During 2026–27, the CMSA will host a seminar on New Technologies in Mathematics, organized by Michael Douglas and Luca Pesce. 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, join the seminar mailing list 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
https://youtu.be/wTQH6mRDXhw New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Ronen Eldan, Microsoft Research Title: The TinyStories Dataset: How Small Can Language Models Be And Still Speak Coherent Abstract: While generative language models […]
https://youtu.be/Sc6k06wVX3s New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: François Charton, Meta AI Title: Transformers for maths, and maths for transformers Abstract: Transformers can be trained to solve problems of mathematics. I present […]
https://youtu.be/u-pkmdkQoMU New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Alex Gu, MIT Dept. of EE&CS Title: LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in proving formal […]
https://youtu.be/M25cbX5do8Y New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Yuanzhi Li, CMU Dept. of Machine Learning and Microsoft Research Title: Physics of Language Models: Knowledge Storage, Extraction, and Manipulation Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can […]
https://youtu.be/bRHb-MVExJ4 New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Sean Welleck, CMU, Language Technologies Institute Title: Llemma: an open language model for mathematics Abstract: We present Llemma: 7 billion and 34 billion […]
https://youtu.be/a2S_-pl6onM New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Gabriel Poesia, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University Title: Peano: Learning Formal Mathematical Reasoning Without Human Data Abstract: Peano is a theorem proving […]
https://youtu.be/JYt-ldZ3DqM New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Abhishek Panigrahi, Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University Title: On the Power of Forward pass through Transformer Architectures Abstract: Highly trained transformers are […]
https://youtu.be/oiOpudgC0J4 New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Heather Macbeth, Fordham University Title: Approaches to the formalization of differential geometry Abstract: In the last five years, there has been early work […]
https://youtu.be/SPfLEZ-Ghio New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Jordan Ellenberg (UW Madison) Title: Large language models, mathematical discovery, and search in the space of strategies: an anecdote Abstract: I spent a portion […]
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Preetum Nakkiran, Apple Title: What Algorithms can Transformers Learn? A Study in Length Generalization Abstract: Large language models exhibit many surprising “out-of-distribution” generalization abilities, […]
https://youtu.be/JB2WqmpmTgk New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Javier Gomez Serrano, Brown University Title: Computers and mathematics in partial differential equations: new developments and challenges Abstract: In this talk I will […]
https://youtu.be/ZDMRN0Iyp28 New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Gabe Grand, MIT CSAIL and Dept. of EE&CS Title: LILO: Learning Interpretable Libraries by Compressing and Documenting Code Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) […]