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Math Library Ribbon Cutting will be on Wednesday, February 5

The Math Library Ribbon cutting ceremony will be on Wednesday, February 5th from 1PM – 2PM. Come join us in celebrating the renovated library!

Spring 2025 Minerva Foundation Lectures

Starting Tues. Jan 21st, the Spring 2025 Minerva Foundation Lectures will take place on Tuesdays at 4:10 p.m. in room 507. Professor Rama Cont (Oxford), will deliver a series of […]

Special Colloquium (1/28, Lue Pan)

Special Colloquium Speaker: Lue Pan (Princeton University) Title: The Fontaine-Mazur conjecture in dimension two Abstract: The Fontaine-Mazur conjecture predicts which two-dimensional p-adic representations of the absolute Galois group of Q […]

Special Colloquium (1/23, Alex Smith)

Special Colloquium Speaker: Alex Smith (UCLA) Title: The distribution of conjugates of an algebraic integer Abstract: For every odd prime p, the number 2 + 2cos(2 pi/p) is an algebraic […]

Special Colloquium (1/22, Alex Petrov)

Special Colloquium Speaker: Alex Petrov (MIT) Title: Topology of algebraic varieties in positive characteristic Abstract: One fruitful way to analyze the topology of an algebraic variety over complex numbers is […]

Alum Robin Zhang’s 2023 Columbia PhD thesis awarded the Graduate Thesis Award at the 2024 ICCM for the best PhD theses by mathematicians of Chinese descent

Alum Robin Zhang‘s 2023 Columbia PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Michael Harris, The Harris—Venkatesh conjecture for derived Hecke operators, was awarded the Graduate Thesis Award (Gold Prize) at the […]

Prof. Francesco Lin awarded The Richard Hamilton Best Paper Award in Geometric Analysis at the 2024 ICCM

Francesco Lin, Associate Professor, earned The Richard Hamilton Best Paper Award in Geometric Analysis at the 2024 Annual International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians for his paper “The Seiberg-Witten Equations and […]

Professor Dusa McDuff honored with AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement

Professor Dusa McDuff will receive the 2025 American Mathematical Society Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. […]

Richard Streit Hamilton 1943-2024

We are deeply saddened to inform you that our colleague Richard Hamilton passed away on Sunday, September 29, 2024. Richard was a giant of mathematics who has inspired generations of […]

Ellis R. Kolchin Lecture

Please join us on Wednesday, October 2 for the distinguished Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture. Dennis Gaitsgory will give a special talk titled “On the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture”…(more)