News Archive

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 these properties could lead to a greater understanding of the propertie ...

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. The area of research interests is understood broadly ( ...

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 by an Undergraduate Student. Ravi’s “fundam ...

Streetchange Won a Webby Award!

Posted on January 18, 2021

Streetchange 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 of neighborhoods using a computer vision algorithm. The researchers calculated Streetchange by algor ...

Remembering Stephen Hawking

Posted on January 18, 2021

Stephen 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, where he has remained a popular cultural figure. In the words of Prof. Yau, “He was ve ...

Memorial to Maryam Mirzakhani

Posted on January 18, 2021

On Aug. 13, 2017, Boston-area Iranian scholars organized a memorial in honor of Fields Medal winner Maryam Mirzakhani. The event was moderated by CMSA Visitor Artan Sheshmani, and featured comments from leading scholars across several academic institutes. Professor Sheshmani also ...

Strings 2016 Conference at Tsinghua University in Beijing

Posted on January 18, 2021

Many members of the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications recently attended the Strings 2016 Conference hosted at Tsinghua University in Beijing. This week-long conference featured talks by several of the world’s most prominent string theorists, including Director of ...

Inside CMSA’s Nonlinear Equations Program

Posted on January 18, 2021

CMSA has been hosting a special program on nonlinear equations. Most physical phenomena, from the gravitating universe to fluid dynamics, are modeled on nonlinear differential equations. The subject also makes close connections with other branches of mathematics. In particular, s ...