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Speaker:Title: Mirror symmetry, gauged linear sigma models, matrix factorizations, and related topicsVenue: CMSA Room G10On March 4-6, 2020 the CMSA will be hosting a three-day workshop on Mirror symmetry, Gauged linear sigma models, Matrix factorizations, and related topics as part of the Simons Collaboration on Homological Mirror Symmetry. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Speakers: Andrei Căldăraru, University of Wisconsin David Favero, University of Alberta Elana Kalashnikov, Harvard University Tsung-Ju Lee, CMSA Conan Leung, CUHK David Morrison, University of California, Santa Barbara Mauricio Romo, YMSC Yun Shi, CMSA Mark Shoemaker, Colorado State University Rachel Webb, University of Michigan Chris Woodward, Rutgers University Guangbo Xu, Texas A&M University Chenglong Yu, University of Pennsylvania Schedule Videos from the workshop are available in the Youtube playlist. |
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Speaker:Title: Quantum Matter WorkshopVenue: CMSA Room G10On December 2-4, 2019 the CMSA will be hosting a workshop on Quantum Matter as part of our program on Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Pictures can be found here. Organizers: Juven Wang (CMSA), Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT), and Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard) Confirmed Speakers: Zhen Bi, MIT | Video Claudio Chamon, BU | Video Trithep Devakul, Princeton | Video Anushya Chandran, BU Liang Fu, MIT Andrey Gromov, Brown | Video Daniel Louis Jafferis, Harvard | Video Eslam Khalaf, Harvard | Video Hong Liu, MIT Shang Liu, Harvard | Video Emil Prodan, Yeshiva | Video Subir Sachdev, Harvard | Video Dries Sels, Harvard | Video Yuya Tanizaki, NCSU | Video Senthil Todadri, MIT | Video Juven… |
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Speaker: Svetlana JitomirskayaTitle: Current Developments in Mathematics 2019Venue: VirtualFriday, Nov. 22, 2019 1:30 pm – 5:20 pm Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center, Hall C Speakers: · Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine) · Subash Khot (NYU) · Jun Li (Stanford) · André Neves (Chicago) · Geordie Williamson (U Sidney) Free and open to the public – registration is required. Please register in advance online at www.math.harvard.edu/cdm |
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Speaker: David AndersonTitle: Workshop on Dynamics, Randomness, and Control in Molecular and Cellular NetworksVenue: VirtualOn November 12-14, 2019 the CMSA will be hosting a workshop on Dynamics, Randomness, and Control in Molecular and Cellular Networks. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Biological cells are the fundamental units of life, and predictive modeling of cellular dynamics is essential for understanding a myriad of biological processes and functions. Rapid advances in technologies have made it possible for biologists to measure many variables and outputs from complex molecular and cellular networks with various inputs and environmental conditions. However, such advances are far ahead of the development of mathematical theory, models and methods needed to secure a deep understanding of how high-level robust behaviors emerge from the… |
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Speaker: Heidi Rehm, Ph.D.Title: Learning from health data in the million genome eraVenue: VirtualOn November 1, 2019 the CMSA will be hosting a conference organized by Seven Bridges Genomics. 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. Projects currently underway around the world are collecting detailed health and genomic data from millions of volunteers. In parallel, numerous healthcare systems have announced commitments to integrate genomic data into the standard of care for select patients. These data have the potential to reveal transformative insights into health and disease. However, to realize this promise, novel approaches are required across the full life cycle of data analysis. This symposium will include discussion of advanced… |
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Speaker:Title: Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics Master Class WorkshopVenue: VirtualAs part of the program on Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics, Total Positivity and Motives, the CMSA will host a “Master Class Workshop” on October 28-30, 2019. Each day of the workshop will feature an intensive full day of pedagogical lectures, with the aim of bringing actively interested but non-expert physicists and mathematicians up to speed on the featured topics. Everyone is welcome to attend the lectures. The master class 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. Photos of the event Organizers: Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) Lauren Williams (Harvard) | Slides 1 | Slides 2 | Slides 3 Alex Postnikov (MIT) Thomas Lam (Michigan) |
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Speaker:Title: 2019 Ding Shum LectureVenue: VirtualOn October 22, 2019, the CMSA will be hosting our third annual Ding Shum lecture. This year’s lecture will be a talk on “Election Security” by Ronald L. Rivest (MIT). The lecture will take place from 4:30-5:30pm in Science Center, Hall A. Ronald L. Rivest is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and a founder of the Cryptography and Information Security research group within CSAIL. His research has been in the areas of algorithms, machine learning, cryptography, and election security, for which he has received multiple awards, including: the ACM Turing Award (with Adleman and Shamir), the BBVA Frontiers… |
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Speaker: Jason AltschulerTitle: Noncommutative Analysis, Computational Complexity, and Quantum InformationVenue: VirtualOn October 16-18, 2019 the CMSA will be hosting a workshop on Noncommutative Analysis, Computational Complexity, and Quantum Information. This workshop will focus on linking three different rapidly developing areas: noncommutative real algebraic geometry (RAG), theory of computation and quantum information theory. This mix of overlapping but independently developing topics should lead to a stimulating flow of tools and important problems into several disciplines. Given the different communities there will be an emphasis on tutorials and making the lectures broadly understandable. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. This workshop is organized by Boaz Barak, Bill Helton, Pablo Parrilo, Tselil Schramm. Please register here Speakers: Jason Altschuler, MIT | Video Boaz Barak, Harvard | Video Ankit Garg, Microsoft Research… |
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Speaker: Nima Arkani-HamedTitle: Topology and Dynamics in Quantum Matter WorkshopVenue: VirtualOn 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)… |
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Speaker: Sarah Adel BargalTitle: Workshop on Foundations of Computational ScienceVenue: VirtualOn 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… |
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Speaker: Rediet Abebe (Cornell), Pablo Azar (MIT), Jorn Boehnke (UC Davis), Sarah Brown (Brown), Abeer Elbahrawy (Alan Turing Institute), Charles Epstein (AMCS), David Gamarnik (MIT), Anna Gilbert (Michigan), Andrew Lo (MIT), Xiaole Shirley Liu (Dana Farber Cancer Institute), Joe Kileel (Princeton), Tymofiy Mylovanov (U Pittsburgh), Elaine O. Nsoesie (Boston University), Aaron Roth (UPenn), Amit Singer (Princeton), Zhiping Weng (UMass Medical School), David Yang (Harvard)Title: 2019 Big Data ConferenceVenue: Harvard Science CenterOn 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. |
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Speaker:Title: Conference on Differential Geometry, Calabi-Yau theory and General Relativity: A conference in honor of the 70th Birthday of Shing-Tung YauVenue: Harvard Science CenterOn May 2-5, 2019 the Harvard Mathematics Department hosted a Conference on Differential Geometry, Calabi-Yau Theory and General Relativity: A conference in honor of the 70th Birthday of Shing-Tung Yau. The conference was held in the Science Center, Lecture Hall C. Organizers: Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard) Wilfried Schmid (Harvard) Clifford Taubes (Harvard) Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) Speakers: Lydia Bieri, University of Michigan Tristan Collins, MIT Simon Donaldson, Imperial College Fan Chung Graham, UC San Diego Nigel Hitchin, Oxford University Jun Li, Stanford University Kefeng Liu, UCLA Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Columbia University Alina Marian, Northeastern University Xenia de la Ossa, Oxford University Duong H. Phong, Columbia University Richard Schoen, UC Irvine Andrew Strominger, Harvard University Nike Sun, MIT Clifford Taubes, Harvard University Chuu-Lian Terng, UC Irvine Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern University Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University Mu Tao Wang, Columbia… |
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Speaker:Title: Conference on Algebraic Geometry, Representation theory and Mathematical PhysicsVenue: VirtualFrom April 29 to May 1, 2019 the CMSA will be hosting a Conference on Algebraic Geometry, Representation theory and Mathematical Physics. This workshop is organized by Bong Lian (Brandeis) and Artan Sheshmani (CMSA) . 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. List of registrants Videos Speakers: Dan Abramovich, Brown Roman Bezrukavnikov, MIT Fedor Bogomolov, NYU Qile Chen, Boston College Dawei Chen, Boston College Alexander Efimov, Moscow Pavel Etingof, MIT Maksym Fedorchuk, Boston College Dennis Gaitsgory, Harvard Amin Gholampour, Maryland Brendan Hassett, Brown Ludmil Katzarkov, Miami & Moscow Si Li, Tsinghua Andrei Negut, MIT Yuri Tschinkel, NYU… |
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Speaker:Title: Yip Annual LectureVenue: Harvard Science CenterOn April 18, 2019 Harvard CMSA hosted the inaugural Yip lecture. The Yip Lecture takes place thanks to the support of Dr. Shing-Yiu Yip. This year’s speaker was Peter Galison (Harvard Physics). The lecture was held from 4:00-5:00pm in Science Center, Hall A. Credit:Bronzwaer/Davelaar/Moscibrodzka/Falcke/Radboud University |
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Speaker:Title: Workshop on Invariance and Geometry in Sensation, Action and CognitionVenue: VirtualAs 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… |
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Speaker: Mina AganagicTitle: Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott: Mina AganagicVenue: Harvard Science CenterOn April 9 and 10, 2019 the CMSA hosted two lectures by Mina Aganagic (UC Berkeley). This was the second annual Math Science Lecture Series held in honor of Raoul Bott. The lectures took place in Science Center, Hall C “Two math lessons from string theory” Lecture 1: April 9, 2019 Title: “Lesson on Integrability” Abstract: The quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov (qKZ) equation is a difference generalization of the famous Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov (KZ) equation. The problem to explicitly capture the monodromy of the qKZ equation has been open for over 25 years. I will describe the solution to this problem, discovered jointly with Andrei Okounkov. The solution comes from the geometry of Nakajima quiver varieties and has a string theory… |
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Speaker: Joan BrunaTitle: Machine Learning for Multiscale Model Reduction WorkshopVenue: VirtualThe 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,… |
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Speaker: Dylan AllegrettiTitle: Workshop on Mirror Symmetry and StabilityVenue: VirtualThis three-day workshop will take place at Harvard University on March 18-20, 2019 in Science Center room 507. The main topic will be stability conditions in homological mirror symmetry. This workshop is funded by the Simons Collaboration in Homological Mirror Symmetry. Organizers: Denis Auroux, Yu-Wei Fan, Hansol Hong, Siu-Cheong Lau, Bong Lian, Shing-Tung Yau, Jingyu Zhao Speakers: Dylan Allegretti (Sheffield) Tristan Collins (MIT) Naoki Koseki (Tokyo) Chunyi Li (Warwick) Jason Lo (CSU Northridge) Emanuele Macrì (NEU & IHES) Genki Ouchi (Riken iTHEMS) Pranav Pandit (ICTS) Laura Pertusi (Edinburgh) Jacopo Stoppa (SISSA) Alex Takeda (UC Berkeley) Xiaolei Zhao (UC Santa Barbara) More details will be added later. Visit the event page for more information. |
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Speaker:Title: Growth and zero sets of eigenfunctions and of solutions to elliptic partial differential equationsVenue: VirtualFrom 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. |
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Speaker: Sarah Adel BargalTitle: Geometric Analysis Approach to AI WorkshopVenue: VirtualDue 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…. |