Charles River with Bench at Sunset Jointly organized by Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Microsoft Research New England, the Charles River Lectures on Probability and Related Topics is […]
Leslie Valiant will be giving the inaugural talk of the Ding Shum Lectures on Tuesday, October 10 at 5:00 pm in Science Center Hall D, Cambridge, MA. Learning as a Theory of […]
Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research) will be giving a public talk on November 02, 2017, as part of the Program on combinatorics and complexity hosted by the CMSA during AY17-18. The talk will be […]
On October 24, 2018, the CMSA hosted the second annual Ding Shum lecture. This event was made possible by the generous funding of Ding Lei and Harry Shum. Last year […]
On April 9 and 10, 2019 the CMSA hosted two lectures by Mina Aganagic (UC Berkeley). This was the second annual Math Science Lecture Series held in honor of Raoul Bott. The […]
On April 18, 2019 Harvard CMSA hosted the inaugural Yip lecture. The Yip Lecture takes place thanks to the support of Dr. Shing-Yiu Yip. This year’s speaker was Peter Galison (Harvard Physics). […]
https://youtu.be/WEpgH5Anjdg?si=U1LMgvou7OAGE8K8 On October 22, 2019, the CMSA held the third annual Ding Shum lecture. Speaker: Ronald L. Rivest (MIT) Title: Election Security Ronald L. Rivest is an Institute Professor at […]
Robert Griess (University of Michigan) Title: My life and times with the sporadic simple groups Abstract: Five sporadic simple groups were proposed in 19th century and 21 additional ones arose during […]
Camillo De Lellis (IAS) Title: Area-minimizing integral currents and their regularity Abstract: Caccioppoli sets and integral currents (their generalization in higher codimension) were introduced in the late fifties and early sixties to […]
Harry Shum (Tsinghua University) Title: From Deep Learning to Deep Understanding Abstract: In this talk I will discuss a couple of research directions for robust AI beyond deep neural networks. The first is […]
Michael Freedman (Microsoft – Station Q) Title: A personal story of the 4D Poincare conjecture Abstract: The proof of PC4 involved the convergence of several historical streams. To get started: high […]
Ralph Cohen (Stanford University) Title: Immersions of manifolds and homotopy theory Abstract: The interface between the study of the topology of differentiable manifolds and algebraic topology has been one of the richest […]