News and events at Department of Mathematics
Greg Lawler — Virginia Mathematics Lectures, February 12-14, 2020
Event start date: 2020/02/12
Greg Lawler (University of Chicago)
- Lecture 1 - “Random walks: simple and self-avoiding”. Wednesday, February 12, 2020. Time and location TBA
- Lecture 2 - “Conformal invariance and two-dimensional critical phenomenon”. Thursday, February 13, 2020. Time and location TBA
- Lecture 3 - “Loop measures and the loop-erased random walk”. Friday, February 13, 2020. Time and location TBA
Representations of Algebraic Groups and Quantum Groups
Event start date: 2020/03/12
Department of Mathematics and Institute of Mathematical Science will hold the workshop on Representations of Algebraic Groups and Quantum Groups.
The workshop is followed by an AMS special session on “Representations of algebraic groups and quantum groups: a tribute to Cline-Parshall-Scott (CPS)”, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 13-15, 2020
Organizers: Dan Nakano (University of Georgia) Andrei Rapinchuk Weiqiang Wang
Virginia Math Bulletin, November 2019
2019/11/10
Presenting the sixth issue of the Department newsletter: 2019 Virginia Math Bulletin.
Huanchen Bao and Weiqiang Wang Will Receive the 2020 Chevalley Prize
2019/11/07
The 2020 Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory will be awarded to Huanchen Bao and Weiqiang Wang for their fundamental contributions to the theory of quantum symmetric pairs.
Public lecture by Diane Hoffoss
Event date: 2019/10/21
Public lecture by Prof. Diane Hoffoss (University of San Diego) “Unfolding Humanity: Mathematics at Burning Man” will be on October 21 at 5:30pm in Physics Building 204. The public talk is for general audience.
Diane will visit UVa on October 21-22, see here for a full schedule of events and more details.
Upcoming mathematics competitions
2019/10/01
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The Virginia Tech Regional Math Competition will be held on Saturday, October 26, from 9am to 11:30 am. The exam will be held in Clark 101. Interested students should arrive by 8:30 am for registration formalities. No prior registration is required.
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The Putnam competition will be held on Saturday, December 7, from 10 am to 6 pm, with a two hour lunch break between sessions. The exam will be held in New Cabell Hall, room 323. Interested students should arrive by 9:30 am for registration formalities. No prior registration is required.
Future competition announcements will be posted on the special page.
Mid-Atlantic Topology Seminar 2019
Event date: 2019/10/26
There will be a one day Mid-Atlantic Topology Seminar at University of Virginia on Saturday, October 26. Speakers will be:
- Maria Basterra (University of New Hampshire)
- Mona Merling (University of Pennsylvania)
- Dylan Wilson (University of Chicago)
- W. Stephen Wilson (Johns Hopkins University)
This seminar is a regional conference with a goal of bringing together the mid-Atlantic algebraic topology community. It will also serve as one of the inaugural activities for the NSF RTG grant that the Topology and Geometry group at UVA recently received.
Thesis defense: Aleksander Morgan
Event date: 2019/09/19
Aleksander Morgan will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Thursday, September 19. The title is
“Bounded generation of some linear groups”.
- Date: Thursday, September 19
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: Kerchof 317
Everyone is invited to attend.