No additional detail for this event.

The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a workshop on Quantum Information on April 23-24, 2018. In the days leading up to the conference, the American Mathematical Society will also be hosting a sectional meeting on quantum information on April 21-22. You can find more information here.

Register for the event here.

The following speakers are confirmed:

• Fernando G.S.L Brandão (CalTech)
• Jacob Biamonte (Skoltech)
• Isaac Chuang (MIT)
• Iris Cong (Harvard)
• Aram Harrow (MIT)
• Ke Li (HIT)
• Mikhail D. Lukin (Harvard)
• Shunlong Luo (AMSS)
• Renato Renner (ETH Zürich)
• Peter Shor (MIT)

On August 18 and 20, 2018, the Center of Mathematic Sciences and Applications and the Harvard University Mathematics Department hosted a conference on From Algebraic Geometry to Vision and AI: A Symposium Celebrating the Mathematical Work of David Mumford. The talks took place in Science Center, Hall B.

 Saturday, August 18th:  A day of talks on Vision, AI and brain sciences

Monday, August 20th: a day of talks on Math

Speakers:

• Stuart Geman, Brown
• Janos Kollar, Princeton
• Tai Sing Lee, CMU
• Emanuele Macri, Northeastern
• Jitendra Malik, Berkeley / FAIR
• Peter Michor, University of Vienna
• Michael Miller, Johns Hopkins
• Aaron Pixton, MIT
• Jayant Shah, Northeastern
• Josh Tenenbaum, MIT
• Burt Totaro, UCLA
• Avi Wigderson, IAS
• Ying Nian Wu, UCLA
• Laurent Younes, Johns Hopkins
• Song-Chun Zhu, UCLA

Organizers:

• Ching-Li Chai, University of Pennsylvania
• David Gu, Stony Brook University
• Amnon Neeman, Australian National University
• Mark Nitzberg, University of California at Berkeley
• Yang Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
• Song-Chun Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles

Publication:

Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly

Special Issue: In Honor of David Mumford

Guest Editors: Ching-Li Chai, Amnon Neeman

On August 23-24, 2018 the CMSA will be hosting our fourth annual Conference on Big Data. The Conference will feature many speakers from the Harvard community as well as scholars from across the globe, with talks focusing on computer science, statistics, math and physics, and economics.

The talks will take place in Science Center Hall B, 1 Oxford Street.

For a list of lodging options convenient to the Center, please visit our recommended lodgings page.

Please note that lunch will not be provided during the conference, but a map of Harvard Square with a list of local restaurants can be found by clicking Map & Restaurants.

Please register here. 

Confirmed Speakers: 

• Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford
• Emily Breza, Harvard
• Francesca Dominici, Harvard
• Chiara Farronato, Harvard
• Kobi Gal, Ben Gurion
• Jonah Kallenbach, Reverie Labs
• Samuel Kou, Harvard
• Laura Kreidberg, Harvard
• Danielle Li, MIT
• Libby Mishkin, Uber
• Josh Speagle, Harvard
• William Stein, University of Washington
• Alex Teyltelboym, University of Oxford
• Sergiy Verstyuk, CMSA/Harvard

Organizers: 

• Shing-Tung Yau, William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University
• Scott Duke Kominers, MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor, Harvard Business
• Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Jun Liu, Professor of Statistics, Harvard University
• Horng-Tzer Yau, Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University

The CMSA will be hosting an F-Theory workshop September 29-30, 2018. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. 

For a list of lodging options convenient to the Center, please visit our recommended lodgings page.

Click here for videos of the talks. 

Organizers:

• Paolo Aluffi (Florida State)
• Lara B. Anderson (Virginia Tech)
• Mboyo Esole (Northeastern)
• Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)

Speakers:

• Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania
• Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah
• James Gray, Virginia Tech
• Jonathan Heckman, University of Pennsylvania
• Monica Kang, Harvard University
• Sándor Kovács, University of Washington
• Anatoly Libgober, UIC
• Matilde Marcolli, Caltech, University of Toronto, and Perimeter Institute
• Washington Taylor, MIT
• Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University

On August 29-31, 2019 the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a workshop on Foundations of Computational Science. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.  This workshop is organized by David Xianfeng Gu.

Please register here. 

Speakers:

• Sarah Adel Bargal, Boston University
• Jianfeng Chen, Harvard
• Tat Seng Chua, National University of Singapore
• Ke Deng, Tsinghua
• David Xianfeng Gu, Stony Brook
• Yike Guo, Imperial College London
• Minlie Huang, Tsinghua
• Scott Kominers, Harvard
• Brian Kulis, Boston University
• Wee Sun Lee, National University of Singapore
• Qianxiao Li, National University of Singapore
• Hanzhong Liu, Tsinghua
• Jun Liu, Harvard
• Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard
• Cengiz Pehlevan, Harvard
• Donald Rubin, Harvard
• Suproteem Sarkar, Harvard
• Zuowei Shen, National University of Singapore
• Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua
• Justin Solomon, MIT
• Hang Su, Tsinghua
• Maosong Sun, Tsinghua
• Mirac Suzgun, Harvard
• Sergiy Verstyuk, CMSA
• Xiaoqin Wang, Tsinghua
• Bin Xu, Tsinghua
• Jun Zhu, Tsinghua
• Wenwu Zhu, Tsinghua

Videos of the talks are contained in the Youtube playlist below. They can also be found through links in the schedule.

The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a workshop on General Relativity from May 23 – 24, 2016. The workshop will be hosted in Room G10 of the CMSA Building located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. The workshop will start on Monday, May 23 at 9am and end on Tuesday, May 24 at 4pm.

Speakers:

1. Po-Ning Chen, Columbia University
2. Piotr T. Chruściel, University of Vienna
3. Justin Corvino, Lafayette College
4. Greg Galloway, University of Miami
5. James Guillochon, Harvard University
6. Lan-Hsuan Huang, University of Connecticut
7. Dan Kapec, Harvard University
8. Dan Lee, CUNY
9. Alex Lupsasca, Harvard University
10. Pengzi Miao, University of Miami
11. Prahar Mitra, Harvard University
12. Lorenzo Sironi, Harvard University
13. Jared Speck, MIT
14. Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University

Please click Workshop Program for a downloadable schedule with talk abstracts.

Please note that lunch will not be provided during the conference, but a map of Harvard Square with a list of local restaurants can be found by clicking Map & Resturants.

Please click here for registration – Registration is capped at 70 participants.

Schedule:

* Click titles for talk videos. All videos are also available on “Harvard CMSA” channel on Youtube, grouped into playlist “Workshop on Aspects on General Relativity“.

* This event is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF) and CMSA Harvard University.

Organizers: Piotr T. Chruściel and Shing-Tung Yau

In Fall 2018, the CMSA will host a Program on Mathematical Biology, which aims to describe recent mathematical advances in using geometry and statistics in a biological context, while also considering a range of physical theories that can predict biological shape at scales ranging from macromolecular assemblies to whole organ systems.

The plethora of natural shapes that surround us at every scale is both bewildering and astounding – from the electron micrograph of a polyhedral virus, to the branching pattern of a gnarled tree to the convolutions in the brain. Even at the human scale, the   shapes seen in a garden at the scale of a pollen grain, a seed, a sapling, a root, a flower or leaf are so numerous that “it is enough to drive the sanest man mad,” wrote Darwin. Can we classify these shapes and understand their origins quantitatively?

In biology, there is growing interest in and ability to quantify growth and form in the context of the size and shape of bacteria and other protists, to understand how polymeric assemblies grow and shrink (in the cytoskeleton), and how cells divide, change size and shape, and move to organize tissues, change their topology and geometry, and link multiple scales and connect biochemical to mechanical aspects of these problems, all in a self-regulated setting.

To understand these questions, we need to describe shape (biomathematics), predict shape (biophysics), and design shape (bioengineering).

For example, in mathematics there are some beautiful links to Nash’s embedding theorem,  connections to quasi-conformal geometry, Ricci flows and geometric PDE, to Gromov’s h principle, to geometrical singularities and singular geometries, discrete and computational differential geometry, to stochastic geometry and shape characterization (a la Grenander, Mumford etc.). A nice question here is to use the large datasets (in 4D) and analyze them using ideas from statistical geometry (a la Taylor, Adler) to look for similarities and differences across species during development, and across evolution.

In physics, there are questions of generalizing classical theories to include activity, break the usual Galilean invariance, as well as isotropy, frame indifference, homogeneity, and create both agent (cell)-based and continuum theories for ordered, active machines, linking statistical to continuum mechanics, and understanding the instabilities and patterns that arise. Active generalizations of liquid crystals, polar materials, polymers etc. are only just beginning to be explored and there are some nice physical analogs of biological growth/form that are yet to be studied.

The CMSA will be hosting a Workshop on Morphometrics, Morphogenesis and Mathematics from October 22-24 at the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.

The workshop is organized by L. Mahadevan (Harvard), O. Pourquie (Harvard), A. Srivastava (Florida).

For a list of lodging options convenient to the Center, please visit our recommended lodgings page.

Videos of the talks

Confirmed Speakers:

• Arkhat Abzhanov, Imperial College
• Siobhan Braybrook, UCLA
• Cassandra Extavour, Harvard
• Anjali Goswami, University College London
• David Gu, Stony Brook
• Jukka Jernvall, Helsinki
• Eric Klassen, Florida State
• Sayan Mukherjee, Duke
• Peter Olver, U Minnesota
• Nipam Patel, Berkeley
• Stephanie Pierce, Harvard
• Karen Sears, UCLA
• Alain Trouve, ENS-Cachan, France
• Laurent Younes, Johns Hopkins

Just over a century ago, the biologist, mathematician and philologist D’Arcy Thompson wrote “On growth and form”. The book – a literary masterpiece – is a visionary synthesis of the geometric biology of form. It also served as a call for mathematical and physical approaches to understanding the evolution and development of shape. In the century since its publication, we have seen a revolution in biology following the discovery of the genetic code, which has uncovered the molecular and cellular basis for life, combined with the ability to probe the chemical, structural, and dynamical nature of molecules, cells, tissues and organs across scales. In parallel, we have seen a blossoming of our understanding of spatiotemporal patterning in physical systems, and a gradual unveiling of the complexity of physical form. So, how far are we from realizing the century-old vision that “Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles have been moved, moulded and conformed” ?

To address this requires an appreciation of the enormous ‘morphospace’ in terms of the potential shapes and sizes that living forms take, using the language of mathematics. In parallel, we need to consider the biological processes that determine form in mathematical terms is based on understanding how instabilities and patterns in physical systems might be harnessed by evolution.

In Fall 2018, CMSA will focus on a program that aims at recent mathematical advances in describing shape using geometry and statistics in a biological context, while also considering a range of physical theories that can predict biological shape at scales ranging from macromolecular assemblies to whole organ systems.
The first workshop will focus on the interface between Morphometrics and Mathematics, while the second will focus on the interface between Morphogenesis and Physics.The workshop is organized by L. Mahadevan (Harvard), O. Pourquie (Harvard), A. Srivastava (Florida).

As part of the program on Mathematical Biology a workshop on Morphogenesis: Geometry and Physics will take place on December 3-5, 2018.  The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.

For a list of lodging options convenient to the Center, please visit our recommended lodgings page.

Videos

Please Register Here

PDF of the Schedule

Speakers:

• Arkhat Abzhanov, Imperial College
• Yohanns Bellaiche, Paris
• Cheng Ming Chuong, USC
• Zev Gartner, UCSF
• Thomas Gregor, Princeton
• Dagmar Iber, Zurich
• Ian Jermyn, Durham University
• Raymond Keller, UVA
• Allon Klein, HMS
• Lisa Manning, Syracuse
• Cristina Marchetti, UCSB
• Sean Megason, HMS
• Elliot Meyerowitz, Caltech
• Michel Milinkovitch, Geneva
• Leonardo Morsut, USC
• Olivier Pourquié, HMS
• Eric Siggia, Rockefeller University
• Ben Simons, Cambridge
• Sebastian Streichan, UCSB
• Aryeh Warmflash, Rice

Due to inclement weather on Sunday, the second half of the workshop has been moved forward one day. Sunday and Monday’s talks will now take place on Monday and Tuesday.

On January 18-21, 2019 the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a workshop on the Geometric Analysis Approach to AI.

This workshop will focus on the theoretic foundations of AI, especially various methods in Deep Learning. The topics will cover the relationship between deep learning and optimal transportation theory, DL and information geometry, DL Learning and information bottle neck and renormalization theory, DL and manifold embedding and so on. Furthermore, the recent advancements, novel methods, and real world applications of Deep Learning will also be reported and discussed.

The workshop will take place from January 18th to January 23rd, 2019. In the first four days, from January 18th to January 21, the speakers will give short courses; On the 22nd and 23rd, the speakers will give conference representations. This workshop is organized by Xianfeng Gu and Shing-Tung Yau.

The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. 

For a list of lodging options convenient to the Center, please visit our recommended lodgings page.

Please register here

Speakers: 

• Sarah Adel Bargal, Boston University
• Guy Bresler, MIT
• Tina Eliassi-Rad, Northeastern
• Yun Raymond Fu, Northeastern
• Brian Kulis, Boston University
• Na Lei, Dalian University of Technology
• Yi Ma, UC Berkeley
• Minh Hoai Nguyen, Stony Brook
• Francesco Orabona, Boston University
• Cengiz Pehlevan, Harvard SEAS
• Tomaso Poggio, MIT
• Zhiwei Qin, DiDi Research America
• Kate Saenko, Boston University
• Dimitris Samaras, Stony Brook
• Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Twente
• Steven Skiena, Stony Brook
• Vivienne Sze, MIT
• Naftali Tishby, ICNC
• Jiajun Wu, MIT
• Ying Nian Wu, UCLA
• Gangqiang Xia, Morgan Stanley
• Eric Xing, Carnegie Mellon
• Donghui Yan, UMass Dartmouth
• Alan Yuille, Johns Hopkins
• Juhua Zhu,  Argus

On August 19-20, 2019 the CMSA will be hosting our fifth annual Conference on Big Data. The Conference will feature many speakers from the Harvard community as well as scholars from across the globe, with talks focusing on computer science, statistics, math and physics, and economics.

The talks will take place in Science Center Hall D, 1 Oxford Street.

For a list of lodging options convenient to the Center, please visit our recommended lodgings page.

Please note that lunch will not be provided during the conference, but a map of Harvard Square with a list of local restaurants can be found by clicking Map & Restaurants.

Videos can be found in this Youtube playlist or in the schedule below.

The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be having a conference on Big Data August 24-26, 2015, in Science Center Hall B at Harvard University.  This conference will feature many speakers from the Harvard Community as well as many scholars from across the globe, with talks focusing on computer science, statistics, math and physics, and economics.

For more info, please contact Sarah LaBauve at slabauve@math.harvard.edu.

Registration for the conference is now closed.

Please click here for a downloadable version of this schedule.

Please note that lunch will not be provided during the conference, but a map of Harvard Square with a list of local restaurants can be found here.

Monday, August 24

Tuesday, August 25

A Banquet from 7:00 – 8:30pm will follow Tuesday’s talks. This event is by invitation only.

 Wednesday, August 26 

The workshop on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics will take place February 5-9, 2018 at the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.

Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics are two of the most central branches of modern combinatorial theory. Extremal Combinatorics deals with problems of determining or estimating the maximum or minimum possible cardinality of a collection of finite objects satisfying certain requirements. Such problems are often related to other areas including Computer Science, Information Theory, Number Theory and Geometry. This branch of Combinatorics has developed spectacularly over the last few decades. Probabilistic Combinatorics can be described informally as a (very successful) hybrid between Combinatorics and Probability, whose main object of study is probability distributions on discrete structures.

There are many points of interaction between these fields. There are deep similarities in methodology. Both subjects are mostly asymptotic in nature. Quite a few important results from Extremal Combinatorics have been proven applying probabilistic methods, and vice versa. Such emerging subjects as Extremal Problems in Random Graphs or the theory of graph limits stand explicitly at the intersection of the two fields and indicate their natural symbiosis.

The symposia will focus on the interactions between the above areas. These topics include Extremal Problems for Graphs and Set Systems, Ramsey Theory, Combinatorial Number Theory, Combinatorial Geometry, Random Graphs, Probabilistic Methods and Graph Limits.

Participation: The workshop is open to participation by all interested researchers, subject to capacity. Click here to register.

A list of lodging options convenient to the Center can also be found on our recommended lodgings page.

Confirmed participants include:

• Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois, Urbana
• Fan Chung (Graham), University of California, San Diego
• Asaf Ferber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jacob Fox, Stanford Unviersity
• David Gamarnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Penny Haxell, University of Waterloo
• Hao Huang, Emory University
• Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University
• Peter Keevash, Oxford University
• Michael Krivelevich, Tel Aviv University
• Daniela Kühn, University of Birmingham
• Shoham Letzer, ITS Zürich
• Shachar Lovett, University of California, San Diego
• Eyal Lubetzky, Courant Institute
• Rob Morris, IMPA
• Bhargav Narayanan, Rutgers University
• Deryk Osthus, University of Birmingham
• Janos Pach, NYU
• Yuval Peres, Microsoft Redmond
• Alexey Pokryovskyi, ETH Zürich
• Wojciech Samotij, Tel Aviv University
• Lisa Sauermann, Stanford University
• Mathias Schacht, University of Hamburg
• Alexander Scott, University of Oxford
• Asaf Shapira, Tel Aviv University
• Jozef Skokan, London School of Economics
• Joel Spencer, New York University
• Angelika Steger, ETH Zurich
• Jacques Verstraete, University of California, San Diego
• Yufei Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• David Zuckerman, University of Texas at Austin

Co-organizers of this workshop include Benny Sudakov and David Conlon.  More details about this event, including participants, will be updated soon.

The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a 3-day workshop on Homological Mirror Symmetry and related areas on May 6 – May 8, 2016 at Harvard CMSA Building: Room G10 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Organizers:

D. Auroux, S.C. Lau, N.C. Leung, Bong Lian, C.C. Liu, S.T. Yau

Speakers:

1. Netanel Blaier (MIT)
2. Kwokwai Chan (CUHK)
3. Bohan Fang (Peking University)
4. Amanda Francis (BYU)
5. Hansol Hong (CUHK)
6. Heather Lee (Purdue University)
7. Si Li (Tsinghua University)
8. Yu-Shen Lin (Stanford University)
9. Alex Perry (Harvard University)
10. Hiro Tanaka (Harvard University)
11. Sara Tukachinsky (HUJ)
12. Michael Viscardi (MIT)
13. Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University)
14. Jingyu Zhao (Columbia University)

Please click here for the conference Main Website.

Please click Simons Workshop Schedule with Abstract for a downloadable schedule with talk abstracts.

Please note that lunch will not be provided during the conference, but a map of Harvard Square with a list of local restaurants can be found by clicking Map & Resturants.

Schedule:

* Click titles for talk videos. All videos are also available on “Harvard CMSA” channel on Youtube, grouped into playlist “Simons Collaboration on Homological Mirror symmetry“.

This event is sponsored by the Simons Foundation and CMSA Harvard University.

On March 24-26, The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a workshop on Geometry, Imaging, and Computing, based off  the journal of the same name. The workshop will take place in CMSA building, G10.

The organizing committee consists of Yang Wang (HKUST), Ronald Lui (CUHK), David Gu (Stony Brook), and Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard).

Please click here to register for the event.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Jianfeng Cai (HKUST)
• Shikui Chen (Stony Brook)
• Jerome Darbon (Brown University)
• Laurent Demanet (MIT)
• David Gu (Stony Brook)
• Monica Hurdal (Florida State University)
• Rongjie Lai (RPI)
• Yue Lu (Harvard)
• Ronald Lok Ming Lui (CUHK)
• Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (Harvard)
• Eric Miller (Tufts)
• Ashley Prater  (AFOSR)
• Lixin Shen (Syracuse University)
• Allen Tannenbaum (Stony Brook)
• Guowei Wei (Michigan State)
• Stephen Wong (Houston Methodist)
• Jun Zhang (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
• Song Zhang (Purdue University)
• Hongkai Zhao (University of California, Irvine)

The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a workshop on Optimization in Image Processing on June 27 – 30, 2016. This 4-day workshop aims to bring together researchers to exchange and stimulate ideas in imaging sciences, with a special focus on new approaches based on optimization methods. This is a cutting-edge topic with crucial impact in various areas of imaging science including inverse problems, image processing and computer vision. 16 speakers will participate in this event, which we think will be a very stimulating and exciting workshop. The workshop will be hosted in Room G10 of the CMSA Building located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Titles, abstracts and schedule will be provided nearer to the event.

Speakers:

1. Antonin Chambolle, CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique
2. Raymond Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
3. Ke Chen, University of Liverpool
4. Patrick Louis Combettes, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
5. Mario Figueiredo, Instituto Superior Técnico
6. Alfred Hero, University of Michigan
7. Ronald Lok Ming Lui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
8. Mila Nikolova, Ecole Normale Superieure Cachan
9. Shoham Sabach, Israel Institute of Technology
10. Martin Benning, University of Cambridge
11. Jin Keun Seo, Yonsei University
12. Fiorella Sgallari, University of Bologna
13. Gabriele Steidl, Kaiserslautern University of Technology
14. Joachim Weickert, Saarland University
15. Isao Yamada, Tokyo Institute of Technology
16. Wotao Yin, UCLA

Please click Workshop Program for a downloadable schedule with talk abstracts.

Please note that lunch will not be provided during the conference, but a map of Harvard Square with a list of local restaurants can be found by clicking Map & Resturants.

Please click here for registration – Registration Deadline: June 7, 2016; Registration is capped at 70 participants.

Schedule:

* This event is sponsored by CMSA Harvard University.

Organizers: Raymond Chan and Shing-Tung Yau

The Machine Learning for Multiscale Model Reduction Workshop will take place on March 27-29, 2019. This is the second of two workshops organized by Michael Brenner, Shmuel Rubinstein, and Tom Hou.  The first, Fluid turbulence and Singularities of the Euler/ Navier Stokes equations, will take place on March 13-15, 2019. Both workshops will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. 

For a list of lodging options convenient to the Center, please visit our recommended lodgings page.

List of registrants

Speakers:

• Joan Bruna, Courant Institute
• Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Tech
• Stephan Hoyer, Google Research
• De Huang, Caltech
• George Karniadakis, Brown University
• Richard Kerswell, Cambridge University
• Stephane Mallat, ENS
• Stanley Osher, UCLA
• Jacob Page, Cambridge University
• Houman Owhadi, Caltech
• Zuowei Shen, National University of Singapore
• Jack Xin, UC Irvine
• Jinchao Xu, Penn State University
• Lexing Ying, Stanford University and Facebook AI Research
• Pengchuan Zhang, Microsoft Research

The CMSA will be hosting a four-day Simons Collaboration Workshop on Homological Mirror Symmetry and Hodge Theory on January 10-13, 2018. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.

Please click here to register for this event.  We have space for up to 30 registrants on a first come, first serve basis.

Confirmed Participants:

• Mohammed Abouzaid (Columbia University)
• Sergueï Barannikov (Paris Diderot University)
• Cheol-Hyun Cho (Seoul National University)
• Young-Hoon Kiem (Seoul National University)
• Thomas Lam (University of Michigan)
• Siu-Cheong Lau (Boston University)
• Radu Laza (Stony Brook University)
• Si Li (Tsinghua University)
• Kaoru Ono (Kyoto University)
• Tony Pantev (University of Pennsylvania)
• Colleen Robles (Duke University)
• Yan Soibelman (Kansas State University)
• Kazushi Ueda (University of Tokyo)
• Chenglong Yu (Harvard University)
• Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University)

The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a Mini-school on Nonlinear Equations on December 3-4, 2016. The conference will have speakers and will be hosted at Harvard CMSA Building: Room G10 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

The mini-school will consist of lectures by experts in geometry and analysis detailing important developments in the theory of nonlinear equations and their applications from the last 20-30 years.  The mini-school is aimed at graduate students and young researchers working in geometry, analysis, physics and related fields.

Please click here to register for this event.

Speakers:

1. Cliff Taubes (Harvard University)
2. Valentino Tosatti (Northwestern University)
3. Pengfei Guan (McGill University)
4. Jared Speck (MIT)

Schedule:

The workshop on coding and information theory will take place April 9-13, 2018 at the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.

This workshop will focus on new developments in coding and information theory that sit at the intersection of combinatorics and complexity, and will bring together researchers from several communities — coding theory, information theory, combinatorics, and complexity theory — to exchange ideas and form collaborations to attack these problems.

Squarely in this intersection of combinatorics and complexity, locally testable/correctable codes and list-decodable codes both have deep connections to (and in some cases, direct motivation from) complexity theory and pseudorandomness, and recent progress in these areas has directly exploited and explored connections to combinatorics and graph theory.  One goal of this workshop is to push ahead on these and other topics that are in the purview of the year-long program.  Another goal is to highlight (a subset of) topics in coding and information theory which are especially ripe for collaboration between these communities.  Examples of such topics include polar codes; new results on Reed-Muller codes and their thresholds; coding for distributed storage and for DNA memories; coding for deletions and synchronization errors; storage capacity of graphs; zero-error information theory; bounds on codes using semidefinite programming; tensorization in distributed source and channel coding; and applications of information-theoretic methods in probability and combinatorics.  All these topics have attracted a great deal of recent interest in the coding and information theory communities, and have rich connections to combinatorics and complexity which could benefit from further exploration and collaboration.

Participation: The workshop is open to participation by all interested researchers, subject to capacity. Click here to register.

Click here for a list of registrants. 

A list of lodging options convenient to the Center can also be found on our recommended lodgings page.

Confirmed participants include:

• Emmanuel Abbe, Princeton University
• Simeon Ball, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Boris Bukh, Carnegie Mellon University
• Mahdi Cheraghchi, Imperial College London
• Sivakanth Gopi, Princeton University
• Elena Grigorescu, University of Purdue
• Hamed Hassani, University of Pennsylvania
• Navin Kashyap, Indian Institute of Science
• Young-Han Kim, University of California, San Diego
• Swastik Kopparty, Rutgers University
• Nati Linial, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Shachar Lovett, University of California, San Diego
• William Martin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Arya Mazumdar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Or Meir, University of Haifa
• Olgica Milenkovic, ECE Illinois
• Chandra Nair, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
• Yury Polyanskiy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Maxim Raginsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Sankeerth Rao Karingula, UC San Diego
• Ankit Singh Rawat, MIT
• Noga Ron-Zewi, University of Haifa
• Ron Roth, Israel Institute of Technology
• Atri Rudra, State University of New York, Buffalo
• Alex Samorodnitsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Itzhak Tamo, Tel Aviv University
• Amnon Ta-Shma, Tel Aviv University
• Himanshu Tyagi, Indian Institute of Science
• David Zuckerman, University of Texas at Austin

On September 10-11, 2019, the CMSA will be hosting a second workshop on Topological Aspects of Condensed Matter.

New ideas rooted in topology have recently had a major impact on condensed matter physics, and have led to new connections with high energy physics, mathematics and quantum information theory.  The aim of this program will be to deepen these connections and spark new progress by fostering discussion and new collaborations within and across disciplines.

Topics include i) the classification of topological states  ii) topological orders in two and three dimensions including quantum spin liquids, quantum Hall states and fracton phases and iii)  interplay of symmetry and topology in quantum many body systems, including symmetry protected topological phases, symmetry fractionalization and anomalies iv) topological phenomena in quantum systems  driven far from equlibrium v) quantum field theory approaches to topological matter.

This workshop is part of the CMSA’s program on Program on Topological Aspects of Condensed Matter, and is the second of two workshops, in addition to a visitor program and seminars.

The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.

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Organizers: Michael Hermele (CU Boulder) and Ashvin Vishwanath (Harvard)

Partial list of speakers:

• Nima Arkani-Hamed, IAS
• Jennifer Cano, Stony Brook
• Meng Cheng, Yale
• Lukasz Fidkowski, UW Seattle
• Daniel Freed, Texas
• Jeongwan Haah, Microsoft Research
• Anton Kapustin, Caltech
• Zohar Komargodski, SCGP/Stony Brook
• John McGreevy, UC San Diego
• Prineha Narang, Harvard
• Ying Ran, Boston College
• Shinsei Ryu, Chicago
• Cumrun Vafa, Harvard
• Chong Wang, Perimeter
• Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Station Q

Videos of the lectures can be found in the Youtube playlist below. Links to talks are also available on the schedule below.

As part of the program on Mathematical Biology a workshop on Invariance and Geometry in Sensation, Action and Cognition will take place on April 15-17, 2019.

Legend has it that above the door to Plato’s Academy was inscribed “Μηδείς άγεωµέτρητος είσίτω µον τήν στέγην”, translated as “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter my doors”. While geometry and invariance has always been a cornerstone of mathematics, it has traditionally not been an important part of biology, except in the context of aspects of structural biology. The premise of this meeting is a tantalizing sense that geometry and invariance are also likely to be important in (neuro)biology and cognition. Since all organisms interact with the physical world, this implies that as neural systems extract information using the senses to guide action in the world, they need appropriately invariant representations that are stable, reproducible and capable of being learned. These invariances are a function of the nature and type of signal, its corruption via noise, and the method of storage and use.

This hypothesis suggests many puzzles and questions: What representational geometries are reflected in the brain? Are they learned or innate? What happens to the invariances under realistic assumptions about noise, nonlinearity and finite computational resources? Can cases of mental disorders and consequences of brain damage be characterized as break downs in representational invariances? Can we harness these invariances and sensory contingencies to build more intelligent machines? The aim is to revisit these old neuro-cognitive problems using a series of modern lenses experimentally, theoretically and computationally, with some tutorials on how the mathematics and engineering of invariant representations in machines and algorithms might serve as useful null models.

In addition to talks, there will be a set of tutorial talks on the mathematical description of invariance (P.J. Olver), the computer vision aspects of invariant algorithms (S. Soatto), and the neuroscientific and cognitive aspects of invariance (TBA). The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. This workshop is organized by L. Mahadevan (Harvard), Talia Konkle (Harvard), Samuel Gershman (Harvard), and Vivek Jayaraman (HHMI).

For a list of lodging options convenient to the Center, please visit our recommended lodgings page.

List of registrants

Videos

Tentative Speaker List:

• Alessandro Achille, UCLA
• Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
• Jeannette Bohg, Stanford
• Ed Connor, Johns Hopkins
• Moira Dillon, NYU
• Jacob Feldman, Rutgers
• Ila Fiete, MIT
• Sam Gershman, Harvard
• Gily Ginosar, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Lucia Jacobs, UC Berkeley
• Vivek Jayaraman, HHMI
• Talia Konkle, Harvard
• L. Mahadevan, Harvard
• Michael McCloskey, Johns Hopkins
• Sam Ocko, Stanford
• Peter Olver, University of Minnesota
• Anitha Pasupathy, University of Washington
• Sandro Romani, Janelia
• Stefano Soatto, UCLA
• Tatyana Sharpee,  Salk Institute
• Dagmar Sternad, Northeastern
• Elizabeth Torres, Rutgers

Schedule:

Monday, April 15

Tuesday, April 16

Wednesday, April 17

The 2017 Charles River Lectures

Jointly organized by Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Microsoft Research New England, the Charles River Lectures on Probability and Related Topics is a one-day event for the benefit of the greater Boston area mathematics community.

The 2017 lectures will take place 9:15am – 5:30pm on Monday, October 2 at Harvard University  in the Harvard Science Center.

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Monday, October 2, 2017

9:15 AM – 5:30 PM

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Speakers:

• Paul Bourgade (Courant Institute, NYU)
• Massimiliano Gubinelli (University of Bonn)
• Andrea Montanari (Stanford University)
• Roman Vershynin (University of California, Irvine)
• Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann Institute)

Agenda:

In Harvard Science Center Hall C:

8:45 am – 9:15 am: Coffee/light breakfast

9:15 am – 10:15 am: Ofer Zeitouni

Title: Noise stability of the spectrum of large matrices

Abstract: The spectrum of large non-normal matrices is notoriously sensitive to perturbations, as the example of nilpotent matrices shows. Remarkably, the spectrum of these matrices perturbed by polynomially (in the dimension) vanishing additive noise is remarkably stable. I will describe some results and the beginning of a theory.

10:20 am – 11:20 am: Andrea Montanari

Title: Algorithms for estimating low-rank matrices 

Abstract: Many interesting problems in statistics can be formulated as follows. The signal of interest is a large low-rank matrix with additional structure, and we are given a single noisy view of this matrix. We would like to estimate the low rank signal by taking into account optimally the signal structure. I will discuss two types of efficient estimation procedures based on message-passing algorithms and semidefinite programming relaxations, with an emphasis on asymptotically exact results.

11:20 am – 11:45 am: Break

11:45 am – 12:45 pm: Paul Bourgade

Title: Random matrices, the Riemann zeta function and trees

Abstract: Fyodorov, Hiary & Keating have conjectured that the maximum of the characteristic polynomial of random unitary matrices behaves like extremes of log-correlated Gaussian fields. This allowed them to predict the typical size of local maxima of the Riemann zeta function along the critical axis. I will first explain the origins of this conjecture, and then outline the proof for the leading order of the maximum, for unitary matrices and the zeta function. This talk is based on joint works with Arguin, Belius, Radziwill and Soundararajan.

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Lunch

In Harvard Science Center Hall E:

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm: Roman Vershynin

Title: Deviations of random matrices and applications

Abstract: Uniform laws of large numbers provide theoretical foundations for statistical learning theory. This lecture will focus on quantitative uniform laws of large numbers for random matrices. A range of illustrations will be given in high dimensional geometry and data science.

3:45 pm – 4:15 pm: Break

4:15 pm – 5:15 pm: Massimiliano Gubinelli

Title: Weak universality and Singular SPDEs

Abstract: Mesoscopic fluctuations of microscopic (discrete or continuous) dynamics can be described in terms of nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations which are universal: they depend on very few details of the microscopic model. This universality comes at a price: due to the extreme irregular nature of the random field sample paths, these equations turn out to not be well-posed in any classical analytic sense. I will review recent progress in the mathematical understanding of such singular equations and of their (weak) universality and their relation with the Wilsonian renormalisation group framework of theoretical physics.

Poster:

2017 Charles River Lectures Poster

Organizers:

 Alexei Borodin, Henry Cohn, Vadim Gorin, Elchanan Mossel, Philippe Rigollet, Scott Sheffield, and H.T. Yau

On August 27-28, 2018, the CMSA will be hosting a Kickoff workshop on Topology and Quantum Phases of Matter. New ideas rooted in topology have recently had a big impact on condensed matter physics, and have highlighted new connections with high energy physics, mathematics and quantum information theory. Additionally, these ideas have found applications in the design of photonic systems and of materials with novel mechanical properties. The aim of this program will be to deepen these connections by fostering discussion and seeding new collaborations within and across disciplines.

This workshop is a part of the CMSA’s program on Program on Topological Aspects of Condensed Matter,  and will be the first of two workshops, in addition to a visitor program and seminars.

The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.

Please register here

Speakers: 

• Zhen Bi, MIT
• Meng Cheng, Yale
• Dima Feldman, Brown
• Dominic Else, UCSB
• Liang Fu, MIT
• Fabian Grusdt, Harvard
• Ying Fei Gu, Harvard
• Bert Halperin, Harvard
• Anton Kapustin, Caltech
• Patrick Lee, MIT
• L. Mahadevan, Harvard
• Brad Marston, Brown
• Max Metlitski, MIT
• Emil V. Prodan, Yeshiva
• Achim Rosch, University of Cologne
• Mathias Scheurer, Harvard
• Marin Soljacic, MIT
• X. G. Wen, MIT
• Cenke Xu, UCSB
• Frank Zhang, Cornell

From February 25 to March 1, the CMSA will be hosting a workshop on Growth and zero sets of eigenfunctions and of solutions to elliptic partial differential equations. 

Key participants of this workshop include David Jerison (MIT), Alexander Logunov (IAS), and Eugenia Malinnikova (IAS).  This workshop will have morning sessions on Monday-Friday of this week from 9:30-11:30am, and afternoon sessions on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 3:00-5:00pm.
The sessions will be held in  \(G02\) (downstairs) at 20 Garden, except for Tuesday afternoon, when the talk will be in \(G10\).

The seminar for evolution equations, hyperbolic equations, and fluid dynamics will be held on Thursdays from 9:50am to 10:50am with time for questions afterwards in CMSA Building, 20 Garden Street, Room G10. The tentative schedule of speakers is below. Titles for the talks will be added as they are received.

The seminar on geometric analysis will be held on Tuesdays from 9:50am to 10:50am with time for questions afterwards in CMSA Building, 20 Garden Street, Room G10. The tentative schedule can be found below. Titles will be added as they are provided.

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