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
Two Harvard-Affiliated Math Professors Receive 2026 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
The Wolf Foundation named two former Harvard math professors 2026 Wolf Prize Laureates in Mathematics. Joseph Bernstein and David Kazhdan share the prize for their...
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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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announcements
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
November 9, 2025 - 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 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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ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 20263:00 pm - 4:00 pmWhere: Science Center 119Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
When: October 19, 20263:00 pm - 4:00 pmWhere: MIT Room 2-143Speaker: Zilin Jiang (Arizona State University)
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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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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
When: October 20, 20263:00 pm - 4:00 pmWhere: Jefferson Lab 368Speaker: Scott Sheffield (MIT)
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GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
When: October 20, 20264:15 pm - 6:30 pmWhere: Science Center 507Speaker: Kason Kunkelmann (Harvard)
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CMSA Q&A Seminar
When: October 21, 202612:00 pm - 1:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common RoomSpeaker: Robert M. Freund (MIT)
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CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
When: October 21, 20262:00 pm - 3:00 pmWhere: VirtuallySpeaker: Riccardo Zecchina (Bocconi University Milan)
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CMSA EVENTS
When: October 21, 20264:00 pm - 5:00 pmWhere: Science Center Hall D
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RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
When: October 21, 20264:15 pm - 5:15 pmWhere: Science Center 232Speaker: Jonathan Boretsky (McGill)
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CMSA COLLOQUIUM
When: October 26, 20264:30 pm - 5:30 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10Speaker: Anar Akhmedov (University of Minnesota)
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CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
When: October 28, 20262:00 pm - 3:00 pmWhere: VirtuallySpeaker: Xinjie He (UCLA)
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AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS
When: October 31, 20269:00 am - 5:00 pmWhere: Harvard Science Center
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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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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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AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS
When: November 21, 20269:00 am - 5:00 pmWhere: Harvard Science Center
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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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4 events,ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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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3 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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8 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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4 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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4 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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5 events,CMSA EVENTSCMSA EVENTS
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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3 events,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)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: Markov processes and path integrals continuedWhen: October 6, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Ahsan Khan (Harvard University)
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5 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)
NUMBER THEORYNUMBER THEORY
Number Theory Seminar: The quest for elliptic curves of high rankWhen: October 7, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Noam Elkies (Harvard)
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)
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3 events,THURSDAY SEMINARTHURSDAY SEMINAR
Thursday Seminar: Quasicoherent sheaves of higher categories IIWhen: October 8, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Jonathan Buchanan
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTSCMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Towards a Hodge theoretic mirror symmetry for punctured surfacesWhen: October 8, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: John Alexander Cruz Morales (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
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3 events,CMSA MEMBER SEMINARCMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
CMSA Member Seminar: Quantum Cellular Automata and K theory – *CANCELLED*When: October 9, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Bowen Yang (Harvard)
AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTSAI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Seminar AI for the working mathematician: Large HypercubesWhen: October 9, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Jordan Ellenberg (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
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3 events,HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRYHARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Intersection Cohomology of p-adic Shimura VarietiesWhen: October 13, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Linus Hamann (Harvard University)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: From Random Walks to the Free Quantum FieldWhen: October 13, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Bowen Yang (Harvard)
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6 events,CMSA Q&A SeminarCMSA Q&A Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Discussion on OpenAI Math PapersWhen: October 14, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
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)
NUMBER THEORYNUMBER THEORY
Number Theory Seminar: The $p$-curvature conjecture for privileged local systems (Joint with Michael Groechenig)When: October 14, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Hélène Esnault (Freie Universität Berlin)
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2 events,CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTSCMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: A tale of two Lie groupsWhen: October 15, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Spiro Karigiannis (University of Waterloo)
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3 events,CMSA MEMBER SEMINARCMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
CMSA Member Seminar: An Introduction to Statistical Inference for Partially Identified ModelsWhen: October 16, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Yiqi Liu
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGYGAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
Gauge Theory and Topology Seminar: On Complex S^6When: October 16, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani (Harvard)
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3 events,RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSRICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Unbalancing unit vectorsWhen: October 19, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Zilin Jiang (Arizona State University)
CMSA EVENTSCMSA EVENTS
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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3 events,MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGEMATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
Harvard Mathematical Picture Language Seminar: 4D Hex and Baby Yang-MillsWhen: October 20, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Jefferson Lab 368
Speaker: Scott Sheffield (MIT)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: A Rigorous Construction of the Free Quantum FieldWhen: October 20, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Kason Kunkelmann (Harvard)
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5 events,CMSA Q&A SeminarCMSA Q&A Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar: What is a self-concordant barrier function?, and what is an accelerated first-order algorithm? (ICM Series: On the work of Yurii Nesterov)When: October 21, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Robert M. Freund (MIT)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICSCMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
CMSA New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar: Local learning needs dendritesWhen: October 21, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Riccardo Zecchina (Bocconi University Milan)
CMSA EVENTSCMSA EVENTS
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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2 events,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,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)
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2 events,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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ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: Markov processes and path integrals continued
When: October 6, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Ahsan Khan (Harvard University)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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)
NUMBER THEORY
Number Theory Seminar: The quest for elliptic curves of high rank
When: October 7, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Noam Elkies (Harvard)
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)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
THURSDAY SEMINAR
Thursday Seminar: Quasicoherent sheaves of higher categories II
When: October 8, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Jonathan Buchanan
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Towards a Hodge theoretic mirror symmetry for punctured surfaces
When: October 8, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: John Alexander Cruz Morales (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
CMSA Member Seminar: Quantum Cellular Automata and K theory – *CANCELLED*
When: October 9, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Bowen Yang (Harvard)
AI for the working mathematician, CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Seminar AI for the working mathematician: Large Hypercubes
When: October 9, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Jordan Ellenberg (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Intersection Cohomology of p-adic Shimura Varieties
When: October 13, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Linus Hamann (Harvard University)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: From Random Walks to the Free Quantum Field
When: October 13, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Bowen Yang (Harvard)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
CMSA Q&A Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar: Discussion on OpenAI Math Papers
When: October 14, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
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)
NUMBER THEORY
Number Theory Seminar: The $p$-curvature conjecture for privileged local systems (Joint with Michael Groechenig)
When: October 14, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Hélène Esnault (Freie Universität Berlin)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
CMSA GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR, CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar: A tale of two Lie groups
When: October 15, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Spiro Karigiannis (University of Waterloo)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
CMSA Member Seminar: An Introduction to Statistical Inference for Partially Identified Models
When: October 16, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Yiqi Liu
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY
Gauge Theory and Topology Seminar: On Complex S^6
When: October 16, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani (Harvard)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
RICHARD P. STANLEY SEMINAR IN COMBINATORICS, HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Unbalancing unit vectors
When: October 19, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Zilin Jiang (Arizona State University)
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)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
Harvard Mathematical Picture Language Seminar: 4D Hex and Baby Yang-Mills
When: October 20, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Jefferson Lab 368
Speaker: Scott Sheffield (MIT)
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: A Rigorous Construction of the Free Quantum Field
When: October 20, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Kason Kunkelmann (Harvard)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
CMSA Q&A Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar: What is a self-concordant barrier function?, and what is an accelerated first-order algorithm? (ICM Series: On the work of Yurii Nesterov)
When: October 21, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Robert M. Freund (MIT)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
CMSA New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar: Local learning needs dendrites
When: October 21, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Riccardo Zecchina (Bocconi University Milan)
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
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine
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
ANNOUNCEMENTS, JAMEEL AL-AIDROOS MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY LECTURE SERIES
Jameel Al-Aidroos Mathematical Pedagogy Lecture Series 2026
When: November 9, 2025 - November 9, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 119
Speaker: Natasha Speer - University of Maine