Mathematics | Michigan State University

Seminars

Friday, January 22
Student Number Theory
Speaker: Zheng Xiao, MSU
Title: Extensions of function fields
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Place: Online (virtual meeting)
Virtual Meeting Link

Tuesday, January 26
Conversations among Colleagues
Title: Online large lectures and coordinated courses - challenges and opportunities
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Place:
Virtual Meeting Link

Geometry and Topology
Speaker: Matt Stoffregen, MSU
Title: TBA
Time: 2:50 PM - 3:40 PM
Place: Online (virtual meeting)
Virtual Meeting Link

Colloquium
Speaker: Luis Silvestre, University of Chicago
Title: Integro-differential diffusion and the Boltzmann equation
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Place: Online (virtual meeting)

Wednesday, January 27
Combinatorics and Graph Theory
Speaker: Joshua Swanson, UCSD
Title: DUSTPAN distributions as limit laws for Mahonian statistics on forests
Time: 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Place: Online (virtual meeting)
Virtual Meeting Link

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

College of Natural Science

News & Events

Postponed: Professor Laure Saint-Raymond's Phillips Lecture, originally March 9-11, 2020, is being rescheduled for the fall. She was a 2014 ICM speaker for her pioneering work on the hydrodynamic limit of Boltzmann's equation.

COVID-19 Information

Please see the MSU Together We Will website for important COVID-19 information, including the MSU Community Compact and the COVID-19 Health Screening Form. Please note that MSU employees working on campus must complete the screening every time they come to campus.

C212 Schedule for Start of Fall Semester

Quantitative Literacy goes to South Africa

Check out the Quantitative Literacy Program Flyer and apply here for Travel with Quantitative Literacy 2020-21

Math 2020 Undergraduate and Graduate Award Winners

Fall 2019 Mathematics Newsletter

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

Spotlight

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.

Leo Abbrescia 2020 NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship

Leo Abbrescia wins 2020 NSF Postdoctoral fellowship to study shock formation in 3D relativistic compressible fluids. Leo anticipates completing his PhD under Willie Wong's supervision and heading to Vanderbilt University in fall 2020.

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.

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.

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.