[Caml-list] Jeremy Avigad to give this year's LMS/BCS-FACS Evening Seminar -- 6 November 2025, online via Zoom

[Andrei Popescu <andrei.h.popescu@gmail.com>]

Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce that this year’s London Mathematical
Society (LMS) / British Computer Society -- Formal Aspects of
Computing Science (BCS-FACS) Evening Seminar will feature Jeremy
Avigad as the distinguished speaker. Registration is free but required
in advance.

Date: 6 November 2025
Time: 19:00 (UK time)
Format: Online via Zoom
Talk title: Mathematics in the Age of AI
Jeremy’s website: https://lnkd.in/ep3w-fiB

Registration (for access to the Zoom link) is available here:
https://lnkd.in/eRE-Bb2A

Further details about the talk are included below

Best wishes,
Andrei


Speaker: Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University)
Title: Mathematics in the Age of AI

Abstract:
New technologies for reasoning and discovery are bound to have a
profound effect on mathematical practice. Proof assistants are already
changing the nature of collaboration, communication, and curation of
mathematical knowledge. Automated reasoning tools are used to find
mathematical objects with specified properties or rule out their
existence, and to decide or verify mathematical claims. Machine
learning and neural methods can discover patterns in mathematical
data, explore complex mathematical spaces, and generate mathematical
objects of interest. Neurosymbolic theorem provers, now capable of
solving the most challenging competition problems, combine aspects of
all of these technologies.

It is helpful to keep in mind that the phrase "AI for mathematics"
encompasses several distinct technologies that overlap and interact in
interesting ways. In this talk, I will survey the landscape, describe
a few landmark applications to mathematics, and encourage you to join
me in thinking about how mathematicians and computer scientists can
collaborate to guide mathematics through this era of technological
change.

Bio:
Jeremy Avigad is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and the
Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. He
is the director of the Institute for Computer-Aided Reasoning in
Mathematics, a new NSF Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and
the director of the Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics, a
research center at Carnegie Mellon. He has contributed to mathematical
logic and the history and philosophy of mathematics, and he is
currently working on applications of formal methods and AI to
mathematics. He serves on the Lean Community Admin Team and the board
of the Lean Focused Research Organization.