CMSA/MATH Welcome Back Gathering
Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 4:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.
Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 4:00 pm All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.
https://youtu.be/jEDFrIvRowc On February 13, 2025 the CMSA hosted the sixth annual Ding Shum Lecture, given by Irit Dinur, Institute for Advanced Study. Location: Harvard Science Center Hall A & via Zoom Webinar Speaker: Irit Dinur, Institute for Advanced Study Title: Expanders from local to global Abstract: Imagine a network—like a social network, a transportation […]
Program on Classical, quantum, and probabilistic integrable systems - novel interactions and applications Dates: March 24–May 24, 2025 Location: CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Exactly solvable models have played pivotal roles in mathematics and physics throughout their history. The program is dedicated to exploring and developing a more recent wave of their influence […]
When: April 4, 2025 - April 5, 2025 Where: Science Center Hall C Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States Speaker: Michael Chapman - NYU | Pazit Haim-Kislev - Institute for Advanced Study | Jianfeng Lin - Tsinghua University | Laura Monk - University of Bristol | Ramon van Handel - Princeton University IN-PERSON REGISTRATION Limited […]
https://youtu.be/JJ88e4H4b8Q CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Date: April 8, 2025 Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am ET Location: CMSA G10, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA & via Zoom Speaker: Scott Sheffield (MIT) Title: Yang-Mills theory and random surfaces Abstract: The Clay Institute famously offered one million dollars to anyone who could mathematically construct and understand a certain continuum […]
https://youtu.be/VplMHWSZf5c Speaker: Scott Aaronson, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas, Austin Scott Aaronson is the founding director at the Quantum Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Date: April 17, 2025 Time: 4:00-5:00 pm ET (Reception following in the Math Common Room) Location: Harvard Science Center Hall A Title: How Much […]
Summer School in Total Positivity and Quantum Field Theory Dates: June 2–4, 2025 Location: CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA In the past decade, there has been a great deal of interest and progress in the study of algebro-combinatorial and geometric structures appearing across diverse areas of physics, from particle physics to cosmology. As these […]
Workshop on Quantum Field Theory and Topological Phases via Homotopy Theory and Operator Algebras Dates: June 30 - July 11, 2025 Location: CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany This event is a twinned workshop at the CMSA (Harvard) and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (Bonn). Lectures will alternate […]
Fall CMSA Welcome Event Date: September 3, 2025 Time: 4:00 pm Location: CMSA Common Room, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA All CMSA and Math affiliates are invited.
Math and Machine Learning Reunion Workshop Dates: September 8–10, 2025 Location: Harvard CMSA, Room G10, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA Machine learning and AI are increasingly important tools in all fields of research. In the fall of 2024, the CMSA Mathematics and Machine Learning Program hosted 70 mathematicians and machine learning experts, ranging from beginners to […]
Big Data Conference 2025 Dates: Sep. 11–12, 2025 Location: Harvard University CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge & via Zoom The Big Data Conference features 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. Invited Speakers Markus J. Buehler, MIT […]
The Geometry of Machine Learning Dates: September 15–18, 2025 Location: Harvard CMSA, Room G10, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Despite the extraordinary progress in large language models, mathematicians suspect that other dimensions of intelligence must be defined and simulated to complete the picture. Geometric and symbolic reasoning are among these. In fact, there seems […]