CMSA COLLOQUIUM CMSA COLLOQUIUM CMSA Colloquium: The Geography of Symplectic 4-Manifolds When: October 26, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: Anar Akhmedov (University of Minnesota)
MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE Harvard Mathematical Picture Language Seminar: Bootloops Claude-shaped Science Across Disciplines When: October 27, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Jefferson Lab 368 Speaker: Matt Schwartz (Harvard)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: A Rigorous Construction of the Free Quantum Field When: October 27, 2026 4:15 pm - 6:30 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Kason Kunkelmann (Harvard)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS CMSA New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar: The IEANTN Project: Automation and Mathematical Understanding When: October 28, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where: Virtually Speaker: Xinjie He (UCLA)
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Zamolodchikov Periodic Cluster Algebras When: October 28, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Science Center 232 Speaker: Ariana Chin (UCLA)
NUMBER THEORY NUMBER THEORY Number Theory Seminar: Describing the cohomology of congruence subgroups via categorical Langlands When: October 28, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Matthew Emerton (University of Chicago)
THURSDAY SEMINAR THURSDAY SEMINAR Thursday Seminar: Stefanich Rings II When: October 29, 2026 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Linus Hamman (Harvard)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS Algebraic Dynamics seminar: p-adic Siegel disks on K3 surfaces When: October 29, 2026 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Where: Science Center 232 Speaker: Ben Church (MIT)
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Worldsheets, baby universes, and asymptotic representation theory When: October 29, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: Elliott Gesteau (MIT & CMSA)
CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR CMSA Member Seminar: Poincaré Duality in Quantum Error-Correcting Codes When: October 30, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room Speaker: Bowen Yang (Harvard CMSA)
AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS Doing Mathematics with AI Agents When: October 31, 2026 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Where: Harvard Science Center
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Random graphs: The extreme tail When: November 2, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: MIT Room 2-143 Speaker: Huy Tuan Pham (University of Chicago)
CMSA COLLOQUIUM CMSA COLLOQUIUM CMSA Colloquium: Extreme Diffusion When: November 2, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: Ivan Corwin (Columbia University)
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Complex structures on S^6 When: November 3, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Phil Engel (UIC)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: The free field and the Fock space When: November 3, 2026 4:15 pm - 6:30 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Tobias Schmidt (CMSA)
CMSA Q&A Seminar CMSA Q&A Seminar CMSA Q&A Seminar: Can Math Mend a Broken Heart? When: November 4, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room Speaker: Wes Cain (Harvard)
NUMBER THEORY NUMBER THEORY Number Theory Seminar: The Hodge conjecture for CM abelian varieties When: November 4, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Keerthi Madapusi (Boston College)
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Spectra of shuffling operators as evaluations of supersymmetric functions When: November 4, 2026 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm Where: MIT, Room 2-132 Speaker: Sarah Brauner (UPenn)
OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS Introductory Math Seminar: Some Thoughts on Teaching: Why Physics Matters for the Integral Theorems of Vector Calculus When: November 5, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Science Center 232 Speaker: Jacob Barandes (Harvard)
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Recent developments in super geometry When: November 5, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)
2026-11-06 CMSA Northeast Conference on Categorical Methods CMSA EVENTS CMSA EVENTS CMSA Northeast Conference on Categorical Methods When: November 6, 2026 - November 7, 2026 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY Gauge Theory and Topology Seminar: Recent progress in 4-dimensional Ricci flow and potential applications to topology When: November 6, 2026 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Richard Bamler (UC Berkeley)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026 When: November 9, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Science Center 119 Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
CMSA COLLOQUIUM CMSA COLLOQUIUM CMSA Colloquium: Unitary extended topological field theories and higher hermitian objects When: November 9, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: Lukas Müller (LMU Munich)
2026-11-19 Current Developments in Mathematics 2026 CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MATHEMATICS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, CONFERENCES CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MATHEMATICS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, CONFERENCES Current Developments in Mathematics 2026 When: November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026 12:00 am - 11:59 pm Where: Science Center Hall A Speaker: Roger Casals - UC Davis | Jennifer Morse - University of Virginia | Naomi Sweeting - MIT
AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS Doing Mathematics with AI Agents When: November 21, 2026 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Where: Harvard Science Center
CMSA COLLOQUIUM CMSA COLLOQUIUM CMSA Colloquium: Snake graphs and q-deformed real numbers When: November 30, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: James Propp (UMass Lowell)
CMSA COLLOQUIUM CMSA Colloquium: The Geography of Symplectic 4-Manifolds When: October 26, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: Anar Akhmedov (University of Minnesota)
MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE Harvard Mathematical Picture Language Seminar: Bootloops Claude-shaped Science Across Disciplines When: October 27, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Jefferson Lab 368 Speaker: Matt Schwartz (Harvard)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: A Rigorous Construction of the Free Quantum Field When: October 27, 2026 4:15 pm - 6:30 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Kason Kunkelmann (Harvard)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS CMSA New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar: The IEANTN Project: Automation and Mathematical Understanding When: October 28, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where: Virtually Speaker: Xinjie He (UCLA)
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Zamolodchikov Periodic Cluster Algebras When: October 28, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Science Center 232 Speaker: Ariana Chin (UCLA)
NUMBER THEORY Number Theory Seminar: Describing the cohomology of congruence subgroups via categorical Langlands When: October 28, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Matthew Emerton (University of Chicago)
THURSDAY SEMINAR Thursday Seminar: Stefanich Rings II When: October 29, 2026 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Linus Hamman (Harvard)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS Algebraic Dynamics seminar: p-adic Siegel disks on K3 surfaces When: October 29, 2026 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Where: Science Center 232 Speaker: Ben Church (MIT)
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Worldsheets, baby universes, and asymptotic representation theory When: October 29, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: Elliott Gesteau (MIT & CMSA)
CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR CMSA Member Seminar: Poincaré Duality in Quantum Error-Correcting Codes When: October 30, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room Speaker: Bowen Yang (Harvard CMSA)
AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS Doing Mathematics with AI Agents When: October 31, 2026 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Where: Harvard Science Center
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Random graphs: The extreme tail When: November 2, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: MIT Room 2-143 Speaker: Huy Tuan Pham (University of Chicago)
CMSA COLLOQUIUM CMSA Colloquium: Extreme Diffusion When: November 2, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: Ivan Corwin (Columbia University)
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Complex structures on S^6 When: November 3, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Phil Engel (UIC)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: The free field and the Fock space When: November 3, 2026 4:15 pm - 6:30 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Tobias Schmidt (CMSA)
CMSA Q&A Seminar CMSA Q&A Seminar: Can Math Mend a Broken Heart? When: November 4, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room Speaker: Wes Cain (Harvard)
NUMBER THEORY Number Theory Seminar: The Hodge conjecture for CM abelian varieties When: November 4, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Keerthi Madapusi (Boston College)
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Spectra of shuffling operators as evaluations of supersymmetric functions When: November 4, 2026 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm Where: MIT, Room 2-132 Speaker: Sarah Brauner (UPenn)
OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS Introductory Math Seminar: Some Thoughts on Teaching: Why Physics Matters for the Integral Theorems of Vector Calculus When: November 5, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Science Center 232 Speaker: Jacob Barandes (Harvard)
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Recent developments in super geometry When: November 5, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)
CMSA EVENTS CMSA Northeast Conference on Categorical Methods When: November 6, 2026 - November 7, 2026 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY Gauge Theory and Topology Seminar: Recent progress in 4-dimensional Ricci flow and potential applications to topology When: November 6, 2026 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Where: Science Center 507 Speaker: Richard Bamler (UC Berkeley)
CMSA EVENTS CMSA Northeast Conference on Categorical Methods When: November 6, 2026 - November 7, 2026 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026 When: November 9, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Science Center 119 Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
CMSA COLLOQUIUM CMSA Colloquium: Unitary extended topological field theories and higher hermitian objects When: November 9, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: Lukas Müller (LMU Munich)
CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MATHEMATICS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, CONFERENCES Current Developments in Mathematics 2026 When: November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026 12:00 am - 11:59 pm Where: Science Center Hall A Speaker: Roger Casals - UC Davis | Jennifer Morse - University of Virginia | Naomi Sweeting - MIT
CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MATHEMATICS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, CONFERENCES Current Developments in Mathematics 2026 When: November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026 12:00 am - 11:59 pm Where: Science Center Hall A Speaker: Roger Casals - UC Davis | Jennifer Morse - University of Virginia | Naomi Sweeting - MIT
AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS Doing Mathematics with AI Agents When: November 21, 2026 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Where: Harvard Science Center
CMSA COLLOQUIUM CMSA Colloquium: Snake graphs and q-deformed real numbers When: November 30, 2026 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10 Speaker: James Propp (UMass Lowell)