Simons Foundation Co-Founder, Mathematician and Investor Jim Simons Dies at 86
Posted on May 10, 2024Jim Simons April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024 Simons Foundation Co-Founder, Mathematician and Investor Jim Simons Dies at 86 ...
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CMSA 2023-2024 Newsletter
Posted on May 10, 2024The CMSA 2023-2024 Newsletter is now available. CMSA 2023-2024 Newsletter (pdf). ...
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2024 Ding Shum Lecture: Yann LeCun: Objective-Driven AI: Towards AI systems that can learn, remember, reason, and plan
Posted on March 28, 2024On March 28, 2024, the CMSA hosted the fifth annual Ding Shum Lecture, given by Yann LeCun. Speaker: Yann Lecun, New York University & META Location: Harvard Science Center Hall […] ...
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CMSA Director Dan Freed featured in Harvard Gazette
Posted on October 24, 2023“Center welcomes new director, a Harvard alum who will explore ‘beautiful, deep’ interactions between mathematics, science.” Link to article. Story by Anne J. Manning, Harvard Staff Writer Photo courtesy of […] ...
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Cynthia Dwork will give the 2023 Ding Shum Lecture: Measuring Our Chances: Risk Prediction in This World and its Betters
Posted on March 9, 20232023 Ding Shum Lecture Time: 5:00-6:00 pm ET Location: Harvard University Science Center Hall D This event will be held in person and via Zoom webinar. Registration is required. In-person […] ...
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Math-Science Literature Lecture Series
Posted on November 30, 2022Math-Science Literature Lecture Series Beginning in Spring 2020, the CMSA began hosting a lecture series on literature in the mathematical sciences, with a focus on significant developments in mathematics that […] ...
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Before the Big Bang
Posted on January 18, 2021Zhong-Zhi Xianyu and collaborators propose a new way to probe universe before the Big Bang. This research is supported by the CMSA and BHI. ...
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Viewing the universe as a ‘Cosmological Collider’
Posted on January 18, 2021CMSA Postdoc Zhong-Zhi Xianyu and colleagues’ latest research examines residual radiation from the Big Bang and their relation to the elementary particles in the Standard Model of particle physics. Studying […] ...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Finance
Posted on January 18, 2021The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications at Harvard University welcomes applications for a two-year Postdoctoral position at the intersection of mathematics and economics, with a particular preference for finance. […] ...
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Ravi Jagadeesan is a Recipient of the 2019 Morgan Prize
Posted on January 18, 2021Ravi Jagadeesan, an economic design fellow at CMSA and frequent collaborator with Center Affiliate Scott Kominers, is the recipient of the 2019 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics […] ...
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Streetchange Won a Webby Award!
Posted on January 18, 2021Streetchange won a Webby award for Best Use of Machine Learning on the Web! Congratulations to the team. Streetchange is a new way of measuring changes in the physical appearances […] ...
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Remembering Stephen Hawking
Posted on January 18, 2021Stephen Hawking passed away yesterday. He was 76. He visited the Black Hole Initiative in 2016 (pictured above). In 2006, Prof. Shing-Tung Yau helped arrange Prof. Hawking’s visit to China, […] ...
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