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Seminars

Monday, September 16
Student Algebra & Combinatorics
Speaker: Chuangtian Guan, MSU
Title: P.D. rings with a view towards Crystals
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

Tuesday, September 17
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Speaker: Dongsoo Lee, MSU
Title: Morse homology
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

Seminar in Cluster algebras
Speaker: Honghao Gao, MSU
Title: Legendrian knots and augmentation varieties
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Place: C204A Wells Hall

Thursday, September 19
Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Speaker: Nick Rekuski, MSU
Title: Perfectoid Fields and Tilting
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Place: C329 Wells Hall

Mathematical Physics and Operator Algebras
Speaker: Scott Atkinson, University of California, Riverside
Title: Tracial stability and related topics in operator algebras
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 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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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.