During Academic year 2018-19, the CMSA will be hosting a Program on Topological Aspects of Condensed Matter. New ideas rooted in topology have recently had a big impact on condensed matter physics, […]
During Academic year 2018-19, the CMSA will be hosting a Program on Mathematical Biology. Just over a century ago, the biologist, mathematician and philologist D’Arcy Thompson wrote “On growth and form”. The […]
In the Fall 2018 Semester the CMSA will be hosting a seminar on Hodge and Noether-Lefschetz loci, with lectures given by Hossein Movasati (IMPA). The seminar will occur weekly on Wednesday at 1:30 in room […]
Speaker: Dusa McDuff (Columbia University) Title: The virtual fundamental class in symplectic geometry Abstract: Essential to many constructions and applications of symplectic geometry is the ability to count J-holomorphic curves. The moduli spaces […]
Current Developments in Mathematics 2018 Conference. Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 2:15 pm – 6:00 pm Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center, Hall B […]
Speaker: Xiaoqin Wang (Johns Hopkins University) Title: Computational Principles of Auditory Cortex Abstract: Auditory cortex is located at the top of a hierarchical processing pathway in the brain that encodes acoustic information. This brain region is crucial […]