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Academic Year 2020 - 2021

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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Postdoctoral Fellows

Wei Gu

Appointment duration: 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2021Email: weigu@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: Viriginia TechFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: String Theory, Topological Field Theory, Mirror Symmetry, Theoretical Physics

Omri Ben-Eliezer

Appointment duration: 9/10/2020 - 8/31/2021Email: omribene@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: Tel Aviv UniversityFaculty sponsor: Madhu SudanResearch interests: Theoretical computer science

Kenji Kawaguchi

Appointment duration: 9/01/2020 - 6/30/2021Email: kk@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: MITFaculty sponsor: Horng-Tzer YauResearch interests: Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning theory, Deep Learning theory

Daniel Junghans

Appointment duration: 10/1/2020 - 9/30/2021Email: djunghans@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: Leibniz Universitaet HannoverFaculty sponsor: Cumrun VafaResearch interests: Mathematical physics, quantum graphs, and spectral geometry; string theory

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Tsung-Ju Lee

Appointment duration: 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2021Email: tjlee@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: National Taiwan UniversityFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Agebraic geometry

Yoosik Kim

Appointment duration: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021Email: yoosik@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin at MadisonFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: symplectic geometry, Floer theory, mirror symmetry, and integrable systems

Enno Keßler

Appointment duration: 11/1/2020 - 4/30/2021Email: ek@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for MathematicsFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch Interests: Geometric description of supersymmetric sigma models; Super Geometry, Super Riemann Surfaces

Moran Koren

Appointment duration: 9/1/2020 - 12/31/2021Email: mkoren@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyFaculty sponsor: Scott KominersResearch interests: Math finance and economics; Market Design

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Du Pei

Appointment duration: 1/1/2020 - 12/31/2020Email: dpei@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

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

Rongxiao Mi

Appointment duration: 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2021Email: rongxiao@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: Unviersity of MichiganFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Algebraic geometry

Jue Liu

Appointment duration: 1/1/2021 - 12/31/2021

Ph.D.: Sun Yat-sen UniversityFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Geometric analysis

Kan Lin

Appointment duration: 2/1/2021 - 1/31/2022

Ph.D.: University of TokyoFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Financial Math, Fintech

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Ryan Thorngren

Appointment duration: 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2021Email: ryan.thorngren@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: UC BerkeleyFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Quantum condensed matter system and high energy theory; mathematical physics, topological phases of matter

Michael Simkin

Appointment duration: 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2021Email: msimkin@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: Hebrew University of Jerusalem IsraelFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Combinatorics; Probabilistic Combinatorics

Yun Shi

Appointment duration: 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2021Email: yshi@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: University of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Algebraic Geometry, Donaldson-Thomas theory, Pandharipande-Thomas theory, stability conditions

Itamar Shamir

Appointment duration: 10/1/2020 - 9/31/2021Email: ishamir@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: Weizmann Institute of ScienceFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Supersymmetry and high energy; Boundary conformal field theory, BH entropy through localization

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Tianqi Wu

Appointment duration: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021Email: tianqi@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: NYUFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Discrete and computational geometry, complex analysis, discrete riemamm surfaces, and coupled dynamical systems on networks

Yifan Wang

Appointment duration: 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2021Email: yifanw@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: MITFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: String theory, supersymmetric and conformal quantum field theories, scattering amplitudes,holographic dualities, integrable systems, mathematical physics

Juven Wang

Appointment duration: 8/1/2020 - 7/14/2021Email: jw@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: MITFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Ultra Unification, Theoretical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Quantum Field Theory

Sergiy Verstyuk

Appointment duration: 10/1/2020 - 9/30/2021Email: verstyuk@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: University of ChicagoFaculty sponsor: Scott KominersResearch interests: Econometrics and quantitative economics; Economics, Finance, Machine Learning

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Yang Zhou

Appointment duration: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021Email: yangzhou@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: Stanford UniversityFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung YauResearch interests: Algebraic geometry

Changji Xu

Appointment duration: 8/1/2020 - 7/31/2021Email: cxu@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: University of ChicagoFaculty sponsor: Horng-Tzer YauResearch interests: Probability theory

Thérèse (Yingying) Wu

Appointment duration: 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2021Email: ywu@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D.: UT AustinFaculty sponsor: Shing-Tung Yau Research interests: Graph cohomology, Comparison Theorems of Phylogenetic Spaces and Algebraic Fans; Differential Geometry and Mathematical Biology

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Research Visitors

Sang “Peter” Chin

Appointment duration: 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2021Email: peter.chin@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Affiliation: Boston UniversityResearch Interests: Differential Geometry, General Relativity, String Theory, Game Theory, Compressive Sensing, Quantum Computing; Theoretical Machine Learning, Extremal Graph Theory, Compressive Sampling Theory

Aghil Alaee

Appointment duration: 7/1/2020 - 6/31/2021Email: aghil.alaee@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Affiliation: Clark UniversityResearch interests: Differential geometry and geometric inequalities, general relativity(GR) and black holes, partial differential equations; Geometric analysis and mathematical relativity

Charles Doran

Appointment duration: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021Email: doran@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Affiliation: University of AlbertaResearch Interests: Geometry, Topology, and Number Theory; Calabi-Yau Geometry, Arithmetic, and Physics

Michael Douglas

Appointment duration: 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2021Email: mdouglas@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Affiliation: Stony Brook UniversityResearch interests: New technologies in mathematics; Computers and math; string theory

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Research Visitors

An Huang

Appointment duration: 1/01/2019 - 12/31/2020Email: anhuang@brandeis.edu

Affiliation: Brandeis UniversityResearch interests: D-modules, period integrals, mirror symmetry, Hodge theory, arithmetic geometry, and their interconnections

Bong Lian

Appointment duration: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021Email: lian@brandeis.edu

Affiliation: Brandeis UniversityResearch interests: Math physics, algebra, geometry

Louis (Wai-Tong) Fan

Appointment duration: 8/20/2020 - 1/11/2021Email: lfan@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Affiliation: Indiana University-BloomingtonResearch interests: Probability, mathematical biology and phylogenetics

Chien-Hao Liu

Appointment duration: 1/15/2020 - 1/14/2021Email: chienliu@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Affiliation: Harvard University

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Research Visitors

Valentino Tosatti

Appointment duration: 7/01/2020 - 6/30/2021Email: tosatti@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Affiliation: NorthwesternResearch interests: Differential geometry, geometric analysis, complex algebraic geometry, and partial differential equations

Yaakov VarshavskyAppointment duration: 2/1/2021 - 1/31/2022

Affiliation: Hebrew University of JerusalemResearch interests: research in geometric aspects of Langlands program, geometric representation theory, and arithmetic algebraic geometry

Artan Sheshmani

Email: artan@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

Affiliation: Aarhus University (Denmark)Research interests: Gromov Witten/Donaldson Thomas theory, Calabi-Yau geometries, mathematical aspects of String Theory

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Administrative and Financial Staff

Administrative and Research Operations (including IT and seminars): Alaina Fernandes

Title: AdministratorOffice: 20 Garden St Room 103Office phone: 617-496-5421Email: afernandes@math.harvard.edu

Financial Operations:

Gaby Leon-Guerrero

Title: Financial AssociateOffice: 20 Garden St Room 105Office 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: 20 Garden St Room 105Office phone: 617-496-1778Email: bogaevsky@math.harvard.edu

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Administrative and Financial Staff

Ryan Maloney

Title: Publications CoordinatorOffice: 20 Garden St. Room 103Office Phone: 617-496-7132Email: rmaloney@math.harvard.edu

Editorial:

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CMSA Affiliates

Boaz 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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