The US Olympic swim team boasts six current or former UVa students, including the “fastest mathematician in the pool,” Kate Douglass. Douglass earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematical statistics from UVa in 2023 and is now a graduate student in Statistics; she has been working on research with mathematics professor Ken Ono. In turn, Professor Ono has been working with the UVa swim team, using mathematical tools to hone technique and boost speeds in the pool. He was featured in a recent article in the New York Times (subscription may be required).
We are pleased to recognize Louisa Liles and Valentina Zapata Castro for winning the 2023-24 Outstanding Mathematics Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. Congratulations!
Thomas Koberda has been awarded a Shannon Mid-Career Fellowship by the Provost’s office, starting fall 2024. Congratulations!
More information and a list of 2023 Fellows is here
Catherine Cossaboom, a third-year math (and cognitive science) major, has been awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, one of only two recipients this year at UVa and among 508 nationwide. Here is the UVA Today article. Congratulations, Catherine!
Event start date: 2024/10/28
Alan Reid (Rice University)
Finite shadows of infinite groups: What do they hide?
- Lecture 1: Monday, October 28, 2024 - Exploring infinite groups by finite quotients
- Lecture 2: Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - What is profinite rigidity?
- Lecture 3: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - Grothendieck’s Problem and detecting finitely generated versus finitely presented
2024 Mathematics Final Exercises Ceremony
Event date: 2024/05/18
Final Exercises for the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences will take place on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. on the Lawn.
The ceremony times and locations for the Mathematics Department Diploma Ceremony are listed below (11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.):
Fair Weather: Pavilion I, Lower Garden
Inclement or Severe Weather: Warner Hall, Room 209
Randomness and Lie-theoretic structures
Event start date: 2024/03/04
The two-day conference Randomness and Lie-theoretic structures will be held at University of Virginia on March 4-5, 2024. Speakers include Ben Brubaker (Minnesota), Laura Colmenarejo (North Carolina State University), Jimmy He (MIT), Jeffrey Kuan (Texas A&M), Colin McSwiggen (NYU Courant), Jennifer Morse (University of Virginia), Slava Naprienko (UNC Chapel Hill), Siddhartha Sahi (Rutgers), Mark Shimozono (Virginia Tech), and there will be short participant talks. Financial support is available for graduate students and early career researchers through the 4-VA Virginia Collaborative Research Initiative.
Organizers: Daniel Orr (Virginia Tech) and Leonid Petrov (UVA)
This conference follows a workshop Quantum Structures in Lie Theory which is on March 1-3, 2024.
Quantum Structures in Lie Theory
Event start date: 2024/03/01
The 14th Southeastern Lie Theory Workshop Series will be held at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA from March 1 – 3, 2024. The event will feature a minicourse series by Ivan Losev from Yale University, and speakers Thomas Haines (University of Maryland), Iva Halacheva (Northeastern), Naihuan Jing (NC State), Kang Lu (UVA), Julia Plavnik (Indiana University Bloomington), Oleksandr Tsymbaliuk (Purdue). Registration is now open.
Local organizers: Kang Lu Jennifer Morse You Qi Weiqiang Wang
The workshop is followed by a two-day conference Randomness and Lie-theoretic structures organized by Daniel Orr (Virginia Tech) and Leonid Petrov (UVA)
Job opportunities 2024
The Department of Mathematics at the University of Virginia invites applications for the following positions (links to mathjobs ads):
- Assistant Professor of Mathematics (tenure track), focus areas: Analysis and Probability
- Assistant Professor, General Faculty (2 positions)
- RTG Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer, in Topology and geometry
Kavita Ramanan - Virginia Mathematics Lectures - November 13-15, 2023
Event start date: 2023/11/13
Kavita Ramanan (Brown University) - Tales of high-dimensional distributions
Though they have a common thread, the three lectures will be self-contained, and can mostly be followed independently of each other.
- Lecture 1: November 13 | 5-6pm | Wilson 402
- Lecture 2: November 14 | 5-6pm | Nau 101
- Lecture 3: November 15 | 5-6pm | Wilson 402
2023 Southeastern Probability Conference II
Event start date: 2023/08/14
The 2023 Southeastern Probability Conference II will be held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA on Aug 14-15, 2023. (There will be two meetings in the conference series this year. The 2023 Southeastern Probability Conference I will be at Duke University on May 15-16, 2023.)