UVA Math Proud of USA Swimmers

Kate Douglass swimming

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).

GTA Teaching Awards

Louisa Liles and Valentina Zapata Castro

We are pleased to recognize Louisa Liles and Valentina Zapata Castro for winning the 2023-24 Outstanding Mathematics Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. Congratulations!

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Thomas Koberda Receives Shannon Mid-Career Fellowship

Thomas Koberda

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

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Catherine Cossaboom is Awarded Goldwater Scholarship

Catherine Cossaboom

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!

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AWM Colloquium: Linda Chen (Swarthmore College)
Event date: 2024/10/17
Colloquium poster

“Enumerative Geometry, Combinatorics, and Algebra: An Exploration of Hilbert’s Fifteenth Problem and More!”

On Thursday, October 17, 2024, we are excited to host the inaugural AWM Colloquium by Professor Linda Chen, an algebraic geometer from Swarthmore College, at 5:00 PM in Kerchof 111.

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Alan Reid - Virginia Mathematics Lectures - October 28-30, 2024

Alan Reid
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, 5-6PM, Wilson 402 - Exploring infinite groups by finite quotients
  • Lecture 2: Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 5-6PM, Wilson 402 - What is profinite rigidity?
  • Lecture 3: Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 5-6PM, Wilson 402 - Grothendieck’s Problem and detecting finitely generated versus finitely presented

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Job opportunities 2025

UVA Lawn

The Department of Mathematics at the University of Virginia invites applications for the following positions (links to mathjobs ads):

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2024 Blue Ridge Probability Day

Humpback Rocks
Event date: 2024/10/04

The inaugural Blue Ridge Probability Day will occur on Friday, October 4, 2024, in Kerchof 111, from 1:00-5:00 PM. The speakers are

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2024 Mathematics Final Exercises Ceremony

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

UVA Rotunda - source of enlightenment
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.

Conference website

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

UVA Rotunda
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.

Workshop website with details

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)