Chair
As of July 1, 2013, the Chair of the Mathematics Department is Benedict Gross. Contact information:Benedict Gross, Science Center, 3th Floor 5-9063, gross@math.harvard.edu
Director of Undergraduate Studies
The director of Undergraduate Studies is Peter Kronheimer . 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.
