During 2023–24, the CMSA will host a seminar on New Technologies in Mathematics, organized by Michael Douglas. This seminar will take place on Wednesdays from 2:00 pm–3:00 pm (Eastern Time). The meetings will take place in Room G10 at the CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138, and some meetings will take place virtually on Zoom or be held in hybrid formats. To learn how to attend, please fill out this form, or contact Michael Douglas (mdouglas@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu). The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed. Seminar videos can be found at the CMSA Youtube site New Technologies in Mathematics Playlist

CMSA COVID-19 Policies



  • March 10, 2021 03:00 PM
Speaker:
Title: 3/10/2021 New Tech in Math
Venue: Virtual
  • March 03, 2021 03:00 PM
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Title: Neural Theorem Proving in Lean using Proof Artifact Co-training and Language Models
Venue: virtual

Speaker: Jason Rute, CIBO Technologies Title: Neural Theorem Proving in Lean using Proof Artifact Co-training and Language Models Abstract: Labeled data for imitation learning of theorem proving in large libraries of formalized mathematics is scarce as such libraries require years of concentrated effort by human specialists to be built. This is particularly challenging when applying large Transformer language models to tactic prediction, because the scaling of performance with respect to model size is quickly disrupted in the data-scarce, easily-overfitted regime. We propose PACT ({\bf P}roof {\bf A}rtifact {\bf C}o-{\bf T}raining), a general methodology for extracting abundant self-supervised data from kernel-level proof terms for co-training alongside the usual tactic prediction objective. We apply this methodology to Lean, an interactive proof…

  • February 24, 2021 03:00 PM
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Title: A Mathematical Language
Venue: Virtual

Speaker: Thomas Hales, Univ. of Pittsburgh Dept. of Mathematics Title: A Mathematical Language Abstract: A controlled natural language for mathematics is an artificial language that is designed in an explicit way with precise computer-readable syntax and semantics.  It is based on a single natural language (which for us is English) and can be broadly understood by mathematically literate English speakers.  This talk will describe the design of a controlled natural language for mathematics that has been influenced by the Lean theorem prover, by TeX, and by earlier controlled natural languages. The semantics are provided by dependent type theory.

  • January 27, 2021 03:00 PM
Speaker:
Title: 1/27/2021 New Tech in Math Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • January 26, 2021 03:00 PM
Speaker:
Title: 2/10/2021 New Tech in Math
Venue: Virtual
  • January 20, 2021 03:00 PM
Speaker:
Title: 1/20/2021 New Tech in Math
Venue: virtual
  • January 13, 2021 03:00 PM
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Title: AI and Theorem Proving
Venue: virtual

Speaker: Josef Urban, Czech Technical University Title: AI and Theorem Proving Abstract: The talk will discuss the main approaches that combine machine learning with automated theorem proving and automated formalization. This includes learning to choose relevant facts for “hammer” systems, guiding the proof search of tableaux and superposition automated provers by interleaving learning and proving (reinforcement learning) over large ITP libraries, guiding the application of tactics in interactive tactical systems, and various forms of lemmatization and conjecturing. I will also show some demos of the systems, and discuss autoformalization approaches such as learning probabilistic grammars from aligned informal/formal corpora, combining them with semantic pruning, and using neural methods to learn direct translation from Latex to formal mathematics.

  • December 09, 2020 03:00 PM
Speaker:
Title: 12/9/2020 New Tech in Math
Venue: Virtual
  • November 18, 2020 03:00 PM
Speaker:
Title: 11/18/2020 New Tech in Math
Venue: Virtual
  • November 11, 2020 03:00 PM
Speaker:
Title: 11/11/2020 New Technologies in Mathematics
Venue: Virtual
  • November 04, 2020 03:00 PM
Speaker:
Title: 11/4/2020 New Technologies in Math
Venue: Virtual
  • October 28, 2020 03:00 PM
Speaker:
Title: 10/28/2020 New Technologies In Mathematics Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • October 14, 2020 03:00 PM
Speaker:
Title: 10/14/2020 New Technologies Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • September 23, 2020 03:00 PM
Speaker:
Title: 9/23/2020 New Tech in Mathematics Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • September 16, 2020 03:00 PM
Speaker:
Title: 9/16/2020 New Technologies Seminar
Venue: Virtual