Upcoming and past conferences

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)

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)

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.

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.

See the Riverside Workshop on Geometric Group Theory website for the workshop program and participation information.

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!

Mid-Atlantic Topology Conference website

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)

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.

Conference website

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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 “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 Curtis McMullen Virginia Mathematics Lectures.

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 for VOTCAM 2020. On October 1st, everyone that registers will receive a Zoom link you can use to attend the talks.

The seventh annual Mid-Atlantic Algebra, Geometry, and Combinatorics (MAAGC) workshop (March 13-15, 2020) is cancelled due to COVID-19

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

Department of Mathematics and Institute of Mathematical Science will hold the workshop on Representations of Algebraic Groups and Quantum Groups.

Workshop poster text (HTML) · Workshop poster (PDF)

Organizers: Dan Nakano (University of Georgia)   Andrei Rapinchuk    Weiqiang Wang

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.

• Details and registration
• Geometry, Topology group page

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.

School website

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.

Conference website

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

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.

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.

This conference is in conjunction with and immediately followed by the Fall 2017 Virginia Mathematics Lectures, to be given by Yair Minsky.

Conference website

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 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

• B. H. Gross lectures

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, October 16 - 17, 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, April 18 - 21, 2014.

Virginia Operator Theory and Complex Analysis Meeting (VOTCAM), October 12, 2013. The conference is in honor of Tom Kriete and Barbara MacCluer.

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 Workshop Series, 2009-2014.

• NCSU(2015)

• UVA (2016)