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Seminars

Thursday, December 12
Colloquium
Speaker: Zhouli Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: In and around stable homotopy groups of spheres
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

Tuesday, January 7
Colloquium
Speaker: Xiumin Du, University of Maryland
Title: Schrodinger solutions on sparse and spread-out sets
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

Wednesday, January 15
Algebra
Speaker: Eli Matzri, Bar-Ilan University
Title: TBA
Time: 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

Wednesday, February 5
Algebra
Speaker: Henri Darmon, McGill
Title: TBA
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

Thursday, February 6
Colloquium
Speaker: Henri Darmon, McGill University
Title: TBD
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

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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News & Events

Phillips Lecture Series

$Photo of Laure Saint-Raymond$

Professor Laure Saint-Raymond will present the Phillips Lecture during the week of March 9-13, 2020. She was a 2014 ICM speaker for her pioneering work on the hydrodynamic limit of Boltzmann's equation.

Spring Course Meetings

Course meetings for Spring classes start on Friday, January 3. Please check the full schedule at the following link for details: Instructor Course Meetings.

MSU Mathematicians win awards for political combinatorics

See the full list of SSDA Data Visualization winners.

Fall 2019 Mathematics Newsletter

Fall 2019 Mathematics Newsletter highlights Putnam team, new pathways for college algebra.

Spotlight

Ilya Kachkovskiy receives NSF CAREER Award

Ilya Kachkovskiy received a prestigious 2019 NSF CAREER award support his work on transport in disordered, deterministic systems. His proposal incorporates efforts to enhance high school outreach and undergraduate research mentoring.

Jeff Schenker named 2020 AMS Fellow

Professor Jeff Schenker has been named a 2020 American Mathematical Society Fellow for his research into mathematical physics and disorder effects in quantum systems.

Mohit Bansil Awarded 2019 Goldwater Scholarship

We are pleased to announce that Mohit Bansil, a junior in the Advanced Mathematics program, has received a 2019 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the preeminent undergraduate award in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering. Mohit placed in the top 200 individuals in the 2018 Putnam Competition.

Zhenqi Wang receives NSF CAREER Award

Zhenqi Wang received a prestigious 2019 NSF CAREER award supporting her work on smooth rigidity of hyperbolic dynamical systems. Her proposal incorporates efforts to enhance early career development of women in mathematics.

Nikkita Ngalande Awarded 2019 Rhodes Scholarship

Nikkita Ngalande has been awarded a very prestigious 2019 Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford University. On course to receive her BSc in Actuarial Science, her research focuses on the fiscal sustainability of local governments within Michigan. For more information about Nikkita Ngalande being named a Rhodes Scholar, please visit the MSU Today article here.

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.