Chair
As of July 1, 2008, the Chair of the Mathematics Department is
Shing-Tung Yau. Contact information:
professor Shing-Tung Yau, Science Center, 3th Floor
5-0836, yau@math.harvard.edu
Director of Undergraduate Studies
The director of Undergraduate Studies is
Peter Kronheimer.
At Harvard, directors of Undergraduate Studies are often called "Head Tutors".
For questions about concentration in Mathematics, contact the
undergraduate student coordinator
Svetlana Alpert.
Department Administrator
The department administrator is
Ruby Aguirre.
You find Ruby Aguirre and
Robbie Miller
in the main office.
Visitor information
Starting page for visitor information.
Starting page for computing information.
Research
Mathematics research is done in
various research areas
The
junior faculty home pages, the
visitor interests page,
or the
graduate student home pages contain more links.
Check also the
Mathematics seminar archive
the faculty colloquium or regular
conferences like the
CDM conference,
the
JDG conference or a
topology conference,
the conference archive
or research programs like
the
eigenvarieties program 2006.
Also the
seminar talk archive,
the
undergraduate math colloquium
can give clues about activities. Good starting points on the web are
the
MathSciNet search for "Harvard Mathematics" at AMS
or a
Google scholar search for "Harvard Mathematics".
Department
The mathematics department is located on the floors 2,3,4,5 in the
Science center.
A
web camera from the 4'th floor as well as from
the
top allow you to
check the local weather. Information how to reach the department is
here.
Here is a link to the Departments Math-Net page.
During the semesters, there is tea at 4 o clock in the Math
common room.
On Fridays, there is usually "wine and cheese" available. (The name does not exclude that there is also "beer" and nonalcoholic drinks to be found there).
Within Harvard
The mathematics department is part of the
faculty of arts and sciences (FAS) at
Harvard university.
The department is
located in the
Science Center
at
1 Oxford street
in
Cambridge near
Boston in the state of
Massachusetts.
There is a
virtual tour of Harvard.
360 degree panoramas from the department, Harvard square and Harvard yard can be found
here.
Calculus
To search all Harvard courses, start
here.
The Math courses are listed
on this page.
Calculus courses are mainly taught in smaller sections. These sections are taught
independently by section leaders. The coordination is done by a "course head".
The
preceptor group
coordinates the calculus program.
Information about
sectioning,
advising and placement tests is
located here.
For questions, contact the calculus coordinator
Susan Milano
from the calculus office.
Computing
The department senior system administrator is
Arthur Gaer. He is assisted by
Pete Chvany.
For information, start with the
computing links and
especially the
frequently asked questions.
Visitors wishing to use computing resources, find information
here.
The departments Solaris server "Abel" can be reached
by a web browser or with
webmail. This can be useful
for example to read email from an internet cafe. For administrative purposes, there are
Apple OSX and several Linux servers like for example
a newer Sunfire X4150 Server with 2 quadcore Xeons, 8G Ram. For scientific computing,
there is
a 64-bit quad Sun Fire V480 Server with 22GB RAM,
a Linux cluster meccah
is now replaced by a Sun 16 core X4700 Opteron machine, called Alhambra.
Contact
Cameron Freer about "Alhambra".
"Neron" can be reached from your regular Abel account.
Most department users use Mac OS X on their desktop. Some personal machines
run Windows, Linux or Solaris.
Courses
Here is a list
of Math courses which are part of all
FAS courses.
Some department members also teach at the
Summer school or the
Extension school and its
teaching Masters program.
During the
semester
or in the summer,
tutorials are organized. Information about
current tutorials can be found in the
tutorial pamphlet.
All the pamphlets are listed
here in HTML and PDF form. You can download all pamphlets together
as a 30 page PDF document.
Location
Directions to reach the department are
on this page.
To find your way around,
the
Google map,
the
Harvard university map,
the
Web camera or
the
Floorplans might help.
Here are some pictures of the
science center.
Libraries
The Librarian of the "laptop and cellphone free" Birkhoff library in the department is
Nancy Miller.
Nancy also is the contact to the
registrar
as well as book stores for course material. The chair of the Library committee currently is
Curtis McMullen.
The Science center locates also the
Cabot library,
one of the
many libraries
at Harvard. For more information to all Harvard libraries, start
here. In the Cabot science library, there is a scanner near
the periodicals, which allows to scan papers via network to your computer.