CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Shiing-Shen Chern as a Great Geometer of 20th Century
Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard) Title: Shiing-Shen Chern as a Great Geometer of 20th Century Video | Slides | Article
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Beginning in Spring 2020, the CMSA began hosting a lecture series on literature in the mathematical sciences, with a focus on significant developments in mathematics that have influenced the discipline, and the lifetime accomplishments of significant scholars.
Written articles accompany lectures in this series and will be available as part of the publication The Literature and History of Mathematical Science.
Volume 1: Literature and History of Mathematical Science is now in print and available.
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: The ADHM construction of Yang-Mills instantons
Simon Donaldson (Stony Brook) Title: The ADHM construction of Yang-Mills instantons Abstract: In 1978 (Physics Letters 65A) Atiyah, Hitchin, Drinfeld and Manin (ADHM) described a construction of the general solution of […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Why do some universities have separate departments of statistics?
Donald Rubin (Harvard) Title: Why do some universities have separate departments of statistics? And are they all anachronisms, destined to follow the path of other dinosaurs? Video | Slides
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Rationality questions in algebraic geometry
Joe Harris (Harvard) Title: Rationality questions in algebraic geometry Abstract: Over the course of the history of algebraic geometry, rationality questions — motivated by both geometric and arithmetic problems — have often driven […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Quantum Groups
Pavel Etingof (MIT) Title: Quantum Groups Abstract: The theory of quantum groups developed in mid 1980s from attempts to construct and understand solutions of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation, an important equation arising in […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Black Hole Formation
Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan) Title: Black Hole Formation Abstract: Can black holes form through the focusing of gravitational waves? This was an outstanding question since the early days of general relativity. […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: My life and times with the sporadic simple groups
Robert Griess (University of Michigan) Title: My life and times with the sporadic simple groups Abstract: Five sporadic simple groups were proposed in 19th century and 21 additional ones arose during […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: From string theory and Moonshine to vertex algebras
Bong Lian (Brandeis) Title: From string theory and Moonshine to vertex algebras Abstract: This is a brief survey of the early historical development of vertex algebras, beginning in the seventies from Physics […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Four-dimensional topology
Ciprian Manolescu (Stanford) Title: Four-dimensional topology Abstract: I will outline the history of four-dimensional topology. Some major events were the work of Donaldson and Freedman from 1982, and the introduction of […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Hodge structures and the topology of algebraic varieties
Claire Voisin (Collège de France) Title: Hodge structures and the topology of algebraic varieties Abstract: We review the major progress made since the 50’s in our understanding of the topology of complex […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Area-minimizing integral currents and their regularity
Camillo De Lellis (IAS) Title: Area-minimizing integral currents and their regularity Abstract: Caccioppoli sets and integral currents (their generalization in higher codimension) were introduced in the late fifties and early sixties to […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: From Deep Learning to Deep Understanding
Harry Shum (Tsinghua University) Title: From Deep Learning to Deep Understanding Abstract: In this talk I will discuss a couple of research directions for robust AI beyond deep neural networks. The first is […]