The Mathematics department offers our condolences to professor emerita Joan Birman, on the loss of her husband of 66 years, Joseph Birman, who passed away on October 1.

Joseph Birman was a Distinguished Professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York, and known for his work on human rights (the Committee of Concerned Scientists has an obituary here).

The New York Times has an obituary here.

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Title: Hodge structures, coniveau and algebraic cycles
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Canonical bases and algebraic geometry
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Motivic DT-type invariants and 3d mirror symmetry
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Nonlocal vector calculus and asymptotically compatible schemes
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Isoperimetric inequalities for Ramanujan complexes and topological expanders
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How many real roots does a random polynomial have?
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Toward a recursive algorithm of GW invariants of quintic CY threefolds
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The Sloan Foundation has announced the award of a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship to Mathematics department faculty member Valentino Tosatti.

A list of previous fellowships can be found at the Sloan Foundation website at http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/past-fellows/

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From June 4-8 the mathematics department will host a conference on Probability, Control and Finance, in honor of mathematics faculty member and chair Ioannis Karatzas.

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