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Seminars

Monday, October 21
CoIntegrate Mathematics
Speaker: Jack Smith, MSU
Title: When the Game Changes: The Development of Student Agency and Autonomy in Challenging Undergraduate Mathematics
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Place: 115 Erickson Hall

Student Geometry/Topology
Speaker: Brandon Bavier, MSU
Title: The Ends of Hyperbolic Manifolds
Time: 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

Conversations among Colleagues
Speaker: Andy Krause, MSU
Title: Instructional Faculty Observations and Evaluation
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: C109 Wells Hall

Student Algebra & Combinatorics
Speaker: Yu Shen, Michigan State
Title: Serre Duality I
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall

Tuesday, October 22
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Speaker: Gorapada Bera, MSU
Title: Linear analysis on cylindrical-end manifolds (continued)
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Place: C117 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.

AMS/AWM Colloquium

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Professor Turanova will present in the Colloquium jointly organized by the AMS/AWM Student Chapters on October 28, 2019. She is internationally known for her work on reaction-diffusion equations. For more information, see the AMS/AWM event flyer.

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

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.

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.