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Beginning 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.

Written articles accompany lectures in this series and will be available as part of the publication The Literature and History of Mathematical Science.

Volume 1: Literature and History of Mathematical Science is now in print and available.

CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Nonlinear stability of Kerr black holes for small angular momentum

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Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton University) Title: Nonlinear stability of Kerr black holes for small angular momentum Abstract: According to a well-known conjecture,  initial data sets,  for the Einstein vacuum equations, sufficiently close to a Kerr solution with parameters $a, m$, $|a|/m <1$, have maximal developments with complete future null infinity and with domain of outer communication (i.e complement of […]

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CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture – Karen Uhlenbeck

Virtual

Karen Uhlenbeck (Institute for Advanced Study) Title: The Noether Theorems in Geometry: Then and Now Abstract: The 1918 Noether theorems were a product of the general search for energy and momentum conservation in Einstein’s newly formulated theory of general relativity. Although widely referred to as the connection between symmetry and conservation laws, the theorems themselves […]

Math-Science Literature Lecture Series

Math-Science Literature Lecture Series

CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Mathematics & Literature Lecture Series Beginning in Spring 2020, the CMSA will be 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. Talks will take place throughout the semester. All talks will take place […]

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CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Three Introductory Lectures on Game Theory for Mathematicians: Game Theory Basics and Classical Existence Theorems

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Eric Maskin (Harvard University) Three Introductory Lectures on Game Theory for Mathematicians April 18, 2022 | 9:30 – 11:00 am ET Title: Game Theory Basics and Classical Existence Theorems Abstract: Games in extensive and normal form. Equilibrium existence theorems by Nash, von Neumann, and Zermelo Talk chairs: Scott Kominers, Sergiy Verstyuk SLIDES | VIDEO  

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CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Three Introductory Lectures on Game Theory for Mathematicians: Auction Theory

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Eric Maskin (Harvard University) Three Introductory Lectures on Game Theory for Mathematicians April 22, 2022 | 9:30 – 11:00 am ET Title: Auction Theory Abstract: Equivalences among four standard auctions: the high-bid auction (the high bidder wins and pays her bid); the second-bid auction (the high bidder wins and pays the second-highest bid); the Dutch […]

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CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Large cardinals and small sets: The AD+ Duality Program

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

https://youtu.be/eqCez92m9XE CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Prof. Hugh Woodin will present a lecture in the CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Series. Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 Time: 9:30 - 11:00 am ET Location: Via Zoom Webinar and Room G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138   Title: Large cardinals and small sets: The AD+ Duality Program […]

CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Scott Kominers

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https://youtu.be/y6Gc0G_2Mf0 CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Prof. Scott Kominers will present a lecture in the CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Series. Date: Monday, November 20, 2023 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am ET Location: Via Zoom Webinar Title: 60 Years of Matching: From Gale and Shapley to Trading Networks Abstract: Gale and Shapley's 1962 American Mathematical Monthly paper, "College Admissions and the […]

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CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Amie Wilkinson

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https://youtu.be/yPOy4OoXJX0 CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Prof. Amie Wilkinson gave a lecture in the CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Series. Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 Time: 9:00–10:30 am ET Title: Stretching and shrinking: 85 years of the Hopf argument for ergodicity Abstract:  The early 20th century witnessed an explosion of activity, much of it centered at Harvard, […]

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CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Cameron Gordon

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https://youtu.be/3Opuy9l5S_U CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Prof. Cameron Gordon presented a lecture in the CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Series. Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 Time: 9:00–10:30 am ET Location: Room G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA and via Zoom Webinar Title: The Unknotting Number of a Knot Abstract: One of the oldest and most natural […]

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CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Marc Lackenby

Virtual

https://youtu.be/1QwTqfiqxTw CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am ET Location: Via Zoom Webinar Speaker: Marc Lackenby, University of Oxford Title: The complexity of knots Abstract: In his final paper in 1954, Alan Turing wrote `No systematic method is yet known by which one can tell whether two knots are […]

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CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Bjorn Poonen, MIT

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

https://youtu.be/HcKVfUcffUo CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Date: November 21, 2024 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am ET Location: CMSA G10, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA & via Zoom Speaker: Bjorn Poonen, MIT Title: Ranks of elliptic curves Abstract: Elliptic curves are simplest varieties whose rational points are not fully understood, and they are the simplest projective varieties […]