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 […]
On April 2-3, the CMSA will be hosting two lectures by Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter Institute) on “Geometry and Combinatorics in Particle Interactions.” This will be the first of the new annual Bott Math Science Lecture Series hosted by the CMSA. The lectures will take place from 4:30-5:30pm in Science Center, Hall D.
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 […]
Together with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the CMSA will be hosting a lecture series on the Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Computation. Talks in this series will aim to highlight current research trends at the interface of applied math and computation and will explore the application of these trends to challenging scientific, engineering, and […]
Joe Harris (Harvard) Title: Rationality questions in algebraic geometry Abstract: Over the course of the history of algebraic geometry, rationality questions — motivated by both geometric and arithmetic problems — have often driven the subject forward. The rationality or irrationality of cubic hypersurfaces in particular have led to the development of abelian integrals (dimension one), birational geometry (dimension […]
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 […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgLS5ehdV0 On Wednesday September 9, CMSA director Prof. Shing-Tung Yau gave a lecture for the Simons foundation on Existence of Canonical Metrics on Non-Kähler Geometry. In this lecture, Prof. Yau surveys the existence of canonical balanced metrics on non-Kähler complex manifolds through the Hull-Strominger system, which was motivated by string theory on compactifications. He discusses […]
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 give a general geometric approach to the existence of area-minimizing oriented surfaces spanning a given contour. These concepts started a whole new subject which has […]