMINAR Exotic R^4’s are unclassifiable When: March 27, 2026 3:00 pm - 5:15 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: Robert Gompf (UT Austin), GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY 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)	0 events 28 0 events, 28	0 events 29 0 events, 29
2 events 30 2 events, 30 HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS Log-concavity, Sampling, and Lorentzian Polynomials When: March 30, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: MIT Room 2-143 Speaker: Jonathan Leake (University of Waterloo), CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR K-theoretic stable envelopes, quantum loop groups and wall-crossings When: March 30, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G102 Speaker: Tianqing Zhu (Columbia University)	1 event 31 1 event, 31 GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY 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)

February 23

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)

February 23

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)

February 23

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)

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February 23

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)

February 23

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)

February 23

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

February 23

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

February 23

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)

February 23

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)

February 23

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)

February 23

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)

February 23

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)

February 23

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

February 23

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

February 23

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)

February 23

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)

February 23

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

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February 23

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)

February 23

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)

February 23

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

There are no events on this day.

March 16

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)

There are no events on this day.

March 18

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)

March 19

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)

March 20

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)

There are no events on this day.

March 24

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)

March 25

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)

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March 26

CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar

Gauge theory on HyperKahler manifolds

When: March 26, 2026

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

Speaker: Emily Autumn Windes (New Uzbekistan 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)

March 27

CMSA FREEDMAN SEMINAR

Exotic R^4’s are unclassifiable

When: March 27, 2026

3:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

Speaker: Robert Gompf (UT Austin)

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)

There are no events on this day.

March 30

HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS

Log-concavity, Sampling, and Lorentzian Polynomials

When: March 30, 2026

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: MIT Room 2-143

Speaker: Jonathan Leake (University of Waterloo)

CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR

K-theoretic stable envelopes, quantum loop groups and wall-crossings

When: March 30, 2026

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G102

Speaker: Tianqing Zhu (Columbia University)

March 31

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)

April 1

HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS

Complementary vectors of doubly Cohen-Macaulay complexes

When: April 1, 2026

4:15 pm - 5:15 pm

Where: MIT, Room 2-132

Speaker: Matt Larson (Princeton)

MATH TABLE

Large Cardinals, Left-Distributivity, and Laver Tables

When: April 1, 2026

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Speaker: Preston Bushnell - Harvard University

April 2

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)

There are no events on this day.

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