CMSA Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott | Daniel Litt, Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitor, Harvard Mathematics Department

Name: CMSA Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott | Daniel Litt, Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitor, Harvard Mathematics Department
Start: 2026-10-21T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-10-21T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Science Center Hall D

CMSA EVENTS

When: October 21, 2026

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Where: Science Center Hall D

Address: 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott | Daniel Litt, Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitor, Harvard Mathematics Department

October 19, 2026 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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Dates: October 19 & 21, 2026

Time: 4:00–5:00 pm ET

Location: Science Center Lecture Hall D and via Webinar

Speaker: Daniel Litt, Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitor, Harvard Mathematics Department

Lecture 1: Monday, October 19, 2026, followed by a reception in the Math Dept Austine & Chilton McDonnell Common Room, 4th floor

Lecture 2: Wednesday, October 21, 2026

See CMSA event webpage for more details.

Harvard Mathematics Professor Raoul Bott (1923 – 2005), was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous foundational contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse–Bott functions which he used in this context, and the Borel–Bott–Weil theorem.