As part of the program on Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics, Total Positivity and Motives, the CMSA will host a “Master Class Workshop” on October 28-30, 2019. Each day of the workshop will feature an intensive full day of pedagogical lectures, with the aim of bringing actively interested but non-expert physicists and mathematicians up to speed on the featured […]
On November 1, 2019 the CMSA will be hosting a conference organized by Seven Bridges Genomics. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Projects currently underway around the world are collecting detailed health and genomic data from millions of volunteers. In parallel, numerous healthcare systems have announced commitments […]
On November 12-14, 2019 the CMSA will be hosting a workshop on Dynamics, Randomness, and Control in Molecular and Cellular Networks. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Biological cells are the fundamental units of life, and predictive modeling of cellular dynamics is essential for understanding a […]
Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 1:30 pm – 5:20 pm Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center, Hall C Speakers: · Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine) · Subash Khot (NYU) · Jun Li (Stanford) · André Neves (Chicago) · Geordie Williamson (U Sidney) Youtube Playlist
On December 2-4, 2019 the CMSA will be hosting a workshop on Quantum Matter as part of our program on Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Pictures can be found here. Organizers: Juven Wang (CMSA), Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT), […]
On March 4-6, 2020 the CMSA will be hosting a three-day workshop on Mirror symmetry, Gauged linear sigma models, Matrix factorizations, and related topics as part of the Simons Collaboration on Homological Mirror Symmetry. The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Speakers: Andrei Căldăraru, University of Wisconsin David Favero, University […]
Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard) Title: Shiing-Shen Chern as a Great Geometer of 20th Century Video | Slides | Article
Together with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the CMSA will be hosting a lecture series on the Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Computation. Talks in this series will aim to highlight current research trends at the interface of applied math and computation and will explore the application of these trends to challenging scientific, engineering, and […]
Simon Donaldson (Stony Brook) Title: The ADHM construction of Yang-Mills instantons Abstract: In 1978 (Physics Letters 65A) Atiyah, Hitchin, Drinfeld and Manin (ADHM) described a construction of the general solution of the Yang-Mills instanton equations over the 4-sphere using linear algebra. This was a major landmark in the modern interaction between geometry and physics, and the […]
Donald Rubin (Harvard) Title: Why do some universities have separate departments of statistics? And are they all anachronisms, destined to follow the path of other dinosaurs? Video | Slides
Joe Harris (Harvard) Title: Rationality questions in algebraic geometry Abstract: Over the course of the history of algebraic geometry, rationality questions — motivated by both geometric and arithmetic problems — have often driven the subject forward. The rationality or irrationality of cubic hypersurfaces in particular have led to the development of abelian integrals (dimension one), birational geometry (dimension […]
Pavel Etingof (MIT) Title: Quantum Groups Abstract: The theory of quantum groups developed in mid 1980s from attempts to construct and understand solutions of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation, an important equation arising in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. Since then, it has grown into a vast subject with profound connections to many areas of mathematics, such as […]