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Scientific Board
Shing-Tung Yau, Director of CMSA
Office: Science Center 340Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Differential geometry, partial differential equations, topology, and mathematical
physics.
Cynthia Dwork, SEAS
Office: Maxwell Dworkin 349 Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Theory of computation, information and society, science and technology
policy.
Michael Hopkins, Dept of Mathematics
Office: Science Center 508Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Algebraic topology.
Lauren Williams, Dept of Mathematics
Office: Science Center 510Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Algebras and tropical geometry.
Hugh Woodin, Dept of Mathematics
Office: Science Center 513Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Logic and foundations of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of
mathematics, set theory.
Cumrun Vafa, Dept of Physics
Office: Jefferson 467Email: [email protected] interests: String theory.
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Math-Physics Board
Shing-Tung Yau, Director of CMSA
Office: Science Center 340Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Differential geometry, partial differential equations, topology, and mathematical
physics.
Clifford Taubes, Dept of Mathematics
Office: Science Center 504Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Differential geometry, modelling differential equations, gauge field theory.
Cumrun Vafa, Dept of Physics
Office: Jefferson 467Email: [email protected] interests: String theory.
Xi Yin, Dept of Physics
Office: Jefferson 570Email: [email protected]
Research interests: String theory.
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Wei Gu
Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 8/31/2020Office: 116Email: [email protected]: 5-0703
Ph.D.: Viriginia TechFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: String Theory, Topological Field Theory, Mirror Symmetry.
Shuliang Bai
Appointment duration: 9/1/2018 - 12/31/2019Office: Room 109Email: [email protected]: 6-7495
Ph.D.: University of South CarolinaFaculty sponsor: S.T. YauResearch interests: Graph theory, combinatorics, spectral graph theory, extremal problems on hypergraphs and posets, partially ordered sets, graph-coloring, probabilistic methods, algebraic graph theory.
Aghil Alaee
Appointment duration: 8/1/2018 - 5/31/2020Office: 115Email: [email protected]: 6-7485
Ph.D.: Memorial University of NewfoundlandFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Differential geometry and geometric inequalities, general relativity(GR) and black holes, partial differential equations.
Enno Keßler
Appointment duration: 11/01/2018-10/31/2020Office: 115Email: [email protected]: 6-7485
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for MathematicsResearch Interests: Geometric description of supersymmetric sigma models.
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Kyle Luh
Appointment duration: 7/1/2018 - 6/30/2020Office: 106Email: [email protected]: 6-7482
Ph.D.: Yale UniversityFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung Yau , Horng-Tzer YauResearch interests: Random matrix theory, random graphs and probabilistic combinatorics.
Tsung-Ju Lee
Appointment duration: 9/01/2018 - 8/31/2020Office: 109Email: [email protected]: 6-7495
Affiliation: National Taiwan UniversityResearch interests: Agebraic geometry.
Rongxiao Mi
Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 8/31/2020Office: 116Email: [email protected]: 5-0703
Ph.D.: Unviersity of MichiganFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Algebraic geometry.
Du Pei
Appointment duration:1/01/2020 - 12/31/2020 Office: 107Email: [email protected]: 5-4916
Ph.D.: CaltechFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Invariants of 3- and 4-manifolds, Higgs bundles, mirror symmetry, categorification, conformal field theory and TQFT, dynamics of, supersymmetric gauge theories, various other topics in mathematical physics.
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Bogdan Stoica
Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 8/31/2020Office: 115Email: [email protected]: 6-7485
Ph.D.: CaltechFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch Interests: Interface of gravity, quantum field theory and information theory.
Ryan Thorngren
Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 8/31/2020Office: 106Email: [email protected]: 6-7482
Ph.D.: UC BerkeleyFaculty Sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Mathematical physics.
Yun Shi
Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 8/31/2020Office:116 Email: [email protected]: 5-0703
Ph.D.: University of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Algebraic geometry, Donaldson-Thomas theory, Pandharipande-Thomas theory.
Sergiy Verstyuk
Appointment duration: 10/01/2018 - 09/30/2020Office: 107Email: [email protected]: 617-496-7485
Ph.D.: University of ChicagoFaculty sponsor: Scott KominersResearch interests: Economics
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Yifan Wang
Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 8/31/2021Office: 116 Email: [email protected]: 5-0703
Ph.D.: MITFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: String theory, supersymmetric and conformal quantum field theories, scattering amplitudes,holographic dualities, integrable systems, mathematical physics.
Tianqi Wu
Appointment duration: 2/01/2019 - 1/31/2020Office: 115Email: [email protected]: 6-7485
Ph.D.: NYUFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Discrete and computational geometry, complex analysis, discrete riemamm surfaces, and coupled dynamical systems on networks
Juven Wang
Appointment duration: 8/01/2019 - 7/31/2022Office: 107 Email: [email protected]: 5-4916
Ph.D.: MITFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Theoretical physics, condensed matter physics, mathematical physics.
Yingying Wu
Appointment duration: 1/1/2020 - 7/30/2020Email: [email protected]
Ph.D.: UT AustinFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung Yau
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Xiaojue Zhu
Appointment duration: 10/01/2018 - 9/30/2020Office: 109Email: [email protected]: 6-7495
Ph.D.: University of TwenteFaculty sponsor: Michael BrennerResearch interests: Fluid mechanics.
Yang Zhou
Appointment duration: 7/01/2018 - 6/30/2021Office: 109Email: [email protected] : 6-7495
Ph.D.: Stanford UniversityFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung Yau
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Research Visitors
Sang “Peter” Chin
Appointment duration: 1/12/2017 - 8/30/2020Email: [email protected]: 110Phone: 410-507-8558
Affiliation: Boston UniversityResearch Interests: Differential Geometry, General Relativity, String Theory, Game Theory, Compressive Sensing, Quantum Computing.
Nima Arkani Hamed
Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 12/31/2019Email: [email protected]: 202
Affiliation: IASResearch Interests: Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics.
Jin Cao Appointment duration: 10/01/2019 - 10/10/2019Email: [email protected]: G14Phone: 384-8699
Affiliation: TsinghuaResearch interests: Algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, algebraic K-theory, elliptic motives, algebraic cycles.
Yuewen Chen Appointment duration: 10/15/19 - 10/14/2020Email: [email protected]: 115Phone: 6-7485
Affiliation: University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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David Xianfeng Gu
Appointment duration: 4/01/2019 - 3/31/2020Email: [email protected]
Affiliation: Stony BrookResearch interests: Computational conformal geometry.
Zhengping Gui
Appointment duration: 9/15/2019 - 1/15/2020Email: [email protected]: 115Phone: 6-7485
Affiliation: TsinghuaResearch interests: Geometry and Topology
Research Visitors
Bill Helton
Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 11/30/2019Email: [email protected]: 207
Affiliation: University of California San DiegoResearch interests: Equations and inequalities for functions having matrix variables.
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Charles Doran
Appointment duration: 7/01/2019 - 6/30/2020Email: [email protected]: G06Phone: 6-8903
Affiliation: University of AlbertaResearch Interests: Geometry, Topology, and Number Theory.
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Research Visitors
An HuangAppointment duration: 1/01/2019 - 12/31/2020Office: 203Email: [email protected]: 6-3073
Affiliation: Brandeis UniversityResearch interests: D-modules, period integrals, mirror symmetry, Hodge theory, arithmetic geometry, and their interconnections.
Spiro Karigiannis
Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 12/31/2019Office: G07Email: [email protected] Phone: 4-8680
Affiliation: University of WaterlooResearch interests: Differential geometry and geometric analysis.
Igor Klep
Appointment duration:9/01/2019 - 11/30/2019Office: G07Email: [email protected]: 4-8680
Affiliation: University of LjubljanaResearch interests: Differential Geometry.
Yong LinAppointment duration: 8/01/2019 - 8/31/2019 Office: G08Email: [email protected]: 6-7495
Affiliation: National Taiwan University
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John Loftin
Appointment duration: 10/17/2019 - 12/17/2020Office: G08Phone: 4-8694
Affiliation: RutgersResearch interests: Geometric analysis and affine projective geometry.
Linyuan Lu
Appointment duration: 8/05/2019 - 8/14/2019
Affiliation: USCResearch interests: Large information networks, probabilistic methods, spectral graph theory, random graphs, extremal problems on hypergraphs and posets, algorithms, and graph theory.
Research Visitors
Hossein MovasatiAppointment duration: 10/01/2019 - 10/10/2019Office: G07Email: [email protected]: 304-8680
Affiliation: IMPAResearch Interests: Complex Algebraic Geometry, Hodge Theory, Calabi-Yau Varieties, Mirror Symmetry (B-model), Modular and Automorphic Forms, Algebro-Geometric Aspects of Differential Equations, Holomorphic Foliations.
Armando Cabrera Pacheco
Appointment duration: 8/02/2019 - 8/28/2019
Affiliation: University of TübingenResearch interests: Differential geometry and mathematical relativity.
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Artan Sheshmani
Appointment duration: 08-31/2019 – 02/28/2020Office: Room 207Email: [email protected]
Affiliation: Aarhus University (Denmark)Research interests: Gromov Witten/Donaldson Thomas theory, Calabi-Yau geometries, mathematical aspects of String Theory
Valentino Tosatti
Appointment duration: 7/01/2019 - 6/30/2020Office: 203Email: [email protected]
Affiliation: NorthwesternResearch interests: Differential geometry, geometric analysis, complex algebraic geometry, and partial differential equations.
Research Visitors
Karolina Vocke
Appointment duration: 9/04/2019 - 9/21/2019
Affiliation: University of InnsbruckResearch interests: Financial Mathematics
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Zhiyu Wang
Appointment duration: 8/05/2019 - 8/14/2019
Affiliation: University of South CarolinaResearch interests: Probabilistic and extremal combinatorics, spectral graph theory, extremal set theory, applications of combinatorics to theoretical computer science, probabilistic graphical models, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics.
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Research Visitors
Ruth Williams
Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 11/30/2019Email: [email protected]: 207
Affiliation: UCSDResearch interests: Mathematical Biology, Noncommutative Real Algebraic Geometry.
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Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics, Total Positivity and Motives — Organizers
Alexander Postnikov
Email: [email protected]: MIT
Lauren Williams
Email: [email protected]: Harvard
Nima Arkani Hamed
Email: [email protected]: IAS
Thomas Lam
Email: [email protected]: University of Michigan
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Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics, Total Positivity and Motives — Visitors
Jacob BourjailyNiels Bohr Institute9/1/2019 – 12/15/2019
Francis Brown All Souls College, Oxford9/15/2019 – 9/20/2019
Simon Caron-HuotMcGill University9/30/2019 – 10/04/2019
Lance DixonStanford University9/9/2019 – 9/20/2019
Charles DoranUniversity of Alberta10/19/2019 – 11/1/2019
James DrummondUniversity of Southampton10/14/2019 – 10/18/2019
Livia FerroUniversity of Hertfordshire10/27/2019 – 11/9/2019
Sergey Fomin University of Michigan10/6/2019 – 10/16/2019
Sebastian FrancoThe City College of New York10/9/2019 – 10/19/2019
Hadleigh FrostUniversity of Oxford9/15/2019 – 12/20/2019
Michael GreenUniversity of Cambridge10/05/2019 – 10/13/2019
Alexander Goncharov Yale University12/05/2019 – 12/20/2019
Song He Perimeter Institute9/29/2019 – 11/10/2019
Enrico HerrmannStanford10/27/2019 – 11/9/2019
Yutin HuangNational Taiwan University9/30/2019 – 10/12/2019
Steven KarpUniversity of Michigan10/11/2019 – 11/03/2019
Tomasz Lukowski University of Hertfordshire10/27/2019 – 11/11/2019
Andrew McLeodNeils Bohr Institute10/6/2019 – 10/19/2019 & 11/3/2019 – 11/16/2019
Sebastian MizeraPerimeter Institute10/28/2019 – 11/1/2019
Erik Panzer All Souls College, Oxford9/15/2019 – 9/25/2019
Matteo Parisi University of Oxford10/26/2019 – 11/10/2019
Pasha Pylyavskyy University of Minnesota 9/8/2019 – 9/22/201910/14/2019 – 11/1/2019
Junjie RaoMax Planck Institute 10/21/2019 – 11/03/2019
Giulio Salvatori University of Milan9/3/2019 – 12/15/2019
Michael ShapiroMichigan State University10/27/2019 – 11/2/2019
David SpeyerUniversity of Michigan10/14/2019 – 10/18/2019
Hugh ThomasUniversité du Québec à Montréal10/27/2019 – 11/22/2019
Jaroslav TrnkaUC Davis9/30/2019 – 10/04/2019, 10/28/2019 – 11/01/2019, 11/18/2019 – 11/22/2019
Matthias VolkNeils Bohr Institute10/14/2019 – 10/25/2019
Matthew von HippelNeils Bohr Institute 11/11/2019 – 11/22/2019
Pierre VanhoveInstitut de Physique Théorique10/6/2019 – 10/17/2019
Matthias WilhelmNeils Bohr Institute 10/14/2019 – 10/25/2019
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Xiao-Gang Wen
Email: [email protected]: MIT
Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Organizers
Juven Wang
Email: [email protected]: Harvard CMSA/IAS Princeton
Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Visitors
Xie Chen Caltech
Clay Cordova IAS
Robert Gompf UT Austin
Po-Shen HsinCaltech
Anton KapustinCaltech
Ryohei KobayashiUniversity of Tokyo
Zohar Komargodski Stonybrook
Kantaro OhmoriIAS
Erich PoppitzUniversity of Toronto
Michael PretkoUC Boulder
Yuya TanizakiNC State University
David TongUniversity of Cambridge
Chong WangPerimeter Institute
Yizhuang YouUCSD
Ashvin Vishwanath
Email: [email protected]: Harvard
Shing-Tung Yau, Director of CMSA
Email: [email protected]: Harvard
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Igor Klep
Email: [email protected]: University of Ljubljana
Ruth Williams
Email: [email protected]: UCSD
Noncommutative Analysis in Geometry and PhysicsOrganizers
William Helton
Email: [email protected]: UCSD
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Administrative and Financial Staff
Administrative and Research Operations (including IT and seminars): Sarah LaBauve
Title: AdministratorOffice: Garden St Room 103Office phone: 617-496-5421Email: [email protected]
Financial Operations:
Gaby Leon-Guerrero
Title: Financial AssociateOffice: Garden St Room 103Office phone: 617-495-5615Email: [email protected]
Administrative and Operations Management:
Irene Minder
Title: Director of Administration and FinanceOffice: Science Center 329Office phone: 617-495-2170Email: [email protected]
Financial Management:
Anna Kreslavskaya
Title: Manager of Research and FinanceOffice: Science Center 320Office phone: 617-495-1946Email: [email protected]
Tatyana Bogaevsky
Title: Staff AssistantOffice: Garden St Room 105Office phone: 617-496-1778Email: [email protected]
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Administrative and Financial Staff
Ryan Maloney
Title: Editorial AssistantOffice: Garden St. Room 105Office Phone: 617-496-7132Email: [email protected]
Editorial:
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CMSA AffiliatesBoaz BarakGordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied [email protected]
Melissa FranklinMallinckrodt Professor of PhysicsHarvard University Department of [email protected]
Richard FreemanHerbert Ascherman Professor of EconomicsHarvard University Department of [email protected]
Rebecca HendersonJohn and Natty McArthur University ProfessorHarvard Business [email protected]
An HuangAssistant ProfessorBrandeis [email protected]
Scott KominersJunior FellowHarvard Society of Fellows [email protected]
Shingchang Samuel Kou Professor of StatisticsHarvard University Department of [email protected]
Vijay KuchrooSamuel L. Wasserstrom Professor of NeurologyDirector of the Evergrande Center for Immunologic DiseasesHarvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s [email protected]
Bong LianProfessorBrandeis [email protected]
Jeff LichtmanJeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular BiologySantiago Ramón y Cajal Professor of Arts and SciencesHarvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular [email protected]
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CMSA Affiliates
Abraham LoebFrank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of ScienceChair, Astronomy DepartmentDirector, Institute for Theory and ComputationHarvard University Department of [email protected]
Lakshminarayanan MahadevanLola England de Valpine Professor of Applied MathematicsProfessor of Organismic and Evolutionary BiologyProfessor of PhysicsHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied [email protected]
Eric MaskinAdams University ProfessorHarvard University Department of [email protected]
Andrew StromingerGwill E. York Professor of PhysicsHarvard University Department of [email protected]
Madhu SudanGordon McKay Professor of Computer ScienceHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied [email protected]
Vahid TarokhPerkins Professor of Applied Mathematics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow of Electrical EngineeringHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied [email protected]
Salil VadhanVicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied MathematicsHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied [email protected]
Cumrun VafaDonner Professor of ScienceHarvard University Department of [email protected]
Leslie ValiantT. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied MathematicsHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied [email protected]
Xi YinProfessor of Physics Harvard University Department of [email protected]
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Advisory Board Members
Michael BerryProfessor of Physics (Emeritus)University of [email protected]
Demetrios ChristodoulouProfessor of Mathematics and PhysicsSwiss Federal Institute of Technology [email protected]
Stanley OsherProfessor of Mathematics & Director of Applied MathematicsUniversity of California, Los AngelesDirector of Special Projects, Institute for Pure and Applied [email protected]
Daniel A. SpielmanProfessor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Applied MathematicsDepartment of Computer ScienceYale University [email protected]
Howard StoneProfessor in Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringPrinceton [email protected]
S.R. Srinivasa VaradhanProfessor, Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesNew York [email protected]
Jeff WuProfessor in Engineering StatisticsSchool of Industrial and Systems EngineeringGeorgia Institute of [email protected]
Jie XiaoProfessor, Department of Mathematical SciencesTsinghua [email protected]
Zhou Ping XinProfessor, Institute of Mathematics ScienceChinese University of Hong [email protected]
Lo YangVice Director of Academic Committee, Morningside Center of MathematicsChinese Academy of [email protected]