Mathematics | Michigan State University

Seminars

Monday, October 3
CoIntegrate Mathematics
Title: The University Teaching Experience: Creating Early Field Experiences Prepare Novice Teachers for the Demands of Teaching Mathematics In Schools
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Place: 252 Erick
Speaker: Kristen Bieda, MSU

Topology
Title: Involutions and Floer Homology-3
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: C304 WH
Speaker: Kristen Hendricks, MSU

Tuesday, October 4
Combinatorics and Graph Theory
Title: Descent and peak polynomials
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: C304 WH
Speaker: Bruce Sagan, MSU

Student Analysis and PDE
Title: The Golden-Thompson inequality
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: C-517 WH
Speaker: Rodrigo Matos, MSU

Thursday, October 6
Geometry and Topology
Title: TBA
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Place: C304 WH
Speaker: Kyle Hayden, Boston College

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

October 18-21, 2016
Luis Caffarelli
Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents’ Chair in Mathematics at the University of Texas

Distinguished Undergraduate Lecture Series

The Department of Mathematics will host a lecture by Carl Pomerance titled "What We Still Don’t Know About Addition and Multiplication", as part of the Distinguished Undergraduate Lecture Series, on Tuesday, October 11th, 2016. For more information, see the Distiguished Undergraduate Lecture Series event flyer.

Spotlight

Matt Hirn Awarded Sloan Fellowship

Matt Hirn, jointly appointed with Math and CMSE, has won a prestigious Sloan Fellowship for his work at the interface between harmonic analysis and machine learning.

Tsveta Sendova invited to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy "Math Matters" meeting

Tsveta Sendova, co-director of the Center for Instructional Mentoring at MSU, is one of a handful of mathematics educators nationally to be invited to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy "Math Matters" meeting on Sept. 8, 2016

Alexander Volberg named MSU Foundation Professor

On September 29, 2015, Professor Alexander Volberg was honored with the designation of MSU Foundation Professor in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the fields of analysis and partial differential equations. In addition, Professor Volberg has been recognized as a Senior Scholar by the Clay Mathematics Institute in association with the MSRI's 2017 semester in Harmonic Analysis.

2016 Simon Fellowship

Dapeng Zhan has received a 2016 Simon Fellowship in recognition of his work on multi-point Green functions for Schramm-Loewner evolution.

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Thomas Grubb Awarded Goldwater Scholarship

Thomas Grubb has won a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for his work with Prof. Bruce Sagan on combinatorial pattern avoidance in set partitions and restricted growth functions. There are 250 Goldwater Scholarships awarded annually to sophomores and juniors across mathematics and science in the US.

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2015 MSU Distinguished Academic Specialist Award

Pavel Sikorskii has been awarded the 2015 MSU Distinguished Academic Specialist Award. Click here and here for more information. A video of the awards ceremony can be seen here.

AMS Sectional Meeting 2015

MSU mathematics was proud to host an AMS sectional meeting March 14-15, 2015. The event was highlighted by a reception on the fourth floor of the MSU Spartan Stadium, in the Huntington Lounge. More information about the event can be found on our Spotlight page.

2015 Ronald H. and Mary E. Simon Actuarial Science Lecture

More than 100 people attended the fourth Ronald H. and Mary E. Simon Actuarial Science Lecture on Nov. 13 to hear Stephen Mildenhall, Global CEO of Analytics for Aon, speak on the theory and practice of risk management.

Taylor Joseph Awarded Leroy Augenstein Memorial Scholarship

Taylor Joseph, a mathematics major, has been awarded the Leroy Augenstein Memorial Scholarship from the College of Natural Science.

PSM Recognition for the Master of Science in Industrial Mathematics at MSU

The PSM National Office announced the recognition for the Professional Science Master’s Program in Industrial Mathematics (aka the Master of Science in Industrial Mathematics) at Michigan State University in October 2014. The program was granted the PSM affiliation status from October 28, 2014 through October 27, 2019 as the first program in the Group 1, Cycle 1 nationwide because it fully meets the guidelines for the PSM re-affiliation.

Dr. Jeanne Wald Receives Awards

Dr. Jeanne Wald has received the Inspirational Woman of the Year Award for professional acheivement, as well as the Honors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students. The award is given to a faculty or staff member who 'who has made exceptional contributions to Honors College students through teaching, advising, or mentoring.'