Summit on PhD Math Education in the Age of AI

OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS, CMSA EVENTS

When: September 17, 2026 - September 18, 2026
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St
Address: 20 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

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 of AI. We produced recommendations given in the report below. We hope they serve as a starting point for discussions in each department about how to evolve their program. We welcome feedback via email.

Organizers

  • Dan Freed
  • Joe Harris
  • Mark Kisin
  • Melanie Matchett Wood

Participants

  • Mohammed Abouzaid, Stanford Michael
  • Brenner, Harvard & Google
  • Ivan Corwin, Columbia
  • Sergey Fomin, UMich
  • Dan Freed, Harvard
  • Javier Gomez-Serrano, Brown
  • Larry Guth, MIT
  • Joe Harris, Harvard
  • Mark Kisin, Harvard
  • Bryna Kra, Northwestern
  • Daniel Litt, University of Toronto
  • Melanie Matchett Wood, Harvard
  • Curtis McMullen, Harvard
  • Assaf Naor, Princeton
  • Martin Olsson, UC Berkeley
  • Tim Perutz, UT Austin
  • Emily Riehl, Johns Hopkins
  • Raphaël Rouquier, UCLA
  • Thomas Scanlon, UC Berkeley
  • Gigliola Staffilani, MIT
  • Ravi Vakil, Stanford
  • Rachel Ward, U Texas
  • Lauren Williams, Harvard
  • Chenyang Xu, Princeton

We thank the group of graduate students and postdocs who participated in a panel and inspired us with their insights and perspectives.

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