Event start date: 2021/11/08
Curtis McMullen (Harvard)
- Lecture 1 - “Solving the quintic by iteration”. Monday, November 8, 2021. Time and location TBA.
- Lecture 2 - “Billiards and moduli spaces”. Tuesday, November 9, 2021. Time and location TBA.
- Lecture 3 - “Rigidity for planes in flexible 3-manifolds”. Wednesday, November 10, 2021. Time and location TBA.
The lectures are preceded by the Virginia Topology Conference.
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We are pleased to recognize Peter Johnson for winning one of this year’s ten All-University Graduate Teaching Awards. We appreciate all of your hard work, congratulations!
Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Morse named a 2021 Simons Fellow in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year, enabling recipients to focus solely on research for the long periods often necessary for significant advances.
Ken Ono, Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics, has won the 2020 UVA Distinguished Spotlight Researcher Award. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Commonwealth Professor of Mathematics and History Karen Parshall who was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, “for outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics, combined with extraordinary service to the mathematical and historical sciences.”
Job Opportunities 2021
- The Department of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, invites applications for two postdoctoral positions: Whyburn Research Associate and Lecturer and Mary Ann Pitts Research Associate and Lecturer.
- The Department of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, invites applications for two RTG (Research Training Group) postdoctoral Research Associate positions, in the fields of geometry and topology.
Virginia Topology Conference 2021
Event start date: 2021/11/05
Virginia Topology Conference “Geometry and Dynamics in Hyperbolic Spaces” will be held on November 5-7, 2021, at the University of Virginia.
The conference will be followed by the Virginia Mathematics Lectures series, from November 8th to 10th, 2021. This year’s speaker will be Curtis McMullen from Harvard University. For additional information see here.
2021 Undergraduate Award Winners
The Mathematics Department is pleased to announce the following prize winners for the 2020-2021 year:
- E.J. McShane Prize:
- Zachary Baugher
- Edwin E. Floyd Prize:
- Zachary Carlini
- Spencer Martin
- Casia Siegel
- Michael Stepniczka
- Sean Stuhlsatz
Virginia Math Bulletin 2020
Presenting the seventh issue of the Department newsletter: 2020 Virginia Math Bulletin.