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
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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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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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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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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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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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4 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)
MATH TABLEMATH TABLE
The Eckmann-Hilton ArgumentWhen: March 11, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Speaker: Vincent Costa - Harvard University
CMSA EVENTSCMSA EVENTS
Millennium Prize Problems Lecture – Javier Gómez-Serrano: Navier-Stokes Existence or BreakdownWhen: March 11, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center Hall C
Speaker: Javier Gómez-Serrano (Brown University)
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2 events,
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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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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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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