Tag: Department of Mathematics

  • Campus & Community

    Using math as bridge within disciplines

    Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications welcomes new director, a Harvard alum who will explore “beautiful, deep” interactions between mathematics and science.

    3–4 minutes
    Dan Freed.
  • Campus & Community

    STEM takes a knee for reflection and reckoning

    Harvard Science takes part in #ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, and #Strike4BlackLives

    6–9 minutes
    Empty bio lab.
  • Health

    It all adds up

    New mathematical modeling by scientists from Harvard and other institutions reinforces the view of cancer as a complex culmination of many mutations.

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Mathematician Sophie Morel:

    Sophie Morel turned 30 on December 16 of last year, the day after she was appointed a professor of mathematics in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. How to explain this impressive achievement by such a young person? Benedict H. Gross ’71, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of…

    3–5 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Huybers and Mahadevan named MacArthur Foundation Fellows

    Two Harvard faculty members who study present and past ice sheets and the science behind familiar objects and everyday events have been named recipients of prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius” grants. This year’s awards, announced today by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, go to Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Peter Huybers…

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    Snaring secrets of the Venus flytrap

    While “speed” is not a word most people associate with the plant kingdom, the Venus flytrap closes its v-shaped leaves in just one-tenth of a second – fast enough to accomplish a feat thousands if not millions of backyard barbecuers fail at each summer: snaring a fly. So how can a plant pull this off?…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Harvard undergraduate discovers novel atomic cluster

    Eighteen-year-old Kevin Chan, a member of the Harvard College Class of 2004, used a supercomputer to discover a novel arrangement of atoms that had been missed by other scientists studying such clusters. Chan made the unexpected discovery in late June 2001 while working on a summer project at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). Chan,…

    1–2 minutes