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Speaker: Arkhat AbzhanovTitle: Morphogenesis: Geometry and PhysicsVenue: VirtualJust 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… |
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Speaker:Title: Current Developments In Mathematics 2018Venue: VirtualCurrent Developments in Mathematics 2018 Conference. Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 2:15 pm – 6:00 pm Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center, Hall B Visit the conference page here |
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Speaker:Title: 2018 Ding Shum LectureVenue: VirtualOn October 24, 2018, the CMSA will be hosting our second annual Ding Shum lecture. This event was made possible by the generous funding of Ding Lei and Harry Shum. Last year featured Leslie Valiant, who spoke on “learning as a Theory of Everything.” This year will feature Eric Maskin, who will speak on “How to Improve Presidential Elections: the Mathematics of Voting.” This lecture will take place from 5:00-6:00pm in Science Center, Hall D. Pictures of the event can be found here. |
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Speaker: Arkhat AbzhanovTitle: Workshop on Morphometrics, Morphogenesis and MathematicsVenue: VirtualIn 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… |
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Speaker: Mirjam CveticTitle: F-Theory ConferenceVenue: VirtualThe 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 |
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Speaker: Zhen BiTitle: Kickoff Workshop on Topology and Quantum Phases of MatterVenue: VirtualOn 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… |
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Speaker: 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)Title: Big Data Conference 2018Venue: Harvard Science CenterOn 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… |
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Speaker: Jayant ShahTitle: From Algebraic Geometry to Vision and AI: A Symposium Celebrating the Mathematical Work of David MumfordVenue: VirtualOn 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:… |
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Speaker:Title: Quantum Information WorkshopVenue: VirtualPlease note, this workshop has been postponed to a later date. Details will be posted to this page when they are available. The CMSA will host a workshop on Quantum Information. This workshop will be held virtually using Zoom. The workshop on Quantum information is organized by Mikhail Lukin, Horng-Tzer Yau, and Norman Yao. More information to follow. |
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Speaker:Title: Quantum Matter WorkshopVenue: VirtualPlease note: this workshop has been postponed to a later date. Details will be posted to this page when they are available. Throughout the summer, scheduled speakers for the Quantum Matter Workshop will give talks on Zoom for the Quantum Matter/Condensed Matter seminar. The CMSA will be hosting our second workshop on Quantum Matter. Both of these workshops are part of our program on Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics. The first workshop took place in December 2019, and was extremely successful, attracting participants worldwide. Learn more about the first workshop here. Organizers: Du Pei, Ryan Thorngren, Juven Wang, Yifan Wang, and Shing-Tung Yau. Speakers: Xiao Chen, Rutgers University Bert Halperin, Harvard Physics Daniel Harlow, MIT Michael Hopkins, Harvard Math… |
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Speaker:Title: Cosmic Road to New PhysicsVenue: VirtualThe CMSA will host a 3-day workshop on cosmological signatures of fundamental physics. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. The next decade will see a wealth of new cosmological data, which can lead to new insights for fundamental physics. This upcoming data will span the entire history of the cosmos, from the era prior to big-bang nucleosynthesis to the inner Galactic structure today, including the intervening eras of recombination and cosmic dawn. Often, beyond-standard-model (BSM) physics will leave imprints in more than one of these eras. Thus, it is timely to gather experts in BSM physics across the entire cosmic history to exchange ideas and develop joint and powerful… |
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Speaker: Noga Ron-ZewiTitle: Workshop on Coding and Information TheoryVenue: VirtualThe 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… |
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Speaker:Title: Simons Collaboration Workshop, April 5-7, 2018Venue: VirtualThe CMSA will be hosting a three-day Simons Collaboration Workshop on Homological Mirror Symmetry and Hodge Theory on April 5-7, 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. We may be able to provide some financial support for grad students and postdocs interested in this event. If you are interested in funding, please send a letter of support from your mentor to Hansol Hong at hansol84@gmail.com. Confirmed Speakers: Jacob Bourjaily (Niels Bohr Institute) Mandy Cheung (Havard University) Tristan Collins (Harvard University) Yoosik Kim (Boston University) Yu-Shen Lin (Harvard University) Cheuk-Yu Mak (Cambridge University) Yu Pan (MIT)… |
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Speaker: Freddy CachazoTitle: Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott: Freddy CachazoVenue: Harvard Science CenterOn April 2-3, the CMSA will be hosting two lectures by Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter Institute) on “Geometry and Combinatorics in Particle Interactions.” This will be the first of the new annual Bott Math Science Lecture Series hosted by the CMSA. The lectures will take place from 4:30-5:30pm in Science Center, Hall D. |
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Speaker: Stephen WongTitle: Workshop on Geometry, Imaging, and ComputingVenue: VirtualOn 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) |
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Speaker:Title: Fluid turbulence and Singularities of the Euler/ Navier Stokes equationsVenue: VirtualThe Workshop on Fluid turbulence and Singularities of the Euler/ Navier Stokes equations will take place on March 13-15, 2019. This is the first of two workshop organized by Michael Brenner, Shmuel Rubinstein, and Tom Hou. The second, Machine Learning for Multiscale Model Reduction, will take place on March 27-29, 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: Claude Bardos, University of Paris Jiajie Chen, Caltech Peter Constantin, Princeton Diego Cordoba, ICMAT Tarek Elgindi, UCSD Susumu Goto, Osaka Alexander Kiselev, Duke University Alain Pumir, ENS Lyon Shmuel Rubinstein,… |
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Speaker:Title: Workshop on Probabilistic and Extremal CombinatoricsVenue: VirtualThe 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…. |
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Speaker:Title: Blockchain ConferenceVenue: VirtualOn January 24-25, 2019 the Center of Mathematical Sciences will be hosting a conference on distributed-ledger (blockchain) technology. The conference is intended to cover a broad range of topics, from abstract mathematical aspects (cryptography, game theory, graph theory, theoretical computer science) to concrete applications (in accounting, government, economics, finance, management, medicine). The talks will take place in Science Center, Hall D. https://youtu.be/FyKCCutxMYo List of registrants Photos Speakers: Joseph Abadi, Princeton University Benedikt Bunz, Stanford University Jake Cacciapaglia, Nebula Genomics/Harvard Medical School Eduardo Castello, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alisa DiCaprio, R3 Zhiguo He, University of Chicago Steven Kou, Boston University Anne Lafarre, Tilburg University Jacob Leshno, University of Chicago Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School David Schwartz, Ripple Elaine Shi, Cornell University/Thunder Research Hong Wan, NCSU PDF… |
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Speaker:Title: Workshop on Algebraic Methods in CombinatoricsVenue: VirtualThe workshop on Algebraic Methods in Combinatorics will take place November 13-17, 2017 at the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. The main focus of the workshop is the application of algebraic method to study problems in combinatorics. In recent years there has been a large number of results in which the use of algebraic technique has resulted in significant improvements to long standing open problems. Such problems include the finite field Kakeya problem, the distinct distance problem of Erdos and, more recently, the cap-set problem. The workshop will include talks on all of the above mentioned problem as well as on recent development in related areas combining combinatorics and algebra. Participation: The workshop is… |
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Speaker:Title: Jennifer Chayes Public Talk, 11-02-17Venue: VirtualJennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research) will be giving a public talk on November 02, 2017,as part of the program on combinatorics and complexity hosted by the CMSA during AY17-18. The talk will be at 5:00pm in Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA. Title: Network Science: From the Online World to Cancer Genomics Abstract: Everywhere we turn these days, we find that networks can be used to describe relevant interactions. In the high tech world, we see the Internet, the World Wide Web, mobile phone networks, and a variety of online social networks. In economics, we are increasingly experiencing both the positive and negative effects of a global networked economy. In epidemiology, we find disease spreading over our ever growing social networks, complicated by mutation of… |