Upcoming and past IMS special events
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)
Quantum Structures in Lie Theory
Event start date: Friday, March 1, 2024
The 14th Southeastern Lie Theory Workshop Series will be held at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA from March 1 – 3, 2024. The event will feature a minicourse series by Ivan Losev from Yale University, and speakers Thomas Haines (University of Maryland), Iva Halacheva (Northeastern), Naihuan Jing (NC State), Kang Lu (UVA), Julia Plavnik (Indiana University Bloomington), Oleksandr Tsymbaliuk (Purdue). Registration is now open.
Local organizers:
Jennifer Morse You Qi Weiqiang Wang
The workshop is followed by a two-day conference Randomness and Lie-theoretic structures organized by Daniel Orr (Virginia Tech) and Leonid Petrov (UVA)
Ingrid Daubechies Colloquium and Public Lecture
Event date: Monday, September 14, 2020
Department of Mathematics is very happy to welcome Ingrid Daubechies for a virtual visit on Monday, September 14 and Tuesday, September 15. Here is the information about the events (all times in EDT; password is the speaker’s first name in lowercase):
- Colloquium: Monday, September 14, 4:00pm at https://virginia.zoom.us/j/94098593565
- Public Talk: Monday, September 14, 7:00pm at https://virginia.zoom.us/j/96310657012
- AWM Q&A Panel: Tuesday, September 15, 12:00pm (zoom link at https://math.virginia.edu/awm/calendar/)
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
Public lecture by Diane Hoffoss
Event date: Monday, October 21, 2019
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.
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.
Public Lecture by Jacob Sherson - April 19, 2018
Event date: Thursday, April 19, 2018
A Public Lecture by Jacob Sherson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark and ScienceAtHome) entitled
Citizen science: benchmarking human and artificial intelligence
will be given on April 19 at 7:00pm in Clark 108
The event is cosponsored by the IMS and Departments of Mathematics and Physics
IMS Special lectures - Barry Simon - February 26 and 28, 2018
Event start date: Monday, February 26, 2018
The UVa Department of Mathematics & The Institute of Mathematical Sciences present Special Lectures by Barry Simon (California Institute of Technology) entitled
Tales of Our Forefathers
Schedule, abstracts, and PDF slides »
Virginia Analysis Lectures 2015-16
Part of the 2015-2016 focus year in analysis sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Science at the University of Virginia
“Mathemagics with Dr. Arthur Benjamin" The Mathematician and Magician - Sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Science
Event date: Monday, March 23, 2015
In his entertaining and fast-paced performance, Dr. Benjamin shows how to mentally add and multiply faster than a calculator, improve your memory for numbers and figure that days of the week for any day in history… and more!