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 […]
The CMSA hosted a series of three 90-minute lectures on the subject of machine learning for protein folding. Thursday Feb. 9, Thursday Feb. 16, & Thursday March 9, 2023, 3:30-5:00 pm ET Location: G10, CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 & via Zoom Speaker: Nazim Bouatta, Harvard Medical School Abstract: AlphaFold2, a […]
On March 21, 2023, the CMSA hosted the fourth annual Ding Shum Lecture, given by Cynthia Dwork (Harvard SEAS and Microsoft Research). Time: 5:00-6:00 pm ET Location: Harvard University Science Center Hall D This event was be held in person and via Zoom webinar. Title: Measuring Our Chances: Risk Prediction in This World and its […]
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 […]
https://youtu.be/Pht8aXE5IsU Machine Learning in Science Education Panel Discussion Monday, Sep. 30, 2024 3:30-5:30 pm ET Machine Learning is rapidly influencing many spheres of human activity. As part of the CMSA Mathematics and Machine Learning Program, this panel discussion will explore current and future uses of Machine Learning in science education. Panelists will make brief presentations, […]
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 […]
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