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Applied Mathematics - Peer Concentration Advisors (PCA) Program

PCAs serve as peer advisors for pre-concentrators (and current concentrators), providing a valuable perspective and helping students to discover additional resources and opportunities. If you would like to be matched to a PCA, you can do one of the following:

Lord of the wings

September 17, 2018

New model sheds light on how nature generates diverse patterns

Using space tech to avert climate Armageddon

September 17, 2012

A Q&A with geoengineering expert David Keith (Forbes)

John Briscoe to receive 2012 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence

September 13, 2012

Expert in water security celebrated for outstanding achievements in the stewardship of freshwater resources

Think small

March 9, 2016

Students learn huge challenges involved in making tiny devices in SEAS Microfabrication Laboratory

Variability appears critical to motor learning

January 17, 2014

Harvard researchers say apparent "flaws" in motor function are key for learning quickly

Isakov interviewed for Huffington Post feature

August 1, 2017

Ariann Jones, right, with her senior capstone project

Senior project spotlight: Ariann Jones

April 21, 2023

A quick-assembly device to stop femoral hemorrhages

A living (room) lab

May 6, 2020

With students off campus, faculty and staff innovated to redesign hands-on courses

New research replicates the folding of a fetal human brain

February 1, 2016

Study substantiates a simple mechanical framework for how the human brain folds

Researchers at Harvard China Project urge carbon tax

December 18, 2013

In-depth studies, outlined in Clearer Skies book, suggest comprehensive response to pollution and climate concerns

Master's in Data Science - Info for Current Students

Master's in Computational Science and Engineering - Info for Current Students

Long live the smartphone

December 11, 2013

That thing attached to your hand? It might be doomed

Problem solved, with an app

December 10, 2013

Students from all fields presented creative, useful, and fun apps at the CS 50 Fair

Startup R & D

ENG-SCI 95R
2026 Spring

Paul Bottino
Monday
3:45pm to 6:30pm

Students do field-based work in entrepreneurship to develop their existing startup and explore new ideas and opportunities for startup creation. The course is for student-founders seeking to advance their innovation experience in a supportive community of peer founders. Students may work individuall...

Startup R & D

ENG-SCI 95R
2025 Fall

Paul Bottino
Monday
3:45pm to 6:30pm

Computing at Scale

COMPSCI 2420
2025 Fall

H. Kung
Monday, Wednesday
3:45pm to 5:00pm

This course focuses on efficient AI computations aimed at reducing the cost of AI model training and inference. Students will learn systematic methods for implementing parallel and distributed computations for computer vision and language models such as CNNs and Transformers across multiple computin...

Computational Optimal Transport for Machine Learning

COMPSCI 2840
2025 Fall

David Alvarez Melis
Tuesday, Thursday
12:45pm to 2:00pm

Optimal Transport (OT) has quickly become an important part of the Machine Learning (ML) toolkit, where it has been used for various purposes, from learning mappings between datasets to proving convergence results for neural network training. This advanced-topics course will cover the mathematical f...