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Speaker:Title: Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes ProgramVenue: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Program To receive email updates and program announcements, visit this link to sign up for the CMSA Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes Program mailing list. Dates: April 15 – May 24, 2024 Location: Harvard CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Organizers: Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) Marcus Spradlin (Brown University) Andrew Strominger (Harvard University) Anastasia Volovich (Brown University) Lauren Williams (Harvard University) Participants: Michael Borinsky, ETH Zurich Jacob Bourjaily, Pennsylvania State University Ruth Britto, Trinity College Jordan Cotler, Harvard University Lance Dixon, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center James Drummond, University of Southampton Henriette Elvang, University of Michigan Chaim Even-Zohar, Technion Livia Ferro, University of Hertfordshire Carolina Figueiredo, Princeton University Hadleigh Frost, Oxford University Bruno Gimenez, University… |
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Speaker: Maggie MillerTitle: Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott: Maggie Miller: Fibered ribbon knots vs. major 4D conjecturesVenue: Harvard Science CenterFibered ribbon knots vs. major 4D conjectures Location: Harvard University Science Center Hall A & via Zoom webinar Dates: Feb 20 & 22, 2024 Time: 4:00-5:30 pm Directions and Recommended Lodging Registration is required. In-person registration: Harvard Science Center Zoom Webinar registration Maggie Miller is an assistant professor in the mathematics department at the University of Texas at Austin and a Clay Research Fellow. This will be the fourth annual Math Science Lecture Series held in Honor of Raoul Bott. Talk topic: Fibered ribbon knots vs. major 4D conjectures Feb. 20, 2024 Title: Fibered ribbon knots and the Poincaré conjecture Abstract: A knot is “fibered” if its complement in S^3 is the total space of a bundle over the circle, and… |
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Speaker:Title: Arithmetic Quantum Field Theory ProgramVenue: CMSA Room G10Arithmetic Quantum Field Theory Program To receive email updates and program announcements, visit this link to sign up for the CMSA Arithmetic Quantum Field Theory Program mailing list. Dates: Feb. 5–Mar. 29, 2024 Location: Harvard CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Directions to CMSA Organizers: David Ben-Zvi (University of Texas Austin) Solomon Friedberg (Boston College) Natalie Paquette (University of Washington Seattle) Brian Williams (Boston University) This program will feature a weekly seminar series, workshops, and a conference. The object of the program is to develop and disseminate exciting new connections emerging between quantum field theory and algebraic number theory, and in particular between the fundamental invariants of each: partition functions and L-functions. On one hand, there has… |
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Speaker:Title: CMSA/MATH Bi-Annual GatheringVenue: Common Room, CMSAOn Friday, Jan. 26, 2024 the CMSA will host the CMSA/MATH Bi-Annual Gathering for Harvard CMSA and Math affiliates in the CMSA Common Room at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138. |
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Speaker: Scott KominersTitle: CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Scott KominersVenue: virtualCMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Prof. Scott Kominers will present a lecture in the CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Series. Date: Monday, November 20, 2023 Time: 9:00 – 10:30 am ET Location: Via Zoom Webinar Registration is required. Register here to attend virtually: Zoom Webinar Registration Title: 60 Years of Matching: From Gale and Shapley to Trading Networks Abstract: Gale and Shapley’s 1962 American Mathematical Monthly paper, “College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage,” is by now one of the most cited articles in the journal’s history, having served as the foundation for an entire branch of the field of market design. This success owes in large part to the beautiful, applicable, and surprisingly general theory of matching mechanisms uncovered in Gale and Shapley’s… |
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Speaker:Title: Mathematics in Science: Perspectives and ProspectsVenue: Harvard Science CenterMathematics in Science: Perspectives and ProspectsA showcase of mathematics in interaction with physics, computer science, biology, and beyond. October 27–28, 2023 Location: Harvard University Science Center Hall D & via Zoom. Directions and Recommended Lodging Format: This conference will be held in hybrid format, both in person and via Zoom Webinar. Youtube Playlist Speakers Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) Constantinos Daskalakis (MIT) Alison Etheridge (Oxford) Mike Freedman (Harvard CMSA) Greg Moore (Rutgers) Bernd Sturmfels (MPI Leipzig) Organizers Michael R. Douglas (Harvard CMSA) Dan Freed (Harvard Math & CMSA) Mike Hopkins (Harvard Math) Cumrun Vafa (Harvard Physics) Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard Math) Schedule Friday, October 27, 2023 2:00–3:15 pm Greg Moore (Rutgers) Title: Remarks on Physical Mathematics Abstract: I will describe some examples of the… |
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Speaker:Title: CMSA/Math Fall GatheringVenue: Common Room, CMSAFriday, Sep 22, 2022 4:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited. |
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Speaker:Title: Big Data Conference 2023Venue: Harvard Science CenterOn August 31-Sep 1, 2023 the CMSA will host the ninth annual Conference on Big Data. The Big Data Conference features 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. Location: Harvard University Science Center Hall D & via Zoom. Directions and Recommended Lodging Format: This conference will be held in hybrid format, both in person and via Zoom Webinar. Registration is required. Note: In-person registration is at capacity. Please sign up for the Zoom Webinar (registration link). Speakers: Jacob Andreas, MIT Morgane Austern, Harvard Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern Rachel Cummings, Columbia Melissa Dell, Harvard Jianqing Fan, Princeton Tommi Jaakkola, MIT Ankur Moitra,… |
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Speaker:Title: GRAMSIA: Graphical Models, Statistical Inference, and AlgorithmsVenue: CMSA Room G10On May 16 – May 19, 2023 the CMSA hosted a four-day workshop on GRAMSIA: Graphical Models, Statistical Inference, and Algorithms. The workshop was held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. This workshop was organized by David Gamarnik (MIT), Kavita Ramanan (Brown), and Prasad Tetali (Carnegie Mellon). The purpose of this workshop is to highlight various mathematical questions and issues associated with graphical models and message-passing algorithms, and to bring together a group of researchers for discussion of the latest progress and challenges ahead. In addition to the substantial impact of graphical models on applied areas, they are also connected to various branches of the mathematical sciences. Rather than focusing on… |
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Speaker:Title: Workshop on Global Categorical SymmetriesVenue: CMSA Room G10The CMSA will be hosting a Workshop on Global Categorical Symmetries from May 7 – 12, 2023 Participation in the workshop is by invitation. Public Lectures There will be three lectures on Thursday, May 11, 2023, which are open to the public. Location: Room G-10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Note: The public lectures will be held in-person only. 2:00 – 2:50 pm Speaker: Kantaro Ohmori (U Tokyo ) Title: Fusion Surface Models: 2+1d Lattice Models from Higher Categories Abstract: Generalized symmetry in general dimensions is expected to be described by higher categories. Conversely, one might expect that, given a higher category with appropriate structures, there exist models that admit the category as its symmetry. In this talk I will explain a construction… |
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Speaker:Title: CMSA/MATH Bi-Annual GatheringVenue: Common Room, CMSAOn Friday, March 24th, 4:30PM – 6PM, the CMSA will host the CMSA/MATH Bi-Annual Gathering for Harvard CMSA and Math affiliates in the Common Room at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138. |
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Speaker: Cynthia DworkTitle: 2023 Ding Shum LectureVenue: Harvard Science CenterOn March 21, 2023, the CMSA will host the fourth annual Ding Shum Lecture, given by Cynthia Dwork (Harvard SEAS and Microsoft Research). Time: 5:00-6:00 pm ET Location: Harvard University Science Center Hall D This event will be held in person and via Zoom webinar. Registration is required. In-person registration (link) Zoom Webinar registration (link) Title: Measuring Our Chances: Risk Prediction in This World and its Betters Abstract: Prediction algorithms score individuals, assigning a number between zero and one that is often interpreted as an individual probability: a 0.7 “chance” that this child is in danger in the home; an 80% “probability” that this woman will succeed if hired; a 1/3 “likelihood” that they will graduate within 4 years of admission. But what do words… |
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Speaker:Title: Conference on Geometry and StatisticsVenue: CMSA Room G10On Feb 27-March 1, 2023 the CMSA will host a Conference on Geometry and Statistics. Location: G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 This conference will be held in person. Directions and Recommended Lodging Registration is required. Register here to attend in-person. Organizing Committee: Stephan Huckemann (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Ezra Miller (Duke University) Zhigang Yao (Harvard CMSA and Committee Chair) Scientific Advisors: Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard CMSA) Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard CMSA) Speakers: Tamara Broderick (MIT) David Donoho (Stanford) Ian Dryden (Florida International University in Miami) David Dunson (Duke) Charles Fefferman (Princeton) Stefanie Jegelka (MIT) Sebastian Kurtek (OSU) Lizhen Lin (Notre Dame) Steve Marron (U North Carolina) Ezra Miller (Duke) Hans-Georg Mueller (UC Davis) Nicolai Reshetikhin (UC Berkeley) Wolfgang Polonik… |
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Speaker: Nazim BouattaTitle: Special Lectures on Machine Learning and Protein FoldingVenue: CMSA Room G10The CMSA will host a series of three 90-minute lectures on the subject of machine learning for protein folding. Thursday Feb. 9, Thursday Feb. 16, & Thursday March 9, 2023, 3:30-5:00 pm ET Location: G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Directions and Recommended Lodging These special lectures will be hybrid: they will be both in-person and online. Registration is required. In-person registration Zoom webinar registration form: Zoom Webinar. Speaker: Nazim Bouatta, Harvard Medical School Abstract: AlphaFold2, a neural network-based model which predicts protein structures from amino acid sequences, is revolutionizing the field of structural biology. This lecture series, given by a leader of the OpenFold project which created an open-source version of AlphaFold2, will explain the… |
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Speaker: Andrew StromingerTitle: Third Annual Yip LectureVenue: Harvard Science CenterAndrew Strominger will give the Third Annual Yip Lecture on February 2, 2023. Time: 7:00-8:00 pm ET Location: Harvard Science Center Hall A Registration is required. In-person Registration Zoom Webinar Registration Title: Black Holes: The Most Mysterious Objects in the Universe Abstract: In the last decade black holes have come to center stage in both theoretical and observational science. Theoretically, they were shown a half-century ago by Stephen Hawking and others to obey a precise but still-mysterious set of laws which imply they are paradoxically both the simplest and most complex objects in the universe. Compelling progress on this paradox has occurred recently. Observationally, they have finally and dramatically been seen in the sky, including at LIGO and… |
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Speaker:Title: Representation Theory, Calabi–Yau Manifolds, and Mirror SymmetryVenue: CMSA Room G10Videos are available on the CMSA Youtube Playlist. On November 28 – Dec 1, 2022, the CMSA hosted a Workshop on Representation Theory, Calabi-Yau Manifolds, and Mirror Symmetry. Organizers: An Huang (Brandeis University) | Siu-Cheong Lau (Boston University) | Tsung-Ju Lee (CMSA, Harvard) | Andrew Linshaw (University of Denver) Scientific Advisor: Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard, Tsinghua) Location: Room G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Directions and Recommended Lodging The conference was held in hybrid format, both in-person and online. The workshop was partially supported by Simons and NSF Grant DMS-2227199. Speakers: Tomoyuki Arakawa (Kyoto) Thomas Creutzig (Edmonton) Jonathan Mboyo Esole (Northeastern) Fei Han (National University of Singapore) Shinobu Hosono (Gakushuin University) Flor Orosz Hunziker (Colorado) Cuipo Jiang… |
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Speaker: Hugh WoodinTitle: CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Large cardinals and small sets: The AD+ Duality ProgramVenue: CMSA Room G10CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Prof. Hugh Woodin will present a lecture in the CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Series. Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 Time: 9:30 – 11:00 am ET Location: Via Zoom Webinar and Room G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Directions and Recommended Lodging Registration is required. Register here to attend virtually: Zoom Webinar Registration Register here to attend in-person: In-Person Registration Title: Large cardinals and small sets: The AD+ Duality Program Abstract: The determinacy axiom, AD, was introduced by Mycielski and Steinhaus over 60 years ago as an alternative to the Axiom of Choice for the study of arbitrary sets of real numbers. The modern view is that determinacy axioms concern generalizations of the… |
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Speaker:Title: CMSA/MATH Fall GatheringVenue: Harvard Science CenterCMSA/MATH Fall Gathering Friday, Sep 23, 2022 4:30–6:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited. |
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Speaker: Xiaohong Chen (Yale), Miles Cranmer (Princeton) Jessica Jeffers (U Chicago), Dan Roberts (MIT)Title: Big Data Conference 2022Venue: virtualOn August 26, 2022 the CMSA hosted our eighth annual Conference on Big Data. The Big Data Conference features 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 2022 Big Data Conference took place virtually on Zoom. Organizers: Scott Duke Kominers, MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor, Harvard Business Horng-Tzer Yau, Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University Sergiy Verstyuk, CMSA, Harvard University Speakers: Xiaohong Chen, Yale Miles Cranmer, Princeton Jessica Jeffers, University of Chicago Dan Roberts, MIT Schedule 9:00 am Conference Organizers Introduction and Welcome 9:10 am – 9:55 am Xiaohong Chen Title: On ANN optimal estimation and inference for policy… |
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Speaker:Title: Phase Transitions and Topological Defects in the Early UniverseVenue: CMSA Room G10On August 2–5, the CMSA hosted a workshop on Phase Transitions and Topological Defects in the Early Universe. The workshop was held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA and online via Zoom webinar. The next decade will see a wealth of new cosmological data, which can lead to new insights into fundamental physics. Upcoming facilities (such as LISA) will be able to probe signals of fascinating phenomena in the early universe. These include signals from “Phase Transitions and Topological Defects,” which are ubiquitously given rise to in well-motivated UV models. In-depth studies of such signals requires cross-talks between experts from a wide spectrum of fields. The workshop aims to provide a platform for efficient exchange of… |