Chair
As of July 1, 2013, the Chair of the Mathematics Department is
Peter Kronheimer. Contact information: Peter Kronheimer, Science Center, 3th Floor
5-55745,
[email protected]
Director of Undergraduate Studies
The director of Undergraduate Studies is
Jacob Lurie.
For questions about concentration in Mathematics, contact the
undergraduate student coordinator
Cindy Jiminez.
Department Staff
Irene Minder
is the department's director of finance and
administration. You find
a staff directory on the
resources page.
For visitors, there is
some more information as well as
some pointers on computing.
Research
Mathematics research is done in
various research areas
The
junior faculty home pages, the
visitor interests page,
or the
graduate student home pages contain more links.
Check also the
dissertation titles,
senior thesis titles,
mathematics seminar archive,
the faculty colloquium or regular
conferences like the
CDM conference,
the
JDG conference or a
topology conference,
the conference archive
or research programs like
the
eigenvarieties program 2006.
Also the
seminar talk archive,
the
undergraduate math colloquium
can give clues about activities. A good starting point on the web is also
the
MathSciNet search for "Harvard Mathematics" at AMS
or a
Google scholar search for "Harvard Mathematics".
Department
The Mathematics department is located on the floors 2-5 in the
Science center.
Information how to reach the department is
here.
During the semesters, there is tea at 4 o'clock in the Math
common room.
On Fridays, there is usually "wine and cheese" available. (The name does not exclude "beer" and nonalcoholic drinks to be available).
Within Harvard
The mathematics department is part of the
faculty of arts and sciences (FAS) at
Harvard university.
The department is
located in the
Science Center
at
1 Oxford street
in
Cambridge near
Boston in the state of
Massachusetts.
There is a
virtual tour of Harvard.
Calculus
To search all Harvard courses, start
here.
Mathematics courses are listed
on this page.
Calculus courses are mainly taught in smaller sections.
The
preceptor group led by Robin Gottlieb
coordinates the calculus program.
Information about
sectioning,
advising and placement tests is
located here.
For questions, contact the calculus coordinator
Susan Milano from the calculus office.
Computing
The department senior system administrator is
Arthur Gaer.
For computing support, please email computing@math.
For information, start with the
computing links and
especially the
frequently asked questions.
Visitors wishing to use computing resources, find information
here.
The departmental Solaris server "Abel" can be reached
by a web browser or with
webmail.
For administrative purposes, there are Apple OSX and
several Linux servers like for example a newer Sunfire X4150 Server with 2 quadcore Xeons, 8G Ram. For scientific computing,
there is
a 64-bit quad Sun Fire V480 Server with 22GB RAM,
a Linux cluster meccah
is now replaced by a Sun 16 core X4700 Opteron machine, called Alhambra.
Courses
Here is a list
of Math courses which are part of all
FAS courses.
Some department members also teach at the
Summer school or the
Extension school and its
teaching Masters program.
During the
semester
or in the summer,
tutorials are organized. Information about
current tutorials can be found in the
tutorial pamphlet.
All the pamphlets are listed
here in HTML and PDF form. You can download all pamphlets together
as a 30 page PDF document.
Location
Directions to reach the department are
on this page.
To find your way around,
the
Open customized street map,
the
Google map,
the
Harvard university map, or
the
Floorplans might help.
Here are some pictures of the
science center.
Libraries
The Librarian of the "laptop and cellphone free" Birkhoff library in the department is
Nancy Miller.
Nancy also is the contact to the
registrar
as well as book stores for course material. The chair of the Library committee is
Curtis McMullen.
The Science center locates also the
Cabot library,
one of the
many libraries
at Harvard. For more information to all Harvard libraries, start
here. Downstairs in the Cabot science library, there is a scanner.
It is located near the periodicals and allows to scan papers to memory stick or via network to your
computer.
Graduate
The web page with information about the graduate school is
here. This page contains for example
an
archive of old qualifying exams.
For questions about the graduate school, contact the graduate
coordinator
Susan Gilbert.
The director of graduate studies is
Joe Harris.
Undergraduate
Most information for undergraduates is
here. Math table talks are listed
here. Information on the Putnam exam is
on this page.
For undergraduate research opportunities look
here.
For questions about concentration in Mathematics, contact the undergraduate student coordinator
Cindy Jiminez.
The senior faculty undergraduate coordinator is
Peter Kronheimer.
Seminars
Some recent news can be accessed
here.
Events and seminars in the Boston area are listed
on this page.
If you organize a seminar needing advertisement, fill out a form there. The current and future
seminar announcements at the
Mathematics department are regularly moved to the
archive. We also keep a
long term archive. These archives can
be sorted in different ways. Contact
Susan Peterson
to
post an event, or make a room request.
You might also want to look at the
the faculty colloquium talks,
the
trivial notions talks
archived
here,
the
undergraduate colloquium a weekly event which is also called the
"Math Table", or the
teaching seminars.
Jobs
Information on applying to the graduate school can be found on the admissions section of
the
graduate web page.
To apply for a Benjamin Peirce Lectureship, use the application form
in
TXT or
PDF format.
To apply for the Preceptor position in Mathematics, use the application form
in
TXT or
PDF format.
For upper and lower level
course assistant positions
check out the jobs page.
Conferences
Here is an
archive of recent conferences
at the Mathematics department.
History
We have a
collection of texts about the history
of the Mathematics department. It contains also other resources like
scanned old department directories,
scanned old maps of Cambridge,
old lithographs in high resolution
or
photos of old math models exhibited in the
Math common room.