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
Yunqing Tang Receives 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
Congratulations to Harvard math Ph.D. graduate Yunqing Tang, currently an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley, for receiving the 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics...
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In Memory of Professor Emeritus Heisuke Hironaka
It is with heavy hearts that we say farewell to Professor Emeritus Heisuke Hironaka, who passed away in March, 2026 at the age of 94....
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announcements
Introductory Statistics through Resampling: Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis in the Sciences
July 31, 2026 - August 1, 2026Speaker: Alan Garfinkel - UCLA | Eric J. Deeds - UCLA
Application Form To apply, please follow the link above and fill out the form, where you will be asked to submit the following: 1. Your...
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Current Developments in Mathematics 2026
November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026Speaker: TBA
Register to Attend Organizers: Dennis 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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MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
When: May 13, 20263:00 pm - 4:00 pmWhere: Jefferson Lab 368Speaker: Peter Love (Tufts University)
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CMSA EVENTS
When: May 18, 2026 - May 22, 20268:00 am - 5:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
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GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
When: May 19, 20264:15 pm - 6:30 pmWhere: Science Center 507Speaker: Vasily Krylov (Harvard)
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CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
When: May 20, 20262:00 pm - 3:00 pmWhere: VirtuallySpeaker: Pierfrancesco Urbani (Universite Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, Institut de physique theorique)
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ANNOUNCEMENTS, OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
When: July 31, 2026 - August 1, 2026Where: Science Center 530Speaker: Alan Garfinkel - UCLA | Eric J. Deeds - UCLA
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CMSA Q&A Seminar
When: September 16, 202612:00 pm - 1:00 pmWhere: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common RoomSpeaker: Hugh Woodin (Harvard)
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ANNOUNCEMENTS, CONFERENCES
When: November 19, 2026 - November 20, 2026Where: Harvard Science CenterSpeaker: TBA
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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,CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology II: Mathematics and Science of BehaviorWhen: April 27, 2026 - May 1, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINARCMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Higher current algebras and chiral algebrasWhen: April 27, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G02
Speaker: Charles Young (University of Hertfordshire)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
A New Proof of the Existence Conjecture and its Applications to Extremal and Probabilistic Design TheoryWhen: April 27, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Luke Postle (University of Waterloo)
CMSA COLLOQUIUMCMSA COLLOQUIUM
Enacted collective cognition: Brainless problem-solving in weaver antsWhen: April 27, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Ofer Feinerman (Weizmann Institute of Science)
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2 events,GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
The classifying space of a Morse flow categoryWhen: April 28, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
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4 events,NUMBER THEORYNUMBER THEORY
Arithmetic of Kummer surfaces and additive comboWhen: April 29, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Niven Achenjang (Harvard)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
The Combinatorics of Triangulations of Products of Two SimplicesWhen: April 29, 2026
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: MIT, Room 2-132
Speaker: Yuan (Yannick) Yao (MIT)
MATH TABLEMATH TABLE
The Escape Rate for PolynomialsWhen: April 29, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Ilaria Seidel - Harvard University
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2 events,CMSA Algebra SeminarCMSA Algebra Seminar
Transcendental Epsilon Multiplicity via Divisor Volumes.When: April 30, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Sudipta Das (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
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7 events,SPECIAL LECTURE, OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTSSPECIAL LECTURE, OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Special Lecture: Collusion in AuctionsWhen: May 1, 2026
10:00 am - 10:25 am
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Jinho Park (Harvard AB 26)
SPECIAL LECTURE, OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTSSPECIAL LECTURE, OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Special Lecture: Crossing the cut: Approximation on multiple Riemann sheetsWhen: May 1, 2026
10:30 am - 10:55 am
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Adelina Andrei (Harvard AB 26)
CMSA MEMBER SEMINARCMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
Lifting F-split surfaces to the Witt vectorsWhen: May 1, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Iacopo Brivio (Harvard CMSA)
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3 events,HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Three-color van der Waerden numbers grow super-exponentiallyWhen: May 4, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Jacob Fox (Stanford)
CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINARCMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Twisted D-branes and TQFTs valued in Calabi-Yau categoriesWhen: May 4, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G02
Speaker: Surya Raghaven (Yale University)
CMSA COLLOQUIUMCMSA COLLOQUIUM
Dynamics as intersection problemWhen: May 4, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Nikita Nekrasov (Simons Center)
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1 event,HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRYHARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Moments of families of quadratic L-functions over function fields via homotopy theoryWhen: May 5, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT 2-131
Speaker: Dan Petersen (Stockholm University and IAS)
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3 events,CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICSCMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
New directions in synthetic dataWhen: May 6, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Tatsunori Hashimoto (Stanford)
MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGEMATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
Formalization of QFTWhen: May 6, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Jefferson Lab 368
Speaker: Michael Douglas (Harvard)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
L-log-concavity and a proof of the conjecture of Lam, Postnikov and PylyavskyyWhen: May 6, 2026
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: MIT, Room 2-132
Speaker: David Speyer (University of Michigan)
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3 events,HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICSHARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Balancing extensions in posets of large widthWhen: May 11, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Jeff Kahn (Rutgers University)
CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINARCMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
When do anomalous finite symmetries in (3+1)d enforce gaplessness?When: May 11, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G02
Speaker: Matthew Yu (University of Oxford)
CMSA COLLOQUIUMCMSA COLLOQUIUM
Statistical Shape Analysis of Complex Natural StructuresWhen: May 11, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Anuj Srivastava (Johns Hopkins University)
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1 event,MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGEMATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
Non-contextual approximations, Magic, and Correlation energyWhen: May 13, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Jefferson Lab 368
Speaker: Peter Love (Tufts University)
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1 event,CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Workshop on Calabi-Yau metrics and optimal transportationWhen: May 18, 2026 - May 22, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
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2 events,GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORYGEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: Vasily Krylov (Harvard)When: May 19, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Vasily Krylov (Harvard)
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2 events,CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICSCMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
Separation of timescales controls feature learning and overfitting in large neural networksWhen: May 20, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Pierfrancesco Urbani (Universite Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, Institut de physique theorique)
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CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology II: Mathematics and Science of Behavior
When: April 27, 2026 - May 1, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Higher current algebras and chiral algebras
When: April 27, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G02
Speaker: Charles Young (University of Hertfordshire)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
A New Proof of the Existence Conjecture and its Applications to Extremal and Probabilistic Design Theory
When: April 27, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Luke Postle (University of Waterloo)
CMSA COLLOQUIUM
Enacted collective cognition: Brainless problem-solving in weaver ants
When: April 27, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Ofer Feinerman (Weizmann Institute of Science)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology II: Mathematics and Science of Behavior
When: April 27, 2026 - May 1, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
The classifying space of a Morse flow category
When: April 28, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology II: Mathematics and Science of Behavior
When: April 27, 2026 - May 1, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
NUMBER THEORY
Arithmetic of Kummer surfaces and additive combo
When: April 29, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Niven Achenjang (Harvard)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
The Combinatorics of Triangulations of Products of Two Simplices
When: April 29, 2026
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: MIT, Room 2-132
Speaker: Yuan (Yannick) Yao (MIT)
MATH TABLE
The Escape Rate for Polynomials
When: April 29, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Ilaria Seidel - Harvard University
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology II: Mathematics and Science of Behavior
When: April 27, 2026 - May 1, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA Algebra Seminar
Transcendental Epsilon Multiplicity via Divisor Volumes.
When: April 30, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Sudipta Das (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Mathematics and Biology II: Mathematics and Science of Behavior
When: April 27, 2026 - May 1, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
SPECIAL LECTURE, OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Special Lecture: Collusion in Auctions
When: May 1, 2026
10:00 am - 10:25 am
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Jinho Park (Harvard AB 26)
SPECIAL LECTURE, OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Special Lecture: Crossing the cut: Approximation on multiple Riemann sheets
When: May 1, 2026
10:30 am - 10:55 am
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Adelina Andrei (Harvard AB 26)
CMSA MEMBER SEMINAR
Lifting F-split surfaces to the Witt vectors
When: May 1, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Speaker: Iacopo Brivio (Harvard CMSA)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Three-color van der Waerden numbers grow super-exponentially
When: May 4, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Jacob Fox (Stanford)
CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Twisted D-branes and TQFTs valued in Calabi-Yau categories
When: May 4, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G02
Speaker: Surya Raghaven (Yale University)
CMSA COLLOQUIUM
Dynamics as intersection problem
When: May 4, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Nikita Nekrasov (Simons Center)
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Moments of families of quadratic L-functions over function fields via homotopy theory
When: May 5, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT 2-131
Speaker: Dan Petersen (Stockholm University and IAS)
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
New directions in synthetic data
When: May 6, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Tatsunori Hashimoto (Stanford)
MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
Formalization of QFT
When: May 6, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Jefferson Lab 368
Speaker: Michael Douglas (Harvard)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
L-log-concavity and a proof of the conjecture of Lam, Postnikov and Pylyavskyy
When: May 6, 2026
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: MIT, Room 2-132
Speaker: David Speyer (University of Michigan)
HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
Balancing extensions in posets of large width
When: May 11, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: MIT Room 2-143
Speaker: Jeff Kahn (Rutgers University)
CMSA QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
When do anomalous finite symmetries in (3+1)d enforce gaplessness?
When: May 11, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G02
Speaker: Matthew Yu (University of Oxford)
CMSA COLLOQUIUM
Statistical Shape Analysis of Complex Natural Structures
When: May 11, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Speaker: Anuj Srivastava (Johns Hopkins University)
MATHEMATICAL PICTURE LANGUAGE
Non-contextual approximations, Magic, and Correlation energy
When: May 13, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Jefferson Lab 368
Speaker: Peter Love (Tufts University)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Workshop on Calabi-Yau metrics and optimal transportation
When: May 18, 2026 - May 22, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Workshop on Calabi-Yau metrics and optimal transportation
When: May 18, 2026 - May 22, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: Vasily Krylov (Harvard)
When: May 19, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Speaker: Vasily Krylov (Harvard)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Workshop on Calabi-Yau metrics and optimal transportation
When: May 18, 2026 - May 22, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MATHEMATICS
Separation of timescales controls feature learning and overfitting in large neural networks
When: May 20, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Pierfrancesco Urbani (Universite Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, Institut de physique theorique)
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Workshop on Calabi-Yau metrics and optimal transportation
When: May 18, 2026 - May 22, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
CMSA EVENTS
CMSA Workshop on Calabi-Yau metrics and optimal transportation
When: May 18, 2026 - May 22, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10