# News and events at Department of Mathematics

### 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
1. 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.

2. 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.

### Peter Sarnak - Virginia Mathematics Lectures - November 4-6, 2019

##### Peter Sarnak (IAS)
• Lecture 1 - “Integral Quadratic Forms and Applications”. November 4, 5-6pm, Nau 101
• Lecture 2 - “Integer points on affine cubic surfaces”. November 5, 5-6pm, Monroe 124
• Lecture 3 - “Applications of points on subvarieties of tori”. November 6, 5-6pm, Nau 101

### Lunch with Sherry Gong (UCLA)

###### Event date: 2019/09/04

This week, the AWM met with Sherry Gong, an Assitant Adjunct Professor at UCLA.