News and events at Department of Mathematics
Thesis defense: Badri Pandey
Event date: 2022/11/15
Badri Pandey will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Tuesday, November 15. The title is
“On higher Turan inequalities for the plane partitions, ellipsoidal T-designs, and j-inversion”.
- Date: Tuesday, November 15.
- Time: 12:30 pm EST
- Place: Dell Building #1, room 104
Everyone is invited to attend.
Thesis defense: William Craig
Event date: 2022/11/07
William Craig will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Monday, November 7. The title is
“On the coefficients of q-series and modular forms”.
- Date: Monday, November 7.
- Time: 12:00 pm EST
- Place: Kerchof Hall room 317
Everyone is invited to attend.
Former UVA REU student receives 2023 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize
2022/11/03
Letong (Carina) Hong, formerly of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), receives the 2023 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize for solving conjectures and proven important results in combinatorics, number theory, and probability. Hong participated in the REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) at University of Virginia. The prize is made jointly by the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Martin Hairer - Virginia Mathematics Lectures - November 29 - December 1, 2022
Event start date: 2022/11/29
Martin Hairer (Imperial College London)
Lecture 1. “Taming infinities”
November 29, 5-6pm, Nau 101. Accessible to mathematics majors.
Lecture 2. “Stochastic quantisation of Yang-Mills”
November 30, 5-6pm, Nau 101
Lecture 3. “Symmetries and renormalisation”
December 1, 5-6pm, Nau 101
Tenure Track Job Opportunities 2022
2022/10/19
The Department of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, invites applications for a tenure-track full-time position, with a focus on the area of Algebraic Topology.
Postdoctoral Job Opportunities 2022
2022/09/27
The Department of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, invites applications for two Whyburn Research Associate and Lecturer postdoctoral positions.
Three of the six MAA Distinguished Lecturers 2022-2023
2022/09/19
Three of the six Math MAA Distinguished Lecturers 2022-2023 have UVA connections: Karen Parshall, Commonwealth Professor of Mathematics and History; Ken Ono, Chairman and Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics; and Della Dumbaugh, Professor of Mathematics from University of Richmond and 1994 UVA Math PhD.
Performance of “Diving into Math with Emmy Noether”
Event date: 2022/09/08
UVA Mathematics and UVA Physics, in cooperation with UVA Departments of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Department of History, and College of Arts and Sciences, are delighted to host a performance of “Diving into Math with Emmy Noether”.
- Thursday, September 8, at 7pm. Old Cabell Hall Auditorium. Free of charge.