Less than a year ago, a Harvard math professor joined a handful of world-leading scholars on an ambitious experiment designed to better define the capabilities of AI systems and delineate...
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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 "foundational work on representation theory,...
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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...
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Harvard Mathematics professor Melanie Matchett Wood has joined an independent group of nine mathematicians that will advise OpenAI and other AI companies on how to responsibly release mathematical results, the...
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Mihnea Popa was appointed the Karen and Farhad Nanji Family Professor of Mathematics. This newly established professorship is intended to be “awarded to...
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This is a story about keeping the faith in a discipline not exactly known for its religiosity: mathematics. The field of arithmetic statistics — the study of statistical patterns in...
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The International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) has awarded the 2026 Shiing-Shen Chern Medal in Mathematics to Harvard Merton Professor of Mathematics Horng-Tzer Yau. Yau was chosen for his groundbreaking...
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