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SUMMARY:2026 Ding Shum Lecture: Sanjeev Arora\, Princeton
DESCRIPTION:2026 Ding Shum Lecture \nDate: March 4\, 2026 \nTime: 4:00 pm \nLocation: Harvard Science Center Hall D & via Zoom Webinar \nSpeaker: Sanjeev Arora\, Princeton \nTitle: How could a Superhuman AI mathematician come about? \n\nAbstract: Can AI systems exceed the capabilities of the human experts who provided their training data? The talk will examine the hypothesis of AI self‑improvement\, involving mechanisms such as synthetic data generation\, reinforcement learning\, and tool‑augmented reasoning with formal verification loops. \nI will also present recent work at Princeton\, including the Gödel Prover V2 for Lean‑based theorem proving and a new inference pipeline that achieved state‑of‑the‑art performance (at the time of evaluation) on IMO‑ProofBench (Advanced) at moderate inference costs ($20–$30 per problem). These will illustrate how AI systems are sometimes able to escape “cognitive wells”—local optima in a model’s reasoning capabilities. While providing evidence for the feasibility of self‑improvement\, they also highlight important hurdles and open questions. \n\n  \n\n \nSanjeev Arora is Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science and Director of Princeton Language and Intelligence\, a unit devoted to research and applications of large AI models. He got his Phd from UC Berkeley in 1994 and has been a faculty member at Princeton since then. He has been awarded the ACM Prize in Computing (2011)\, Fulkerson Prize in Discrete Mathematics (2012)\, Packard Fellowship\, Sloan Fellowship\, and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Prize. He was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 and is a member of the National Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible by the generous funding of Ding Lei and Harry Shum.\n\n\n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/2026_dingshum/
LOCATION:Harvard Science Center\, 1 Oxford Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Ding Shum Lecture,Event,Public Lecture,Special Lectures
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SUMMARY:CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Martin Bridson: Profinite rigidity: Chasing finite shadows of infinite groups
DESCRIPTION:CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture \n \nDate: March 10\, 2026 \nTime: 8:45 – 10:15 am ET \nLocation: Harvard Science Center Hall A\, 1 Oxford Street\, Cambridge MA &  via Zoom Webinar \nSpeaker: Martin Bridson FRS is the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute. \nTitle: Profinite rigidity: Chasing finite shadows of infinite groups \nAbstract: There are many situations in geometry or elsewhere in mathematics where it is natural or convenient to explore infinite groups of symmetries via their actions on finite objects. But how hard is it to find these finite manifestations and to what extent does the collection of all such actions determine the infinite group?\nIn this talk\, I will sketch some of the rich history of such problems and then describe some of the significant advances in recent years. \nWe’ll pay particular attention to groups that arise in 3-dimensional geometry and topology. \n  \n\nBeginning in Spring 2020\, the CMSA began hosting a lecture series on literature in the mathematical sciences\, with a focus on significant developments in mathematics that have influenced the discipline\, and the lifetime accomplishments of significant scholars. \n  \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/mathscilit2026_mb/
CATEGORIES:Math Science Literature Lecture Series,Public Lecture,Special Lectures
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SUMMARY:Millennium Prize Problems Lecture - Javier Gómez-Serrano: Navier-Stokes Existence or Breakdown
DESCRIPTION:Date: March 11\, 2026 \nTime: 5:00–6:00 pm \nLocation: Harvard Science Center Hall C\, 1 Oxford St.\, Cambridge MA & via Zoom Webinar \nSpeaker: Javier Gómez-Serrano\, Brown University \nTitle: Navier-Stokes Existence or Breakdown \nAbstract: The Navier-Stokes equations have been the cornerstone of fluid dynamics for over a century\, accurately describing the motion of viscous fluids such as water and air. However\, despite their fundamental importance to mathematics and physics\, a profound question remains unanswered: do solutions to these equations always exist for all time\, or can they break down and develop singularities (points where the equations lose their validity)? In this Millennium Prize Problems Lecture\, I will explore the current mathematical landscape surrounding the Navier-Stokes and related equations. The talk will discuss the historical context\, the ongoing search for global regularity versus finite-time blowup\, and the latest analytical and computational breakthroughs pushing the boundaries of what we know about fluid behavior. \nRead more about the Navier-Stokes Equation at the Clay Math website. \n  \nOrganizers: Martin Bridson\, Clay Mathematics Institute | Dan Freed\, Harvard University and CMSA | Mike Hopkins\, Harvard University \n\n                   \n\nMillennium Prize Problems Lecture Series
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/clay_31126/
LOCATION:Harvard Science Center\, 1 Oxford Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Millennium Prize Problems Lecture,Special Lectures
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