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Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics
AI has made groundbreaking progress in pure math in the past few months:
This AI advancement raises the following questions: (a) How much can AI speed up the process
from ideation to peer-reviewed publication? (b) What is the role of a mathematician when AI can
solve conjectures faster?
We are assembling the top math talent worldwide to answer these questions. On October 30th, a
hundred teams will be given frontier models to solve open conjectures and build new
mathematical theories. Then, they will defend their results before leading mathematicians, who
will assess their understanding of the results.
We will award prizes to the most promising and well-explained results at the event. Then, after
the math community has had time to verify these results, we will provide a second round of prizes.
It will be the first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics.