Mathematics | Michigan State University

Seminars

Thursday, August 29
Geometry and Topology
Speaker: Chris Gerig, Harvard University
Title: Probing 4-manifolds with near-symplectic forms
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

Thursday, September 5
Colloquium
Speaker: Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
Title: TBD
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

Wednesday, September 11
Analysis and PDE
Speaker: Marcelo Disconzi, Vanderbilt University
Title: Rough solutions to the three-dimensional compressible Euler equations with vorticity and entropy
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: C517 Wells Hall

Thursday, September 19
Colloquium
Speaker: Aaron Naber, Northwestern University
Title: TBD
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

Thursday, September 26
Geometry and Topology
Speaker: David Boozer, UCLA
Title: Tba
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 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

College of Natural Science

Events

Phillips Lecture Series

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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.

Fall Teaching Orientation

Fall Teaching Orientation starts on August 21. Please check the full schedule at the following links for details: Teaching Orientation Events, Instructors Course Meetings.

Recalculating Gateway Mathematics

See how new approaches and course offerings from the Department of Mathematics helps contribute to student success in "Recalculating Gateway Mathematics at MSU"

NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Eliot Bongiovanni has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. These highly competitive awards provide three years of full support to pursue Ph.D. studies in a STEM field, which Eliot will do in mathematics at Rice University.

Spotlight

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.

Efstratia (Effie) Kalfagianni named 2019 AMS Fellow and William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty

Professor Efstratia Kalfagianni has received MSU's William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty award and been named a 2019 American Mathematical Society Fellow for her research establishing intrinsic connections between quantum 3-manifold invariants, hyperbolic geometry and the topology of surfaces.

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.

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.

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.

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.