News Archive

Video available for 2025 Ding Shum Lecture (Feb 13, 2025)

Posted on March 5, 2025

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 […] ...

CMSA Publication: Volume 1: Literature and History of Mathematical Science

Posted on March 3, 2025

CMSA Publication Volume 1: Literature and History of Mathematical Science is now in print and available. Beginning in Spring 2020, the CMSA began hosting a lecture series on literature in […] ...

Simons Foundation Co-Founder, Mathematician and Investor Jim Simons Dies at 86

Posted on May 10, 2024

Jim Simons April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024 Simons Foundation Co-Founder, Mathematician and Investor Jim Simons Dies at 86 ...

Annual Newsletter

Posted on May 10, 2024

The CMSA 2023-2024 Newsletter is now available. CMSA 2023-2024 Newsletter (pdf). ...

2024 Ding Shum Lecture: Yann LeCun: Objective-Driven AI: Towards AI systems that can learn, remember, reason, and plan

Posted on March 28, 2024

On 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 […] ...

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 […] ...

Cynthia Dwork will give the 2023 Ding Shum Lecture: Measuring Our Chances: Risk Prediction in This World and its Betters

Posted on March 9, 2023

2023 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 […] ...

Math-Science Literature Lecture Series

Posted on November 30, 2022

Math-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 […] ...

Before the Big Bang

Posted on January 18, 2021

Zhong-Zhi Xianyu and collaborators propose a new way to probe universe before the Big Bang. This research is supported by the CMSA and BHI. ...

Viewing the universe as a ‘Cosmological Collider’

Posted on January 18, 2021

CMSA 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 […] ...

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Finance

Posted on January 18, 2021

The 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. […] ...

Ravi Jagadeesan : Recipient of the 2019 Morgan Prize

Ravi Jagadeesan is a Recipient of the 2019 Morgan Prize

Posted on January 18, 2021

Ravi 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 […] ...