Contact
Department of Mathematics
Harvard University
One Oxford Street
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
To reach the department, please contact the main office
Tel: (617) 495-2171, Fax: (617) 495-5132.
Chair
As of July 1, 2020, the Chair of the Mathematics Department is
Michael Hopkins,
Science Center,
[email protected].
Director of Graduate Studies
The director of graduate studies is
Mark Kisin,
Science center, 2nd Floor,
[email protected].
For question about graduate studies in Mathematics, contact the
graduate program administrator
Marjorie Bell.
Director of Undergraduate Studies
The director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) is
Cliff Taubes. For questions about concentration in Mathematics, contact the
undergraduate student coordinator
Cindy Jimenez.
Department Staff
Irene Minder
is the department's director of finance and
administration. You find
a staff directory on the top of the
resources page.
For visitors, there is
some more information as well as
some pointers on computing.
Directories
The department directory contains
a
faculty listing
(see also the
Harvard FAS Mastheads),
a
staff listing,
a list of
graduate students, and
a list
visitors.
See also the latest
PDF of the
printed department directory.
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,
open neighborhood seminar,
snapshots of math at harvard,
the faculty colloquium or the 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 events
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.
All Harvard courses can be searched
on the catalog.
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.
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, the
a Linux cluster meccah
is 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
Math for 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, check out
the
Google map,
the
Harvard university map.
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.