Andrew Strominger will give the Third Annual Yip Lecture on February 2, 2023. Time: 7:00-8:00 pm ET Location: Harvard Science Center Hall A Title: Black Holes: The Most Mysterious Objects in the Universe Abstract: In the last decade black holes have come to center stage in both theoretical and observational science. Theoretically, they were […]
Fibered ribbon knots vs. major 4D conjectures Location: Harvard University Science Center Hall A & via Zoom webinar Dates: Feb 20 & 22, 2024 Time: 4:00-5:30 pm Maggie Miller is an assistant professor in the mathematics department at the University of Texas at Austin and a Clay Research Fellow. This is the fourth annual Math Science […]
https://youtu.be/TTM2Qmw-aek Josh Tenenbaum gave the Fourth Annual Yip Lecture on February 29, 2024. Title: How to grow a mind from a brain: From guessing and betting to thinking and talking Time: 4:00-5:00 pm ET Location: Harvard Science Center The Yip Lecture takes place thanks to the support of Dr. Shing-Yiu Yip. The previous Yip Lecture […]
https://youtu.be/MiqLoAZFRSE LECTURE SLIDES (pdf) On March 28, 2024, the CMSA will host the fifth annual Ding Shum Lecture, given by Yann LeCun. Time: 4:30–5:30 pm ET Speaker: Yann Lecun, New York University & META Location: Harvard Science Center Hall A & via Zoom Webinar Title: Objective-Driven AI: Towards AI systems that can learn, remember, reason, […]
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 […]
Speaker: Andrew Neitzke, Yale University Location: Harvard University Science Center Hall D & via Zoom webinar Dates: October 16 & 17, 2024 Time: 4:00 pm https://youtu.be/1SyGyeMmWoM Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024 Title: Abelianization in analysis of ODEs Abstract: I will describe the exact WKB method for asymptotic analysis of families of ODEs in one […]
Speaker: Andrew Neitzke, Yale University Location: Harvard University Science Center Hall D & via Zoom webinar Dates: October 16 & 17, 2024 Time: 4:00 pm https://youtu.be/1SyGyeMmWoM Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024 Title: Abelianization in analysis of ODEs Abstract: I will describe the exact WKB method for asymptotic analysis of families of ODEs in one variable, […]
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 […]
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 […]
https://youtu.be/gXiVVZypHJg 2026 Ding Shum Lecture Date: March 4, 2026 Time: 4:00 pm Location: Harvard Science Center Hall D & via Zoom Webinar Speaker: Sanjeev Arora, Princeton Title: How could a Superhuman AI mathematician come about? Abstract: Can AI systems exceed the capabilities of the human experts who provided their training data? The talk will examine […]
https://youtu.be/V6uVihYhSEM CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture Date: March 10, 2026 Time: 8:45 - 10:15 am ET Location: Harvard Science Center Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA & via Zoom Webinar Speaker: Martin Bridson FRS is the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute. Title: Profinite rigidity: Chasing finite […]