Yip Annual Lecture
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). […]
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2019 Ding Shum Lecture
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 […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: My life and times with the sporadic simple groups
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 […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Area-minimizing integral currents and their regularity
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 […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: From Deep Learning to Deep Understanding
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 […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: A personal story of the 4D Poincare conjecture
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 […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Immersions of manifolds and homotopy theory
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 […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Birational geometry
Vyacheslav V. Shokurov (Johns Hopkins University) Title: Birational geometry Abstract: About main achievements in birational geometry during the last fifty years. Talk chair: Caucher Birkar Video
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Kunihiko Kodaira and complex manifolds
Yujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo) Title: Kunihiko Kodaira and complex manifolds Abstract: Kodaira’s motivation was to generalize the theory of Riemann surfaces in Weyl’s book to higher dimensions. After quickly recalling the […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Knot Invariants From Gauge Theory in Three, Four, and Five Dimensions
Edward Witten (IAS) Title: Knot Invariants From Gauge Theory in Three, Four, and Five Dimensions Abstract: I will explain connections between a sequence of theories in two, three, four, and five dimensions and […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Classical and quantum integrable systems in enumerative geometry
Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University) Title: Classical and quantum integrable systems in enumerative geometry Abstract: For more than a quarter of a century, thanks to the ideas and questions originating in modern […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Log Calabi-Yau fibrations
Caucher Birkar (University of Cambridge) Title: Log Calabi-Yau fibrations Abstract: Fano and Calabi-Yau varieties play a fundamental role in algebraic geometry, differential geometry, arithmetic geometry, mathematical physics, etc. The notion of […]