Department of Mathematics

Events: Department Colloquium and Lecture Series

The Amick Lectures in Applied Mathematics for the 2011-2012 academic year will be given by Jeffrey Rauch of the University of Michigan on May 29, 30, and 31, 2012. More details here.
The Undergraduate Lecture Series in Mathematics for the 2011-2012 academic year will be given by Professor Anna Gilbert of the University of Michigan. The first lecture (the Cohen Prize Lecture) will be Thursday May 24 starting 7:30 PM in E 206. It will be preceded by free pizza at 6:30 PM in Ryerson 352 (The Barn). The second lecture will be Friday May 25 in Ryerson 251 starting 3 PM. More details here (PDF).

There will be a concentration period on nonlinear elliptic PDEs at the University of Chicago in May 2012. More details here.
There will be a summer school on Recent Advances in the Theory of Homogenization at the University of Chicago in the period June 18-29, 2012. More details here.

Karin Melnick of the University of Maryland, who completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 2006, has been awarded the prestigious AMS Centennial Fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year. The fellowship is presented annually to outstanding mathematicians who have held the doctoral degree for between three and twelve years. More here. — May 2012
A video interview of Paul Sally is available on the Simons Foundation website. Paul Sally is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Mathematics Department.— April 2012
Bao Châu Ngô, the Francis and Rose Yuen Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics was elected to the 2012 class of fellows of the American Academy of Arts of Sciences. More here.— April 2012

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