Upcoming and past conferences
16th Southeastern Lie Theory Workshop — ICM 2026 Satellite Conference
Event start date: Friday, July 17, 2026
The 16th Southeastern Lie Theory Workshop, an ICM 2026 Satellite Conference, will be held at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA from July 17–21, 2026. The workshop is funded by the NSF and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at UVA. Registration is free and open.
Conference website with details
Organizers: Pramod Achar (LSU), Kailash Misra (NCSU), Daniel Nakano (UGA), You Qi (UVA)
2026 Blue Ridge Probability Day
Event date: Friday, March 13, 2026
The second Blue Ridge Probability Day will occur on Friday, March 13, 2026 in Kerchof 111. The speakers are
- Yu Gu (University of Maryland)
- Eva Loeser (UNC Chapel Hill)
- Mark Meckes (Case Western Reserve University)
- David P. Herzog (Iowa State University)
Virginia Topology Conference 2025
Event start date: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
The Virginia Topology Conference 2025: New Developments in 4-Manifold Topology will be held on December 10-11, 2025, at the University of Virginia, Department of Mathematics, Charlottesville, VA.
See the departmental page and the conference website for more information.
Riverside Workshop on Geometric Group Theory at UVA
Event date: Friday, May 9, 2025
The University of Virginia will host a workshop for early career mathematicians working in geometric group theory on May 9-12, 2025. The workshop will feature three minicourse series by Harrison Bray (George Mason), Didac Martinez-Granado (Luxembourg/NUS), and Jenya Sapir (Binghamton), with introductory talks by Madeline Horton, Meenakshy Jyothis, and Aisha Mechery. The talks are aimed at graduate students and postdocs and will be accompanied by discussion sections. Remote access will be available via Zoom.
The workshop is organized by Matthew Gentry Durham (UCR) and Thomas Koberda (UVA), and is supported by NSF grant DMS-2500706.
Mid-Atlantic Topology Conference 2025
Event start date: Saturday, March 22, 2025
The Mid-Atlantic Topology Conference 2025 (MATC-25) will be held at the University of Virginia from March 22-23, 2025, celebrating Nicholas Kuhn ‘s 70th birthday!
2024 Blue Ridge Probability Day
Event date: Friday, October 4, 2024
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
- Shalin Parekh (Maryland)
- Greta Panova (USC)
- Nicholas Cook (Duke)
Randomness and Lie-theoretic structures
Event start date: Monday, March 4, 2024
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.
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.
2023 Southeastern Probability Conference II
Event start date: Monday, August 14, 2023
The 2023 Southeastern Probability Conference II will be held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA on Aug 14-15, 2023. (There will be two meetings in the conference series this year. The 2023 Southeastern Probability Conference I will be at Duke University on May 15-16, 2023.)
New Developments in 3- and 4-Manifold Topology 2023
Event start date: Monday, June 5, 2023
Workshop New Developments in 3- and 4-Manifold Topology will be held on June 5-7, 2023, at the University of Virginia, Department of Mathematics, Charlottesville, VA.
Please note the nearby Richmond Geometry Meeting at Virginia Commonwealth University on June 2-4, 2023.
Arithmetic Geometry and Algebraic Groups conference, May 24-28, 2023
Event start date: Wednesday, May 24, 2023
The conference on Arithmetic Geometry and Algebraic Groups will be held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA on May 24-28, 2023. The conference will bring together researchers working in arithmetic geometry and the theory of algebraic groups to discuss the latest achievements in both areas and specifically the recent results at their meeting ground. This conference is supported by the NSF grant DMS-2305231, by the Institute for mathematical sciences, and by the University of Virginia.
Reflections on mathematical fluid dynamics
Event start date: Saturday, March 11, 2023
The conference “Reflections on mathematical fluid dynamics” will be held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA on March 11-12, 2023, in Clark 102.
Conference schedule
Virginia Topology Conference 2021
Event start date: Friday, November 5, 2021
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.
VOTCAM 2020
Event date: Saturday, October 3, 2020
The 2020 Virginia Operator Theory and Complex Analysis Meeting (VOTCAM), will be held on Saturday, October 3rd.
In order to participate you will need to register your email here. On October 1st, everyone that registers will receive a Zoom link you can use to attend the talks.
Cancelled: 2020 Mid-Atlantic Algebra, Geometry, and Combinatorics
Event start date: Friday, March 13, 2020
The seventh annual Mid-Atlantic Algebra, Geometry, and Combinatorics (MAAGC) workshop (March 13-15, 2020) is cancelled due to COVID-19
CANCELLED: 2020 AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Event start date: Friday, March 13, 2020
The 2020 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society March 13-15, 2020 at University of Virginia is cancelled due to COVID-19
Representations of Algebraic Groups and Quantum Groups
Event start date: Thursday, March 12, 2020
Department of Mathematics and Institute of Mathematical Science will hold the workshop on Representations of Algebraic Groups and Quantum Groups.
PDF Poster
Organizers: Dan Nakano (University of Georgia) Andrei Rapinchuk Weiqiang Wang
Mid-Atlantic Topology Seminar 2019
Event date: Saturday, October 26, 2019
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.
Virginia Integrable Probability Summer School
Event start date: Monday, May 27, 2019
From May 27 to June 8, 2019, Department of Mathematics of University of Virginia organizes a two-week summer school in Integrable Probability. The aim of the school is to educate the participants in recent trends around Integrable Probability - a rapidly developing field at the interface of probability / mathematical physics / statistical physics on the one hand, and representation theory / integrable systems on the other.
Virginia Topology Conference 2018
Event start date: Wednesday, December 12, 2018
he 2018 Virginia Topology Conference will have a focus on new methods in the study of smooth topology of 4-dimensional manifolds, recent developments in Heegaard Floer theory, gauge theory, and related invariants, and the interactions between these fields.
Workshop on Representation Theory, Combinatorics, and Geometry
Event start date: Friday, October 19, 2018
Department of Mathematics and Institute of Mathematical Science hold the Workshop on Representation Theory, Combinatorics, and Geometry on October 19-21, 2018. The workshop precedes the Virginia Mathematics Lectures by Andrei Okounkov (October 22-24, 2018).
Workshop schedule with PDFs of some talks • (PDF)
Organizers: Jennifer Morse Leonid Petrov Weiqiang Wang
Women's Intellectual Network Research Symposium
Event date: Saturday, September 15, 2018
A one day conference featuring plenary talks, student talks, poster session, a career and mentoring panel, AWM Student Chapter discussion, and tutorials at all levels.
CIRMATH-Americas
Event start date: Monday, May 28, 2018
A conference on the role of journals in mathematics hosted by Professor Karen Parshall and sponsored by IMS will be held at University of Virginia from May 28 to 30, 2018.
Virginia Topology Conference 2017: Hyperbolic 3-manifolds and beyond
Event start date: Friday, November 10, 2017
This conference is in conjunction with and immediately followed by the Fall 2017 Virginia Mathematics Lectures, to be given by Yair Minsky.
VOTCAM 2017
Event date: Saturday, October 28, 2017
The Virginia Operator Theory and Complex Analysis Meeting (VOTCAM) is an annual meeting of analysts that has been held at various Virginia colleges and universities since 1992. This year VOTCAM is at University of Virginia in Charlottesville on October 28th, 2017.
VOTCAM website: https://votcam.wordpress.com/
Workshop on Elliptic Curves, Torsors, and L-functions, March 24-27, 2017
Event start date: Friday, March 24, 2017
Workshop on Elliptic Curves, Torsors, and L-functions is held at University of Virginia on March 24-27, 2017. The workshop is followed by the lectures of B. H. Gross in the distinguished lecture series Virginia Mathematics Lectures. The lecures are held on March 27-29, 2017
Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2017
Event start date: Wednesday, March 8, 2017
The Seminar on Stochastic Processes (SSP) in 2017 will be held from Wednesday, March 8, through Saturday, March 11. It will be hosted by the University of Virginia. Conference webpage.
The organizers gratefully acknowledge financial support for the conference from the National Science Foundation and the Chung family.
For general information about this conference series please visit the main homepage for the Seminar on Stochastic Processes.
Workshop on Geometric Group Theory and Geometric Topology
Event start date: Friday, October 16, 2015
Workshop on Geometric Group Theory and Geometric Topology, October 16 - 17, 2015.
Mid-Atlantic Topology Conference 2015
Event start date: Saturday, April 25, 2015
Mid-Atlantic Topology Conference 2015, April 25 - 26, 2015.
The conference will focus on the interactions between homotopy theory and group cohomology, with a special focus on the contributions of Nick Kuhn. Happy 60th Birthday, Nick!
Harmonic Analysis and the Renormalization Group
Event start date: Friday, April 18, 2014
Harmonic Analysis and the Renormalization Group, April 18 - 21, 2014.
Virginia Operator Theory and Complex Analysis Meeting (VOTCAM)
Event date: Saturday, October 12, 2013
Virginia Operator Theory and Complex Analysis Meeting (VOTCAM), October 12, 2013. The conference is in honor of Tom Kriete and Barbara MacCluer.
Conference on the Occasion of the Retirement of Larry Thomas
Event start date: Friday, March 8, 2013
Recent Mathematical Advances in Classical, Quantum, and Statistical Mechanics, March 8-9, 2013. Conference on the occasion of the retirement of Larry Thomas.
Southeastern Lie Theory Workshops
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Southeastern Lie Theory Workshop Series, 2009-2014.
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UVA (2016)