Home » Articles posted by NS (Page 3) Added on April 20, 2016 by NSPlease congratulate Prof. Andrei Okounkov, who was recently elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences!
Prof. Okounkov joins a distinguished list of scholars and thinkers from a variety of fields and disciplines. As posted on the Academy’s website:
“The Academy membership encompasses over 4,600 Fellows and 600 Foreign Honorary Members and reflects the full range of disciplines and professions: mathematics, the physical and biological sciences, medicine, the social sciences and humanities, business, government, public affairs, and the arts. Among the Academy’s Fellows are more than 250 Nobel laureates and 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.”
For a complete list of the 2016 members, including Prof. Okounkov, please visit:
https://www.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx?s=c
 Print this pageAdded on January 13, 2016 by NSApplications are now open for the annual Undergraduate Summer Research Program. For information on the program, including a link to the application materials, please visit the REU website. All continuing Columbia/Barnard undergraduates are eligible to apply.
Print this pageAdded on September 02, 2015 by NSWelcome to the 2015 cohort of graduate students! A list of our new phd students can be found at:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/programs-math/graduate-program/incoming-class/
As a reminder, fall classes begin Tuesday, September 8.
Print this pageAdded on February 23, 2015 by NSJennifer Hom, an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department, was recently selected as a recipient for the prestigious Sloan Fellowship award. From the Sloan Research Fellowship website:
“The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.”
For more information on the fellowships, and for a complete list of recent winners, visit:
http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/
Print this pageAdded on May 13, 2014 by NSCongratulations to Prof. Andrei Okounkov for being selected as a Simons Investigator under the Simons Foundation Investigators Program (2014).
Simon Investigators are outstanding theoretical scientists who receive long-term research support from the Simons Foundation. This supports the scientists in their most productive years, when they are establishing creative new research directions, providing leadership to the field, and effectively mentoring junior scientists. For more information about the Simons Foundation and this award, visit their webpage.
Print this pageAdded on April 24, 2014 by NSCongratulations to Prof. Robert Friedman for winning the Mark Van Doren Teaching award! This honor is given by the Columbia College Academic Awards Committee to recognize a faculty’s humanity, devotion to truth, and inspiring leadership.
The Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching has been awarded annually since 1962 and was established in honor of Mark Van Doren GSAS ’21, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, novelist, scholar, and legendary teacher who inspired generations of Columbia students. Check out all the previous award winners here, and find out more information about Columbia College’s Academic Prizes.
Print this pageAdded on April 17, 2014 by NSThe Spring 2014 Kolchin Lecture by Prof. Melvin Hochster (University of Michigan) will take place on Thursday, May 1, 2014.
Prof. Hochster will deliver a talk titled:
“Bounding syzygies and the nature of subrings of polynomial rings”
Abstract: A famous theorem of Hilbert asserts that in the polynomial ring in N variables over a field K, if one repeatedly takes modules of relations (or “syzygies”), the process terminates after at most N steps. One may think of having, at each step, finitely many vectors of polynomials. At the next step one replaces them with finitely many generators for the relations among these vectors. Even if one starts with relations on individual polynomials, one must deal with vectors as one iterates. Recently, there has been a great deal of study of how many steps are needed if one starts with n polynomials of degree d but without any assumption about N. The question was raised by Michael Stillman, and the best answer is not known even for four quadrics or three cubics, nor is it known in general whether there is a bound that depends only on b, n. The talk will survey what is known and discuss recent joint work with Tigran Ananyan that shows such bounds exist in degrees 2, 3, and 4. The methods used raise fundamental questions about the nature of subrings and of ideals in polynomial rings that go far beyond the original motivation. The talk is intended for a general audience.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 5:30pm; Room 312 Math
*Kolchin Lecture Flyer*
Print this pageAdded on April 17, 2014 by NSThe Spring 2014 Ritt Lectures by Prof. Fernando Codá Marques (IMPA) will take place on Monday, April 28, 2014 & Tuesday, April 29, 2014.
Prof. Codá Marques will deliver a two talk series titled:
“Min-max minimal surfaces and applications”
Abstract: We will present general constructions of unstable minimal surfaces, and discuss several recent applications to geometry and topology.
Monday, April 28, 2014 at 11:45am; Room 203 Math
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 11:45am; Room 207 Math
*Ritt Lecture Flyer*
Print this pageAdded on April 11, 2014 by NSThe Spring 2014 Minerva Lectures by Prof. Alexei Borodin (MIT) will take place during the week of April 21, 2014.
Prof. Borodin will deliver the following talks:
“Macdonald processes”
Abstract: Our goal is to explain how certain basic representation theoretic ideas and constructions encapsulated in the form of Macdonald processes lead to nontrivial asymptotic results in various ‘integrable’ probabilistic problems. Examples include dimer models, general beta random matrix ensembles, and various members of the (2+1)d anisotropic KPZ and (1+1)d KPZ universality classes, such as growing stepped surfaces, q-TASEP, q-PushASEP, and directed polymers in random media.
April 21, 2014 & April 24, 2014 from 5:30pm-7pm; Room 507 Math
“Gaussian Free Field in beta ensembles and random surfaces”
Abstract: The goal of the talk is to argue that the two-dimensional Gaussian Free Field is a universal and unifying object for global fluctuations of spectra of random matrices and random surfaces. This viewpoint leads to natural Gaussian processes on larger spaces which, despite their explicit covariance structure, so far lack conceptual understanding.
April 25, 2014 from 11am-12pm; School of Social Work, Room 903
*Minerva Lecture Flyer*
Print this pageAdded on March 31, 2014 by NSOn Friday, April 11, 2014, the annual Columbia-Princeton Probability Day conference will take place at Columbia University’s Northwest Corner Building.
The scheduled speakers are:
•Martin Barlow (U. British Columbia)
•Thierry Bodineau (Ecole Polytechnique)
•Steve Lalley (U. Chicago)
•Subhro Ghosh (Princeton University)
•Clement Hongler (Columbia University)
•Jason Miller (MIT)
For more information regarding the talks, please VISIT THIS LINK.
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