The Harvard Department of Mathematics at Its Best
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news
Solving an Urgent Math Problem: How to Educate Grad Students Amid AI Disruptions
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announcements
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
November 9, 2026 3:00 pmSpeaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
Join us for the fifth annual Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series. What types of knowledge are used in different types of university mathematics teaching?...
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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 Thursday, November 19 Friday, November 20 2:30 – 3:20 p.m. Part 1 3:20 – 3:30 p.m. Break 3:30 – 4:20 p.m. Part...
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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 Q&A Seminar
When: November 4, 202612:00 pm - 1:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common RoomSpeaker: Wes Cain (Harvard)
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CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
When: November 4, 20262:00 pm - 3:00 pmWhere: VirtuallySpeaker: Yasaman Bahri (Google DeepMind)
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NUMBER THEORY
When: November 4, 20263:00 pm - 4:00 pmWhere: Science Center 507Speaker: Keerthi Madapusi (Boston College)
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RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
When: November 4, 20264:15 pm - 5:15 pmWhere: MIT, Room 2-132Speaker: Sarah Brauner (UPenn)
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AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS
When: November 4, 20264:30 pm - 5:30 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: Andrew Sutherland (MIT)
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OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD
When: November 4, 20265:00 pm - 6:00 pmWhere: Science Center 507Speaker: Lorenzo Riva (Harvard CMSA)
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OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
When: November 5, 20263:00 pm - 4:00 pmWhere: Science Center 232Speaker: Jacob Barandes (Harvard)
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THURSDAY SEMINAR
When: November 5, 20263:30 pm - 5:30 pmWhere: Science Center 507Speaker: Tomer Schlank (Harvard)
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CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
When: November 5, 20264:30 pm - 5:30 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)
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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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GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
When: November 6, 20263:30 pm - 4:30 pmWhere: Science Center 507Speaker: Richard Bamler (UC Berkeley)
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JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
When: November 9, 20263:00 pm - 4:00 pmWhere: Science Center 119Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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CMSA COLLOQUIUM
When: November 9, 20264:30 pm - 5:30 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: Lukas Müller (LMU Munich)
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CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MATHEMATICS, 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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AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS
When: November 21, 20269:00 am - 5:00 pmWhere: Harvard Science Center
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CMSA COLLOQUIUM
When: November 30, 20264:30 pm - 5:30 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: James Propp (UMass Lowell)
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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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1 event,CMSA COLLOQUIUMCMSA COLLOQUIUM
CMSA Colloquium: The Geography of Symplectic 4-ManifoldsWhen: October 26, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Anar Akhmedov (University of Minnesota)
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2 events,MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGEMATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
Harvard Mathematical Picture Language Seminar: Bootloops Claude-shaped Science Across DisciplinesWhen: October 27, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Jefferson Lab 368
Speaker: Matt Schwartz (Harvard)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: A Rigorous Construction of the Free Quantum FieldWhen: October 27, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Kason Kunkelmann (Harvard)
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4 events,CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICSCMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
CMSA New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar: The IEANTN Project: Automation and Mathematical UnderstandingWhen: October 28, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Xinjie He (UCLA)
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSRICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Zamolodchikov Periodic Cluster AlgebrasWhen: October 28, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Ariana Chin (UCLA)
NUMBER THEORYNUMBER THEORY
Number Theory Seminar: Describing the cohomology of congruence subgroups via categorical LanglandsWhen: October 28, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Matthew Emerton (University of Chicago)
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3 events,THURSDAY SEMINARTHURSDAY SEMINAR
Thursday Seminar: Stefanich Rings IIWhen: October 29, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Linus Hamman (Harvard)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICSALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Algebraic Dynamics seminar: p-adic Siegel disks on K3 surfacesWhen: October 29, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Ben Church (MIT)
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTSCMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Worldsheets, baby universes, and asymptotic representation theoryWhen: October 29, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Elliott Gesteau (MIT & CMSA)
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1 event,CMSA MEMBER SEMINARCMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
CMSA Member Seminar: Poincaré Duality in Quantum Error-Correcting CodesWhen: October 30, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Bowen Yang (Harvard CMSA)
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1 event,AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTSAI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS
Doing Mathematics with AI AgentsWhen: October 31, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: Harvard Science Center
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2 events,RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSRICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Random graphs: The extreme tailWhen: November 2, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Huy Tuan Pham (University of Chicago)
CMSA COLLOQUIUMCMSA COLLOQUIUM
CMSA Colloquium: Extreme DiffusionWhen: November 2, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Ivan Corwin (Columbia University)
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2 events,HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRYHARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Complex structures on S^6When: November 3, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Phil Engel (UIC)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: The free field and the Fock spaceWhen: November 3, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Tobias Schmidt (CMSA)
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6 events,CMSA Q&A SeminarCMSA Q&A Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Can Math Mend a Broken Heart?When: November 4, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Wes Cain (Harvard)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICSCMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
CMSA New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar: On the emergence of representational geometry from the statistics of natural languageWhen: November 4, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Yasaman Bahri (Google DeepMind)
NUMBER THEORYNUMBER THEORY
Number Theory Seminar: The Hodge conjecture for CM abelian varietiesWhen: November 4, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Keerthi Madapusi (Boston College)
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3 events,OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTSOTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Introductory Math Seminar: Some Thoughts on Teaching: Why Physics Matters for the Integral Theorems of Vector CalculusWhen: November 5, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Jacob Barandes (Harvard)
THURSDAY SEMINARTHURSDAY SEMINAR
Thursday Seminar: GestaltenWhen: November 5, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Tomer Schlank (Harvard)
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTSCMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Recent developments in super geometryWhen: November 5, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)
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2 events,CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Northeast Conference on Categorical MethodsWhen: November 6, 2026 - November 7, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGYGAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
Gauge Theory and Topology Seminar: Recent progress in 4-dimensional Ricci flow and potential applications to topologyWhen: November 6, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Richard Bamler (UC Berkeley)
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2 events,JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIESJAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026When: November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
CMSA COLLOQUIUMCMSA COLLOQUIUM
CMSA Colloquium: Unitary extended topological field theories and higher hermitian objectsWhen: November 9, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Lukas Müller (LMU Munich)
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1 event,CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MATHEMATICS, CONFERENCES
Current Developments in Mathematics 2026When: November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026
12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Where: Science Center Hall A
Speaker: Roger Casals - UC Davis | Jennifer Morse - University of Virginia | Naomi Sweeting - MIT
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1 event,AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTSAI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS
Doing Mathematics with AI AgentsWhen: November 21, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: Harvard Science Center
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1 event,CMSA COLLOQUIUMCMSA COLLOQUIUM
CMSA Colloquium: Snake graphs and q-deformed real numbersWhen: November 30, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: James Propp (UMass Lowell)
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CMSA COLLOQUIUM
CMSA Colloquium: The Geography of Symplectic 4-Manifolds
When: October 26, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Anar Akhmedov (University of Minnesota)
MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
Harvard Mathematical Picture Language Seminar: Bootloops Claude-shaped Science Across Disciplines
When: October 27, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Jefferson Lab 368
Speaker: Matt Schwartz (Harvard)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: A Rigorous Construction of the Free Quantum Field
When: October 27, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Kason Kunkelmann (Harvard)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
CMSA New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar: The IEANTN Project: Automation and Mathematical Understanding
When: October 28, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Xinjie He (UCLA)
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Zamolodchikov Periodic Cluster Algebras
When: October 28, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Ariana Chin (UCLA)
NUMBER THEORY
Number Theory Seminar: Describing the cohomology of congruence subgroups via categorical Langlands
When: October 28, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Matthew Emerton (University of Chicago)
THURSDAY SEMINAR
Thursday Seminar: Stefanich Rings II
When: October 29, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Linus Hamman (Harvard)
ALGEBRAIC DYNAMICS
Algebraic Dynamics seminar: p-adic Siegel disks on K3 surfaces
When: October 29, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Ben Church (MIT)
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Worldsheets, baby universes, and asymptotic representation theory
When: October 29, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Elliott Gesteau (MIT & CMSA)
CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
CMSA Member Seminar: Poincaré Duality in Quantum Error-Correcting Codes
When: October 30, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Bowen Yang (Harvard CMSA)
AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS
Doing Mathematics with AI Agents
When: October 31, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: Harvard Science Center
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Random graphs: The extreme tail
When: November 2, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Huy Tuan Pham (University of Chicago)
CMSA COLLOQUIUM
CMSA Colloquium: Extreme Diffusion
When: November 2, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Ivan Corwin (Columbia University)
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Complex structures on S^6
When: November 3, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Phil Engel (UIC)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: The free field and the Fock space
When: November 3, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Tobias Schmidt (CMSA)
CMSA Q&A Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Can Math Mend a Broken Heart?
When: November 4, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Wes Cain (Harvard)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
CMSA New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar: On the emergence of representational geometry from the statistics of natural language
When: November 4, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Yasaman Bahri (Google DeepMind)
NUMBER THEORY
Number Theory Seminar: The Hodge conjecture for CM abelian varieties
When: November 4, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Keerthi Madapusi (Boston College)
OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Introductory Math Seminar: Some Thoughts on Teaching: Why Physics Matters for the Integral Theorems of Vector Calculus
When: November 5, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Jacob Barandes (Harvard)
THURSDAY SEMINAR
Thursday Seminar: Gestalten
When: November 5, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Tomer Schlank (Harvard)
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Recent developments in super geometry
When: November 5, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Northeast Conference on Categorical Methods
When: November 6, 2026 - November 7, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
Gauge Theory and Topology Seminar: Recent progress in 4-dimensional Ricci flow and potential applications to topology
When: November 6, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Richard Bamler (UC Berkeley)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Northeast Conference on Categorical Methods
When: November 6, 2026 - November 7, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
CMSA COLLOQUIUM
CMSA Colloquium: Unitary extended topological field theories and higher hermitian objects
When: November 9, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Lukas Müller (LMU Munich)
CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MATHEMATICS, CONFERENCES
Current Developments in Mathematics 2026
When: November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026
12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Where: Science Center Hall A
Speaker: Roger Casals - UC Davis | Jennifer Morse - University of Virginia | Naomi Sweeting - MIT
CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MATHEMATICS, CONFERENCES
Current Developments in Mathematics 2026
When: November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026
12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Where: Science Center Hall A
Speaker: Roger Casals - UC Davis | Jennifer Morse - University of Virginia | Naomi Sweeting - MIT
AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS
Doing Mathematics with AI Agents
When: November 21, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: Harvard Science Center
CMSA COLLOQUIUM
CMSA Colloquium: Snake graphs and q-deformed real numbers
When: November 30, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: James Propp (UMass Lowell)