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Seminars

Tuesday, September 21
Mathematical Physics and Operator Algebras
Speaker: Matthew Lorentz, Michigan State University
Title: Derivations and the Hochschild Cohomology of Uniform Roe Algebras, Part 2
Time: 11:10 AM - 12:00 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

Geometry and Topology
Speaker: Chris Fraser, MSU
Title: Braid group action on Grassmannian cluster varieties and spherical twists
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: Online (virtual meeting)
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Wednesday, September 22
Combinatorics and Graph Theory
Speaker: Einar Steingrímsson, University of Strathclyde
Title: Permutation statistics and moment sequences
Time: 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Place: Online (virtual meeting)
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Analysis and PDE
Speaker: Ruoyu Wang , Northwestern
Title: Boundary Stabilisation of Waves on Product Manifolds
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: Online (virtual meeting)
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Thursday, September 23
Applied Mathematics
Speaker: Joel Tropp, California Institute of Technology
Title: Scalable semidefinite programming
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Place: Online (virtual meeting)
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For a full schedule of seminars, click here.

Contact

Department of Mathematics
Michigan State University
619 Red Cedar Road
C212 Wells Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: (517) 353-0844
Fax: (517) 432-1562

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COVID-19 Information

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Teena Gerhardt and Ilya Kachkovskiy Awarded Collaborative NSF Grants

Read more about this grant and the recipients in the College of Natural Science award announcement.

Math 2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Award Winners

Spring 2021 Mathematics Newsletter

Spring 2021 Mathematics Newsletter highlights online classes success

Spotlight

Sasha Volberg named 2021 AMS Fellow

Professor Sasha Volberg has been named an American Mathematics Society Fellow for his contributions to harmonic analysis and its relations to geometric measure theory.

Misha Shapiro named 2021 AMS Fellow

Professor Misha Shapiro has been named a 2021 American Mathematical Society Fellow for his contributions to enumerative algebraic geometry and to the theory of cluster algebras.

Willie Wong wins 2021 University Teacher-Scholar Award

Click here to read more about this and other 2020-2021 All-University Awards.

Teena Gerhardt wins 2021 President’s Distinguished Teaching Award

Click here to read more about this and other 2020-2021 All-University Awards.

2021 Goldwater Scholarship

$Photo of Charles Hultquist and Andrew McDonald$

Charles Hultquist and Andrew McDonald, graduating seniors in our Advanced Track Program, received 2021 Goldwater Scholarships. For more information about this scholarship, see the 2021 NIFS Goldwater announcement.

Advanced track to UCLA

Two 2020 Advanced track graduates, Mohit Bansil and Theodore Faust, have received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Both Mohit, who worked with Prof. Jun Kitagawa, and Theo, who worked with Prof. Mark Iwen, will go to UCLA for their graduate studies.

Honors Research Seminar "Inquiry in numbers"

$Photo of Olga Turanova and Preston Wake$

Olga Turanova and Preston Wake received funding for an Honors Research Seminar "Inquiry in numbers". A student-led introduction to number theory, including prime numbers, factorization, and modular arithmetic aimed at first-year honors students.

MSU Putnam Competition Team In Top 25

MSU's team placed in the top 25 in the highly competitive Putnam Competition. This exam has top undergraduates solve challenging problems and attracts entrants from over 500 universities in the US and Canada. Pictured are individual entrant Jamie Schmidt and Putnam team members Neel Modi, Luke Wiljanen and Mohit Bansil.