The Department of Mathematics launched the Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitors Program earlier this year thanks to a new gift from William R. Hearst III ’72. Each year, the department will invite a prominent mathematician from another institution to teach,...
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Michael Simkin, post-doctoral fellow at Harvard's CMSA, has an answer for the 150-year-old chess-based n-queens problem. An article on the n-queens problem and its answer is in The Harvard Gazette. The paper "The number of n-queens configurations" is available on...
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2022 doctoral candidate Alexander Petrov has been awarded a prestigious five year Clay Research Fellowship for his work on number theory. Petrov was advised by Mark Kisin. Clay Research Fellows are selected for their research achievements and their potential to...
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Professors Lauren Williams and Melanie Matchett Wood have both been asked to give invited talks at the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) to take place in Saint Petersburg, Russia in July 2022. Professor Williams will give an Invited Lecture...
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Michael Hopkins--Department Chair and George Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics--has been awarded the American Mathematical Society's Oscar Veblen Prize in Geometry for co-authorship of the paper “On the nonexistence of elements of Kervaire invariant one” along with his...
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