Noga Alon (Tel Aviv University) will be giving a public talk on September 7, 2017,as part of the program on combinatorics and complexity hosted by the CMSA during AY17-18. The talk will be at 5:00pm in Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA. Title: Graph Coloring: Local and Global Abstract: Graph Coloring is arguably the most popular subject in Discrete Mathematics, and its […]
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 a one-day event for the benefit of the greater Boston area mathematics community. The 2017 lectures will take place 9:15am – 5:30pm on Monday, October 2 at […]
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 Everything Abstract: We start from the hypothesis that all the information that resides in living organisms was initially acquired either through learning by an individual or […]
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 at 5:00pm in Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA. Title: Network Science: From the Online World to Cancer Genomics Abstract: Everywhere we turn these days, we find […]
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 featured Leslie Valiant, who spoke on “learning as a Theory of Everything.” This year will feature Eric Maskin, who will speak on “How to Improve Presidential […]
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 lectures took place in Science Center, Hall C “Two math lessons from string theory” […]
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). The lecture was held from 4:00-5:00pm in Science Center, Hall A. https://youtu.be/BofWFoiKARQ
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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory […]
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 the period 1965-1975. There were many discussions about the nature of finite simple groups and how sporadic groups are placed in mathematics. While in mathematics grad […]