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Math News and Events
Events
- October
- October 15Graduate Number Theory SeminarJiaqi Hou - Residue symbols and Gauss sums2:25 PM, B235 Van Vleck Hall
- October 15Logic SeminarAntonio Nakid Cordero, UW - Uniform Martin’s Conjecture in the enumeration degrees4:00 PM, 901 Van Vleck Hall
- October 15Graduate Geometric Analysis Reading SeminarYijie He - Ricci flow as a gradient flow4:00 PM, B211 Van Vleck Hall
- October 15Graduate Applied Math SeminarBella Finkel - Neurovarieties and expressiveness of polynomial neural networks4:00 PM, B223 Van Vleck Hall
- October 16Relative Trace FormulaAlejo Salvatore - Satake isomorphism and L-functions.3:30 PM, B211 Van Vleck Hall
News
Botong Wang awarded fellowship to IAS for 2024-2025 academic year
Associate Professor Botong Wang was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2024-2025 academic year. This prestigious membership allows for focused research and the free and open exchange of ideas …
August 27, 2024
Jordan Ellenberg gives 2024 Arnold Ross Lecture
On July 18 at the Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS) math camp, Jordan Ellenberg gave the 2024 Arnold Ross lecture. The audience was talented teens and their undergraduate counselors. The Arnold Ross lecture …
August 2, 2024
Dima Arinkin featured as 1 of 11 involved in settling the Geometric Langlands conjecture
Quanta recently featured an article on the settlement of the Langlands conjecture, and our own Dima Arinkin was one of the people involved in the proof. This problem, first presented by Robert Langlands, a professor …
July 25, 2024
Mikhail Feldman named next Steenbock Professor in Mathematical Sciences
Mikhail Feldman named next Steenbock Professor in Mathematical Sciences, taking over for Jin-Yi Cai.
June 20, 2024
In Memoriam: Nigel Boston
It is with great sadness that we post that Nigel Boston has died. He worked for the Math Department from 2002 to 2019. A Kudosboard on the occasion of his retirement in 2019 is filled …
April 3, 2024- More News