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Academic Year 2019-2020

Directory

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Scientific Board

Shing-Tung Yau, Director of CMSA

Office: Science Center 340Email: yau@math.harvard.edu

Research interests: Differential geometry, partial differential equations, topology, and mathematical

physics.

Cynthia Dwork, SEAS

Office: Maxwell Dworkin 349 Email: dwork@seas.harvard.edu

Research interests: Theory of computation, information and society, science and technology

policy.

Michael Hopkins, Dept of Mathematics

Office: Science Center 508Email: mjh@math.harvard.edu

Research interests: Algebraic topology.

Lauren Williams, Dept of Mathematics

Office: Science Center 510Email: williams@math.harvard.edu

Research interests: Algebras and tropical geometry.

Hugh Woodin, Dept of Mathematics

Office: Science Center 513Email: woodin@math.harvard.edu

Research interests: Logic and foundations of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of

mathematics, set theory.

Cumrun Vafa, Dept of Physics

Office: Jefferson 467Email: vafa@physics.harvard.eduResearch interests: String theory.

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Math-Physics Board

Shing-Tung Yau, Director of CMSA

Office: Science Center 340Email: yau@math.harvard.edu

Research interests: Differential geometry, partial differential equations, topology, and mathematical

physics.

Clifford Taubes, Dept of Mathematics

Office: Science Center 504Email: yau@math.harvard.edu

Research interests: Differential geometry, modelling differential equations, gauge field theory.

Cumrun Vafa, Dept of Physics

Office: Jefferson 467Email: vafa@physics.harvard.eduResearch interests: String theory.

Xi Yin, Dept of Physics

Office: Jefferson 570Email: xiyin@fas.harvard.edu

Research interests: String theory.

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Wei Gu

Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 8/31/2020Office: 116Email: weigu@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: sbai525@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: aghil.alaee@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: ek@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: kluh@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: tjlee@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 6-7495

Affiliation: National Taiwan UniversityResearch interests: Agebraic geometry.

Rongxiao Mi

Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 8/31/2020Office: 116Email: rongxiao@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: dpei@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: bstoica@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: ryan.thorngren@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: yshi@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: verstyuk@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: yifanw@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: tianqi@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: jw@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: ywu@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

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: xzhu@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 6-7495

Ph.D.: University of TwenteFaculty sponsor: Michael BrennerResearch interests: Fluid mechanics.

Yang Zhou

Appointment duration: 7/01/2018 - 6/30/2021Office: 109Email: yangzhou@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone : 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: peter.chin@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduOffice: 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: arkani@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduOffice: 202

Affiliation: IASResearch Interests: Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics.

Jin Cao Appointment duration: 10/01/2019 - 10/10/2019Email: caojin@mail.tsinghua.edu.cnOffice: 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: yuewen_chen@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduOffice: 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: gu@cmsa.harvard.edu

Affiliation: Stony BrookResearch interests: Computational conformal geometry.

Zhengping Gui

Appointment duration: 9/15/2019 - 1/15/2020Email: zhengping@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduOffice: 115Phone: 6-7485

Affiliation: TsinghuaResearch interests: Geometry and Topology

Research Visitors

Bill Helton

Appointment duration: 9/01/2019 - 11/30/2019Email: helton@ucsd.eduOffice: 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: doran@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduOffice: 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: anuang@brandeis.eduPhone: 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: karigiannis@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu Phone: 4-8680

Affiliation: University of WaterlooResearch interests: Differential geometry and geometric analysis.

Igor Klep

Appointment duration:9/01/2019 - 11/30/2019Office: G07Email: igor.klep@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 4-8680

Affiliation: University of LjubljanaResearch interests: Differential Geometry.

Yong LinAppointment duration: 8/01/2019 - 8/31/2019 Office: G08Email: ylin@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: hossein@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduPhone: 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: artan@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

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: tosatti@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

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: rjwilliams@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduOffice: 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: apost@math.mit.eduInstitution: MIT

Lauren Williams

Email: williams@math.harvard.eduInstitution: Harvard

Nima Arkani Hamed

Email: arkani@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduInstitution: IAS

Thomas Lam

Email: tfylam@umich.eduInstitution: 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: xgwen@mit.eduInstitution: MIT

Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Organizers

Juven Wang

Email: jw@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduInstitution: 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: ashvin_vishwanath@fas.harvard.eduInstitution: Harvard

Shing-Tung Yau, Director of CMSA

Email: yau@math.harvard.eduInstitution: Harvard

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Igor Klep

Email: igor.klep@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduInstitution: University of Ljubljana

Ruth Williams

Email: rjwilliams@cmsa.fas.harvard.eduInstitution: UCSD

Noncommutative Analysis in Geometry and PhysicsOrganizers

William Helton

Email: helton@uscd.eduInstitution: 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: slabauve@math.harvard.edu

Financial Operations:

Gaby Leon-Guerrero

Title: Financial AssociateOffice: Garden St Room 103Office phone: 617-495-5615Email: gaby@math.harvard.edu

Administrative and Operations Management:

Irene Minder

Title: Director of Administration and FinanceOffice: Science Center 329Office phone: 617-495-2170Email: irene@math.harvard.edu

Financial Management:

Anna Kreslavskaya

Title: Manager of Research and FinanceOffice: Science Center 320Office phone: 617-495-1946Email: kreslavs@math.harvard.edu

Tatyana Bogaevsky

Title: Staff AssistantOffice: Garden St Room 105Office phone: 617-496-1778Email: bogaevsky@math.harvard.edu

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Administrative and Financial Staff

Ryan Maloney

Title: Editorial AssistantOffice: Garden St. Room 105Office Phone: 617-496-7132Email: rmaloney@math.harvard.edu

Editorial:

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CMSA AffiliatesBoaz BarakGordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciencesboaz@seas.harvard.edu

Melissa FranklinMallinckrodt Professor of PhysicsHarvard University Department of Physicsfranklin@physics.harvard.edu

Richard FreemanHerbert Ascherman Professor of EconomicsHarvard University Department of Economicsfreeman@nber.org

Rebecca HendersonJohn and Natty McArthur University ProfessorHarvard Business Schoolrhenderson@hbs.edu

An HuangAssistant ProfessorBrandeis Universityanhuang@brandeis.edu

Scott KominersJunior FellowHarvard Society of Fellows kominers@fas.harvard.edu

Shingchang Samuel Kou Professor of StatisticsHarvard University Department of Statisticskou@stat.harvard.edu

Vijay KuchrooSamuel L. Wasserstrom Professor of NeurologyDirector of the Evergrande Center for Immunologic DiseasesHarvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospitalvkuchroo@evergrande.hms.harvard.edu

Bong LianProfessorBrandeis Universitylian@brandeis.edu

Jeff LichtmanJeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular BiologySantiago Ramón y Cajal Professor of Arts and SciencesHarvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biologyjeff@mcb.harvard.edu

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CMSA Affiliates

Abraham LoebFrank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of ScienceChair, Astronomy DepartmentDirector, Institute for Theory and ComputationHarvard University Department of Astronomyaloeb@cfa.harvard.edu

Lakshminarayanan MahadevanLola England de Valpine Professor of Applied MathematicsProfessor of Organismic and Evolutionary BiologyProfessor of PhysicsHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Scienceslm@seas.harvard.edu

Eric MaskinAdams University ProfessorHarvard University Department of Economicsemaskin@fas.harvard.edu

Andrew StromingerGwill E. York Professor of PhysicsHarvard University Department of Physicsstrominger@physics.harvard.edu

Madhu SudanGordon McKay Professor of Computer ScienceHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciencesmadhu@cs.harvard.edu

Vahid TarokhPerkins Professor of Applied Mathematics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow of Electrical EngineeringHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciencesvahid@seas.harvard.edu

Salil VadhanVicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied MathematicsHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciencessalil@seas.harvard.edu

Cumrun VafaDonner Professor of ScienceHarvard University Department of PhysicsVafa@physicsharvard.edu

Leslie ValiantT. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied MathematicsHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciencesvaliant@seas.harvard.edu

Xi YinProfessor of Physics Harvard University Department of Physicsxiyin@fas.harvard.edu

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Advisory Board Members

Michael BerryProfessor of Physics (Emeritus)University of Bristolasymptotico@bristol.ac.uk

Demetrios ChristodoulouProfessor of Mathematics and PhysicsSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurichdemetri@math.ethz.ch

Stanley OsherProfessor of Mathematics & Director of Applied MathematicsUniversity of California, Los AngelesDirector of Special Projects, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematicssjo@math.ucla.edu

Daniel A. SpielmanProfessor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Applied MathematicsDepartment of Computer ScienceYale University spileman@cs.yale.edu

Howard StoneProfessor in Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringPrinceton Universityhastone@princeton.edu

S.R. Srinivasa VaradhanProfessor, Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesNew York Universityvaradhan@cims.nyu.edu

Jeff WuProfessor in Engineering StatisticsSchool of Industrial and Systems EngineeringGeorgia Institute of Technologyjeff.wu@isye.gatech.edu

Jie XiaoProfessor, Department of Mathematical SciencesTsinghua Universityjxiao@math.tsinghua.edu.cn

Zhou Ping XinProfessor, Institute of Mathematics ScienceChinese University of Hong Kongzpxin@cuhk.edu.hk

Lo YangVice Director of Academic Committee, Morningside Center of MathematicsChinese Academy of Sciencesyanglo@math.ac.cn

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