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Graph integrals on Kahler manifoldsCMSA EVENTS: CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Graph integrals on Kahler manifoldsWhen: September 29, 2025
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Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2025Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2025When: September 29, 2025
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Compact moduli of elliptic surfaces with a multiple fiberSEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Compact moduli of elliptic surfaces with a multiple fiberWhen: September 30, 2025
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1. On Topological Structures in String Theory 2. Bounded L theoryCMSA EVENTS: CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
1. On Topological Structures in String Theory 2. Bounded L theoryWhen: September 30, 2025
4:15 pm - 6:15 pm
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Speaker: Max Hubner (Harvard CMSA) | Bowen Yang (Harvard CMSA)
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Tropicalized quantum field theoryCMSA EVENTS: CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
Tropicalized quantum field theoryWhen: October 1, 2025
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Speaker: Michael Borinsky (Perimeter Institute)
A combinatorial formula for interpolation Macdonald polynomialsSEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
A combinatorial formula for interpolation Macdonald polynomialsWhen: October 1, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Speaker: Houcine Ben Dali (Harvard)
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Condensing Sheaves on ManifoldsSEMINARS: THURSDAY SEMINAR
Condensing Sheaves on ManifoldsWhen: October 2, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Speaker: Logan Hyslop - Harvard
Special Kähler geometry and collapsingCMSA EVENTS: Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
Special Kähler geometry and collapsingWhen: October 2, 2025
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Speaker: Valentino Tosatti (NYU Courant Institute)
Buff forms and invariant curves of near-parabolic mapsSEMINARS: ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Buff forms and invariant curves of near-parabolic mapsWhen: October 2, 2025
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Local Donaldson-Scaduto conjectureCMSA EVENTS: CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
Local Donaldson-Scaduto conjectureWhen: October 3, 2025
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Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani (Harvard)
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CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematical foundations of AIWhen: October 6, 2025 - October 10, 2025
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Geometry of dimer modelsCMSA EVENTS: CMSA COLLOQUIUM
Geometry of dimer modelsWhen: October 6, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Speaker: Alexei Borodin (MIT)
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Boundedness theorems for fibered varieties with trivial canonical bundleSEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Boundedness theorems for fibered varieties with trivial canonical bundleWhen: October 7, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Speaker: Roberto Svaldi (Università degli Studi di Milano)
A Classifying Space for Phases of Matrix Product StatesCMSA EVENTS: CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
A Classifying Space for Phases of Matrix Product StatesWhen: October 7, 2025
4:15 pm - 6:15 pm
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Speaker: Daniel Spiegel (Harvard)
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A new approach to $p$-Hecke correspondences and Rapoport-Zink spacesSEMINARS
A new approach to $p$-Hecke correspondences and Rapoport-Zink spacesWhen: October 8, 2025
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Expansivity and topological growth ratesSEMINARS: INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Expansivity and topological growth ratesWhen: October 8, 2025
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Speaker: Dylan Thurston (Boston College)
Machine Learning for Knot TheoryMachine Learning for Knot TheoryWhen: October 8, 2025
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Speaker: Luke Zhu - Harvard University
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Profinite tensor powersCMSA EVENTS: CMSA Algebra Seminar
Profinite tensor powersWhen: October 9, 2025
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Speaker: David Treumann (Boston College)
Descendability in sheaf categoriesSEMINARS: THURSDAY SEMINAR
Descendability in sheaf categoriesWhen: October 9, 2025
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Joint Colloquium: Incidence geometry and tiled surfacesJoint Colloquium: Incidence geometry and tiled surfacesWhen: October 9, 2025
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The Rozansky-Witten field theory in the functorial TQFT formalismCMSA EVENTS: CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
The Rozansky-Witten field theory in the functorial TQFT formalismWhen: October 10, 2025
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Speaker: Lorenzo Riva (Harvard CMSA)
On a variant of Lie_nSEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
On a variant of Lie_nWhen: October 10, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Sheila Sundaram (University of Minnesota)
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p-adic zeta function, Hodge theory and hyperplane arrangementsSEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
p-adic zeta function, Hodge theory and hyperplane arrangementsWhen: October 14, 2025
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Speaker: Ruijie Yang (University of Kansas)
What is a “nonlinear” near-symplectic form?CMSA EVENTS: CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
What is a “nonlinear” near-symplectic form?When: October 14, 2025
4:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Dylan Galt (Harvard) | Keyou Zeng (CMSA)
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3 events,
Recent progress towards Malle’s conjectureSEMINARS
Recent progress towards Malle’s conjectureWhen: October 15, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Speaker: Brandon Alberts (Eastern Michigan University)
Shuffles in the symmetric group algebraSEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Shuffles in the symmetric group algebraWhen: October 15, 2025
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Millennium Prize Problems Lecture – Sourav Chatterjee: Yang-Mills Existence and Mass GapCMSA EVENTS
Millennium Prize Problems Lecture – Sourav Chatterjee: Yang-Mills Existence and Mass GapWhen: October 15, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center Hall D
Speaker: Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford University)
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Lech’s inequality and stability of local ringsCMSA EVENTS: CMSA Algebra Seminar
Lech’s inequality and stability of local ringsWhen: October 16, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Linquan Ma (Purdue University)
Abelianization of tau functionsCMSA EVENTS: Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
Abelianization of tau functionsWhen: October 16, 2025
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Speaker: Andrew Neitzke (Yale)
Two point concentration of the domination number of the random graphSEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Two point concentration of the domination number of the random graphWhen: October 16, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Speaker: Tom Bohman (Carnegie Mellon University)
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DMFT, Two Point Correlations of Resolvents, and Applications to Machine Learning TheoryCMSA EVENTS: CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
DMFT, Two Point Correlations of Resolvents, and Applications to Machine Learning TheoryWhen: October 17, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Sullivan’s work on Lipschitz structuresCMSA EVENTS: CSMA FREEDMAN SEMINAR
Sullivan’s work on Lipschitz structuresWhen: October 17, 2025
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Speaker: Mike Freedman (Harvard CMSA) | Bowen Yang (Harvard CMSA)
Hook formulas for skew shapes via contour integrals and vertex modelsSEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Hook formulas for skew shapes via contour integrals and vertex modelsWhen: October 17, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Greta Panova (USC)
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Categorical ‘t Hooft expansion and Chiral AlgebrasCMSA EVENTS: CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Categorical ‘t Hooft expansion and Chiral AlgebrasWhen: October 20, 2025
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Speaker: Adrian López-Raven - Perimeter Institute
CMSA Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott: Dennis GaitsgoryCMSA EVENTS
CMSA Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott: Dennis GaitsgoryWhen: October 20, 2025
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Speaker: Dennis Gaitsgory (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)
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The cone theorem for Kähler varietiesSEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
The cone theorem for Kähler varietiesWhen: October 21, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Speaker: Christopher Hacon (University of Utah)
CMSA Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott: Dennis GaitsgoryCMSA EVENTS
CMSA Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott: Dennis GaitsgoryWhen: October 21, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center Hall A
Speaker: Dennis Gaitsgory (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)
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The Carleson project: a collaborative formalizationCMSA EVENTS: CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
The Carleson project: a collaborative formalizationWhen: October 22, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: María Inés de Frutos Fernández (Mathematical Institute, University of Bonn)
Murmurations for elliptic curves ordered by heightSEMINARS
Murmurations for elliptic curves ordered by heightWhen: October 22, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Andrew Sutherland (MIT)
Canonical representations of surface groupsSEMINARS: INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Canonical representations of surface groupsWhen: October 22, 2025
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Aaron Landesman (Harvard University)
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4 events,
Character sheaves on the loop Lie algebra and its global implicationsCMSA EVENTS: CMSA Algebra Seminar
Character sheaves on the loop Lie algebra and its global implicationsWhen: October 23, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Zhiwei Yun (MIT)
Six Functor Formalisms on Condensed AnimaSEMINARS: THURSDAY SEMINAR
Six Functor Formalisms on Condensed AnimaWhen: October 23, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Linus Hamann (Harvard)
Tensor networks, fusion categories and operator algebrasSEMINARS: MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
Tensor networks, fusion categories and operator algebrasWhen: October 23, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Jefferson Lab 368
Speaker: Yasuyuki Kawahigashi - University of Tokyo/RIKEN
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4 events,
Discrete geometry, semialgebraic graphs, and the polynomial methodSEMINARS: RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS
Discrete geometry, semialgebraic graphs, and the polynomial methodWhen: October 24, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Where: MIT, Room 2-361
Speaker: Jonathan Tidor - Princeton University
Discrete geometry, semialgebraic graphs, and the polynomial methodSEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Discrete geometry, semialgebraic graphs, and the polynomial methodWhen: October 24, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Where: MIT, Room 2-361
Speaker: Jonathan Tidor (Princeton University)
Analytic Spread of Binomial Edge IdealsCMSA EVENTS: CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
Analytic Spread of Binomial Edge IdealsWhen: October 24, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Stephen Landsittel (Harvard CMSA)
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de Rham Theory in Derived Differential GeometryCMSA EVENTS: CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
de Rham Theory in Derived Differential GeometryWhen: October 27, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA G10
Speaker: Grigorii Taroian (U Toronto)
Rigidity, expansion and polytopesCMSA EVENTS: CMSA COLLOQUIUM
Rigidity, expansion and polytopesWhen: October 27, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Eran Nevo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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2 events,
Stable maps to Calabi–Yau fivefoldsSEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Stable maps to Calabi–Yau fivefoldsWhen: October 28, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT 2-131
Speaker: Yannik Schuler (ETH)
Holography for closed universes & Non-supersymmetric branes, bordism, and fractional charges.CMSA EVENTS: CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
Holography for closed universes & Non-supersymmetric branes, bordism, and fractional charges.When: October 28, 2025
4:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Elliott Gesteau (CMSA) | Sanjay Raman (Harvard)
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2 events,
Excursion functions on $p$-adic $\mathrm{SL}_2$SEMINARS
Excursion functions on $p$-adic $\mathrm{SL}_2$When: October 29, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Jacksyn Bakeburg (Boston University)
The underlying topology of dataSEMINARS: OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD
The underlying topology of dataWhen: October 29, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Jose Perea (Northeastern University)
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5 events,
Affine Springer fibers and representationsCMSA EVENTS: CMSA Algebra Seminar
Affine Springer fibers and representationsWhen: October 30, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT)
Six Functor Formalisms on Condensed Anima IISEMINARS: THURSDAY SEMINAR
Six Functor Formalisms on Condensed Anima IIWhen: October 30, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Linus Hamann (Harvard University)
The critical locus is indeed generically irreducibleSEMINARS: ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
The critical locus is indeed generically irreducibleWhen: October 30, 2025
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Matt Olechnowicz (Concordia University)
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2 events,
Skein remain the sameCMSA EVENTS: CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
Skein remain the sameWhen: October 31, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Sunghyuk Park (CMSA)
Enumerating frieze patterns via Diophantine geometrySEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Enumerating frieze patterns via Diophantine geometryWhen: October 31, 2025
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Where: Science Center Hall E
Speaker: Robin Zhang (MIT)
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CMSA EVENTS: CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Graph integrals on Kahler manifolds
When: September 29, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Minghao Wang (Boston University)
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2025
When: September 29, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center Hall D
Speaker: Emily Braley - Johns Hopkins University
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Compact moduli of elliptic surfaces with a multiple fiber
When: September 30, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Yongnam Lee (IBS-Center for Complex Geometry)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
1. On Topological Structures in String Theory 2. Bounded L theory
When: September 30, 2025
4:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Max Hubner (Harvard CMSA) | Bowen Yang (Harvard CMSA)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
Tropicalized quantum field theory
When: October 1, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Michael Borinsky (Perimeter Institute)
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
A combinatorial formula for interpolation Macdonald polynomials
When: October 1, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Houcine Ben Dali (Harvard)
SEMINARS: THURSDAY SEMINAR
Condensing Sheaves on Manifolds
When: October 2, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Logan Hyslop - Harvard
CMSA EVENTS: Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
Special Kähler geometry and collapsing
When: October 2, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Valentino Tosatti (NYU Courant Institute)
SEMINARS: ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Buff forms and invariant curves of near-parabolic maps
When: October 2, 2025
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Saeed Zakeri (Queens College, CUNY Graduate Center)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
Local Donaldson-Scaduto conjecture
When: October 3, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani (Harvard)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematical foundations of AI
When: October 6, 2025 - October 10, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA COLLOQUIUM
Geometry of dimer models
When: October 6, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Alexei Borodin (MIT)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematical foundations of AI
When: October 6, 2025 - October 10, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Boundedness theorems for fibered varieties with trivial canonical bundle
When: October 7, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Roberto Svaldi (Università degli Studi di Milano)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
A Classifying Space for Phases of Matrix Product States
When: October 7, 2025
4:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Daniel Spiegel (Harvard)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematical foundations of AI
When: October 6, 2025 - October 10, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
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A new approach to $p$-Hecke correspondences and Rapoport-Zink spaces
When: October 8, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Keerthi Madapusi (Boston College)
SEMINARS: INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Expansivity and topological growth rates
When: October 8, 2025
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Dylan Thurston (Boston College)
Machine Learning for Knot Theory
When: October 8, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Luke Zhu - Harvard University
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematical foundations of AI
When: October 6, 2025 - October 10, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA Algebra Seminar
Profinite tensor powers
When: October 9, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: David Treumann (Boston College)
SEMINARS: THURSDAY SEMINAR
Descendability in sheaf categories
When: October 9, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Dhilan Lahoti (Harvard)
Joint Colloquium: Incidence geometry and tiled surfaces
When: October 9, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center Hall D
Speaker: Sergey Fomin (Michigan)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematical foundations of AI
When: October 6, 2025 - October 10, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
The Rozansky-Witten field theory in the functorial TQFT formalism
When: October 10, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Lorenzo Riva (Harvard CMSA)
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
On a variant of Lie_n
When: October 10, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Sheila Sundaram (University of Minnesota)
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
p-adic zeta function, Hodge theory and hyperplane arrangements
When: October 14, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Ruijie Yang (University of Kansas)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
What is a “nonlinear” near-symplectic form?
When: October 14, 2025
4:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Dylan Galt (Harvard) | Keyou Zeng (CMSA)
SEMINARS
Recent progress towards Malle’s conjecture
When: October 15, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Brandon Alberts (Eastern Michigan University)
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Shuffles in the symmetric group algebra
When: October 15, 2025
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: MIT, Room 2-132
Speaker: Darij Grinberg (Drexel University)
CMSA EVENTS
Millennium Prize Problems Lecture – Sourav Chatterjee: Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap
When: October 15, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center Hall D
Speaker: Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford University)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA Algebra Seminar
Lech’s inequality and stability of local rings
When: October 16, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Linquan Ma (Purdue University)
CMSA EVENTS: Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar
Abelianization of tau functions
When: October 16, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Andrew Neitzke (Yale)
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Two point concentration of the domination number of the random graph
When: October 16, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: MIT, Room 2-139
Speaker: Tom Bohman (Carnegie Mellon University)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
DMFT, Two Point Correlations of Resolvents, and Applications to Machine Learning Theory
When: October 17, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Blake Bordelon (Harvard CMSA)
CMSA EVENTS: CSMA FREEDMAN SEMINAR
Sullivan’s work on Lipschitz structures
When: October 17, 2025
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Mike Freedman (Harvard CMSA) | Bowen Yang (Harvard CMSA)
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Hook formulas for skew shapes via contour integrals and vertex models
When: October 17, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Greta Panova (USC)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Categorical ‘t Hooft expansion and Chiral Algebras
When: October 20, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA G10
Speaker: Adrian López-Raven - Perimeter Institute
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott: Dennis Gaitsgory
When: October 20, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center Hall A
Speaker: Dennis Gaitsgory (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
The cone theorem for Kähler varieties
When: October 21, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Christopher Hacon (University of Utah)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott: Dennis Gaitsgory
When: October 21, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center Hall A
Speaker: Dennis Gaitsgory (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
The Carleson project: a collaborative formalization
When: October 22, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: María Inés de Frutos Fernández (Mathematical Institute, University of Bonn)
SEMINARS
Murmurations for elliptic curves ordered by height
When: October 22, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Andrew Sutherland (MIT)
SEMINARS: INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Canonical representations of surface groups
When: October 22, 2025
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Aaron Landesman (Harvard University)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA Algebra Seminar
Character sheaves on the loop Lie algebra and its global implications
When: October 23, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Zhiwei Yun (MIT)
SEMINARS: THURSDAY SEMINAR
Six Functor Formalisms on Condensed Anima
When: October 23, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Linus Hamann (Harvard)
SEMINARS: MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
Tensor networks, fusion categories and operator algebras
When: October 23, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Jefferson Lab 368
Speaker: Yasuyuki Kawahigashi - University of Tokyo/RIKEN
SEMINARS: RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS
Discrete geometry, semialgebraic graphs, and the polynomial method
When: October 24, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Where: MIT, Room 2-361
Speaker: Jonathan Tidor - Princeton University
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Discrete geometry, semialgebraic graphs, and the polynomial method
When: October 24, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Where: MIT, Room 2-361
Speaker: Jonathan Tidor (Princeton University)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
Analytic Spread of Binomial Edge Ideals
When: October 24, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Stephen Landsittel (Harvard CMSA)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
de Rham Theory in Derived Differential Geometry
When: October 27, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA G10
Speaker: Grigorii Taroian (U Toronto)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA COLLOQUIUM
Rigidity, expansion and polytopes
When: October 27, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Eran Nevo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Stable maps to Calabi–Yau fivefolds
When: October 28, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT 2-131
Speaker: Yannik Schuler (ETH)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
Holography for closed universes & Non-supersymmetric branes, bordism, and fractional charges.
When: October 28, 2025
4:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Elliott Gesteau (CMSA) | Sanjay Raman (Harvard)
SEMINARS
Excursion functions on $p$-adic $\mathrm{SL}_2$
When: October 29, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Jacksyn Bakeburg (Boston University)
SEMINARS: OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD
The underlying topology of data
When: October 29, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Jose Perea (Northeastern University)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA Algebra Seminar
Affine Springer fibers and representations
When: October 30, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT)
SEMINARS: THURSDAY SEMINAR
Six Functor Formalisms on Condensed Anima II
When: October 30, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Linus Hamann (Harvard University)
SEMINARS: ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
The critical locus is indeed generically irreducible
When: October 30, 2025
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Matt Olechnowicz (Concordia University)
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
Skein remain the same
When: October 31, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Sunghyuk Park (CMSA)
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Enumerating frieze patterns via Diophantine geometry
When: October 31, 2025
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Where: Science Center Hall E
Speaker: Robin Zhang (MIT)