The Harvard Department of Mathematics at Its Best
We are pleased to bring you this short documentary exploring the depth and creativity of our department. Special thanks to everyone who was part of...
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news
Summit on PhD Math Education in the Age of AI
On September 17–18, 2026 a group of 24 mathematicians met at Harvard to grapple with the changing landscape for mathematics PhD programs in the age...
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Harvard Math Professor Joins Independent Group Advising AI Companies on Research Standards
Harvard Mathematics professor Melanie Matchett Wood has joined an independent group of nine mathematicians that will advise OpenAI and other AI companies on how to...
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announcements
Current Developments in Mathematics 2026
November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026Speaker: Roger Casals - UC Davis | Jennifer Morse - University of Virginia | Naomi Sweeting - MIT
Register to Attend Organizers: Denis Auroux (Harvard), David Jerison (MIT), Mark Kisin (Harvard), Nike Sun (MIT), Lauren Williams (Harvard). Sponsored by the National Science Foundation...
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Number Theory and Representation Theory: The Legacy of Benedict Gross, and Beyond
March 15, 2027 - March 19, 2027Speaker: Click more info for full list of speakers
Dick Gross (June 22, 1950 – December 19, 2025) made groundbreaking contributions in domains such as number theory and representation theory, and spent nearly five...
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upcoming events
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CMSA EVENTS
When: September 28, 2026 - October 2, 20268:00 am - 5:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
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THURSDAY SEMINAR
When: October 1, 20263:30 pm - 5:30 pmWhere: Science Center 507Speaker: Jeremy Hahn
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CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
When: October 1, 20264:30 pm - 5:30 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: Tobias Ekholm (Uppsala)
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CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
When: October 2, 202612:00 pm - 1:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common RoomSpeaker: Aaron Landesman (Harvard)
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GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
When: October 2, 20263:30 pm - 4:30 pmWhere: Science Center 507Speaker: Artem Aleshin (Stony Brook University)
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CMSA EVENTS
When: October 5, 20261:30 pm - 3:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: Michael Brenner (Harvard and Google)
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RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
When: October 5, 20263:00 pm - 4:00 pmWhere: MIT Room 2-143Speaker: Xiaoyu He (Georgia Tech)
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CMSA COLLOQUIUM
When: October 5, 20264:30 pm - 5:30 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: Subhabrata Sen (Harvard Statistics)
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HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
When: October 6, 20263:00 pm - 4:30 pmWhere: Science Center 507Speaker: Antonella Grassi (University of Bologna)
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CMSA Q&A Seminar
When: October 7, 202612:00 pm - 1:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common RoomSpeaker: Shaoyun Bai (MIT)
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INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
When: October 7, 20264:00 pm - 5:00 pmWhere: Science Center 530Speaker: Rafael Saavedra (Harvard)
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RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
When: October 7, 20264:15 pm - 5:15 pmWhere: MIT, Room 2-132Speaker: Ada Stelzer (University of Michigan)
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CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
When: October 14, 20262:00 pm - 3:00 pmWhere: VirtuallySpeaker: Tianyi Peng (Columbia Business School)
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INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
When: October 14, 20264:00 pm - 5:00 pmWhere: Science Center 530Speaker: Elena Kim (Harvard)
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CMSA EVENTS
When: October 19, 20264:00 pm - 5:00 pmWhere: Science Center Hall DSpeaker: Daniel Litt (Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitor, Harvard Mathematics Department)
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CMSA EVENTS
When: October 21, 20264:00 pm - 5:00 pmWhere: Science Center Hall D
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CMSA EVENTS
When: November 6, 2026 - November 7, 20269:00 am - 5:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
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CMSA COLLOQUIUM
When: November 16, 20264:30 pm - 5:30 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: James Propp (UMass Lowell)
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ANNOUNCEMENTS, CONFERENCES
When: November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026Where: Science Center Hall ASpeaker: Roger Casals - UC Davis | Jennifer Morse - University of Virginia | Naomi Sweeting - MIT
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CONFERENCES
When: March 15, 2027 - March 19, 2027Where: Harvard Science CenterSpeaker: Click more info for full list of speakers
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3 events,CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Workshop on Lagrangian Floer theory and applicationsWhen: September 28, 2026 - October 2, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Learning Functions of HalfspacesWhen: September 28, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Shyamal Patel (Columbia University)
CMSA COLLOQUIUMCMSA COLLOQUIUM
CMSA Colloquium: Life on a Noisy Seascape: Extinction, Growth, and DiversityWhen: September 28, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Mehran Kardar (MIT)
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2 events,GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: From Markov processes to path integralsWhen: September 29, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Tomer Schlank (Harvard)
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7 events,CMSA Q&A SeminarCMSA Q&A Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar: What is Lagrangian Floer homology?When: September 30, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Denis Auroux (Harvard University)
NUMBER THEORYNUMBER THEORY
Number Theory Seminar: Zig-Zag holds for Galois representationsWhen: September 30, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Eknath Ghate (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACESINFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Algebraic geometry of earthquakesWhen: September 30, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Curtis McMullen (Harvard)
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3 events,THURSDAY SEMINARTHURSDAY SEMINAR
Thursday Seminar: Quasicoherent sheaves of higher categoriesWhen: October 1, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Jeremy Hahn
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTSCMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Skein valued curve counts and associativesWhen: October 1, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Tobias Ekholm (Uppsala)
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3 events,CMSA MEMBER SEMINARCMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
CMSA Member Seminar: Painlevé VI: the search for canonical representationsWhen: October 2, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Aaron Landesman (Harvard)
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGYGAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
Gauge Theory and Topology Seminar: Nearly-parallel $G_2$-structures in different homotopy classesWhen: October 2, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Artem Aleshin (Stony Brook University)
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CMSA Special Seminar: A physical interpretation of recent singularity theoremsWhen: October 5, 2026
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Michael Brenner (Harvard and Google)
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSRICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Off-diagonal hypergraph Ramsey numbersWhen: October 5, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Xiaoyu He (Georgia Tech)
CMSA COLLOQUIUMCMSA COLLOQUIUM
CMSA Colloquium: Spectral Methods for signal recovery in multi-modal problemsWhen: October 5, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Subhabrata Sen (Harvard Statistics)
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1 event,HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRYHARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Bounds on the Mordell-Weil rank of certain elliptic fibrationsWhen: October 6, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Antonella Grassi (University of Bologna)
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3 events,CMSA Q&A SeminarCMSA Q&A Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar: What is a virtual fundamental cycle? (ICM Series: On the work of John Pardon)When: October 7, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Shaoyun Bai (MIT)
INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACESINFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Simple geodesics on a hyperbolic torusWhen: October 7, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Rafael Saavedra (Harvard)
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSRICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Gröbner crystal structures and equivariant Hilbert seriesWhen: October 7, 2026
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: MIT, Room 2-132
Speaker: Ada Stelzer (University of Michigan)
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2 events,CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICSCMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
CMSA New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar: ProvezMe: Formalizing Fermat Last Theorem and BeyondWhen: October 14, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Tianyi Peng (Columbia Business School)
INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACESINFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Polynomial bounds for eigenfunctions and eigenvalues on random covers of hyperbolic surfacesWhen: October 14, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Elena Kim (Harvard)
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CMSA Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott | Daniel Litt, Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitor, Harvard Mathematics DepartmentWhen: October 19, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Science Center Hall D
Speaker: Daniel Litt (Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitor, Harvard Mathematics Department)
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CMSA Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott | Daniel Litt, Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitor, Harvard Mathematics DepartmentWhen: October 21, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Science Center Hall D
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CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Workshop on Lagrangian Floer theory and applications
When: September 28, 2026 - October 2, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Learning Functions of Halfspaces
When: September 28, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Shyamal Patel (Columbia University)
CMSA COLLOQUIUM
CMSA Colloquium: Life on a Noisy Seascape: Extinction, Growth, and Diversity
When: September 28, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Mehran Kardar (MIT)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Workshop on Lagrangian Floer theory and applications
When: September 28, 2026 - October 2, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: From Markov processes to path integrals
When: September 29, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Tomer Schlank (Harvard)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Workshop on Lagrangian Floer theory and applications
When: September 28, 2026 - October 2, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA Q&A Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar: What is Lagrangian Floer homology?
When: September 30, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Denis Auroux (Harvard University)
NUMBER THEORY
Number Theory Seminar: Zig-Zag holds for Galois representations
When: September 30, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Eknath Ghate (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Algebraic geometry of earthquakes
When: September 30, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Curtis McMullen (Harvard)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Workshop on Lagrangian Floer theory and applications
When: September 28, 2026 - October 2, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
THURSDAY SEMINAR
Thursday Seminar: Quasicoherent sheaves of higher categories
When: October 1, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Jeremy Hahn
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Skein valued curve counts and associatives
When: October 1, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Tobias Ekholm (Uppsala)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Workshop on Lagrangian Floer theory and applications
When: September 28, 2026 - October 2, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
CMSA Member Seminar: Painlevé VI: the search for canonical representations
When: October 2, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Aaron Landesman (Harvard)
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
Gauge Theory and Topology Seminar: Nearly-parallel $G_2$-structures in different homotopy classes
When: October 2, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Artem Aleshin (Stony Brook University)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Special Seminar: A physical interpretation of recent singularity theorems
When: October 5, 2026
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Michael Brenner (Harvard and Google)
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Off-diagonal hypergraph Ramsey numbers
When: October 5, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Xiaoyu He (Georgia Tech)
CMSA COLLOQUIUM
CMSA Colloquium: Spectral Methods for signal recovery in multi-modal problems
When: October 5, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Subhabrata Sen (Harvard Statistics)
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Bounds on the Mordell-Weil rank of certain elliptic fibrations
When: October 6, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Antonella Grassi (University of Bologna)
CMSA Q&A Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar: What is a virtual fundamental cycle? (ICM Series: On the work of John Pardon)
When: October 7, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Shaoyun Bai (MIT)
INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Simple geodesics on a hyperbolic torus
When: October 7, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Rafael Saavedra (Harvard)
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Gröbner crystal structures and equivariant Hilbert series
When: October 7, 2026
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: MIT, Room 2-132
Speaker: Ada Stelzer (University of Michigan)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
CMSA New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar: ProvezMe: Formalizing Fermat Last Theorem and Beyond
When: October 14, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Tianyi Peng (Columbia Business School)
INFORMAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS, GEOMETRY AND MODULI SPACES
Polynomial bounds for eigenfunctions and eigenvalues on random covers of hyperbolic surfaces
When: October 14, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Science Center 530
Speaker: Elena Kim (Harvard)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott | Daniel Litt, Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitor, Harvard Mathematics Department
When: October 19, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Science Center Hall D
Speaker: Daniel Litt (Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitor, Harvard Mathematics Department)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott | Daniel Litt, Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitor, Harvard Mathematics Department
When: October 21, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Science Center Hall D