Mathematics | Michigan State University

Seminars

Tuesday, November 30
Student Analysis Seminar
Speaker: Keshav Sutrave
Title: Something on symmetry and variational PDE’s
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Place: C517 Wells Hall

Student Number Theory
Speaker: Keping Huang, MSU
Title: Complex abelian varieties, continued
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Place: Online (virtual meeting)
Virtual Meeting Link

Wednesday, December 1
Combinatorics and Graph Theory
Speaker: Angèle Foley, Wilfrid Laurier University
Title: Identities for ninth variation Schur Q-functions
Time: 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Place: Online (virtual meeting)
Virtual Meeting Link

Algebra
Speaker: Jack Petok, Dartmouth
Title: Sections of quadric fourfold bundles
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: Online (virtual meeting)
Virtual Meeting Link

Thursday, December 2
Applied Mathematics
Speaker: John Harlim, The Pennsylvania State University
Title: Diffusion maps on manifolds with boundaries for solving PDEs
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 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

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News & Events

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.

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.

Willie Wong wins 2021 University Teacher-Scholar Award

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

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.

Teena Gerhardt wins 2021 President’s Distinguished Teaching Award

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

Honors Research Seminar "Inquiry in numbers"

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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.

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.

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.