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Spring 2026 Samuel Eilenberg Lectures

Starting Tues. Jan 27th, the Spring 2026 Samuel Eilenberg Lectures will take place on Tuesdays at 2:40 – 3:55 PM in Room 520, Mathematics Hall. Professor Robert Bryant will deliver a series of lectures titled Non-classical PDE in Differential Geometry. Flyer Many systems of partial differential equations that arise naturally in differential geometry do not fit […]

Nov. 13th COLLOQUIUM: Sheldon Katz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Title: The reasonable effectiveness of physics in mathematics Speaker: Sheldon Katz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Date, Time, Location: Thursday, Nov. 13th @3PM – 4PM in Math Hall 520 Abstract: One of the reasons why theoretical physics has spawned the development of many surprising and deep ideas of mathematics in recent decades is the presence of symmetries […]

Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture | Nov. 12: Haruzo Hida (UCLA)

Please join us on Wednesday, November 12th for the distinguished Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture. Haruzo Hida (UCLA) will give a special talk titled “Adjoint L-value and the Tate conjecture” Time & Location: Wednesday, November 12 @ 4:30pm Mathematics Hall, Room 520 2990 Broadway New York, N.Y. 10027

Remembering the Life and Work of Richard Streit Hamilton: Memorial on 9/28/25

A memorial for Professor Richard Streit Hamilton will be held on Sunday, September 28th. Please complete this form to attend by 9/14. Find the schedule of events for “Remembering the Life and Work of Richard Streit Hamilton” here.

Lars Tyge Nielsen Memorial Conference

The Lars Tyge Nielsen Memorial Conference is on April 25th from 1-7PM. This is a day to honor our late director of the MAFN program Lars Tyge Nielsen. The Memorial Conference will be held at the Innovation Hub of Columbia Engineering (2276 12th Ave, New York, NY 10027) on April 25th, 2025. Register Here.  

Spring 2025 Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures

The Spring 2025 Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures will be delivered by Professor Gunther Uhlmann on Wed. April 16th @ 4:30 p.m. in room 520 and on Thurs. April 17th @ 2:45 p.m in room 520. Flyer Click here for details.

Spring 2025 Minerva Foundation Lectures

Starting Tues. Jan 21st, the Spring 2025 Minerva Foundation Lectures will take place on Tuesdays at 4:10 p.m. in room 507. [Jan. 21 – March 14, 2025] Professor Rama Cont (Oxford), will deliver a series of lectures titled Rough Calculus. Lecture Series Info Sheet Flyer The Ito calculus may be viewed as an extension of […]

Math Library Ribbon Cutting will be on Wednesday, February 5

The Math Library Ribbon cutting ceremony will be on Wednesday, February 5th from 1:15PM – 1:45PM. Come join us in celebrating the renovated library!

Special Colloquium (1/28, Lue Pan)

Special Colloquium Speaker: Lue Pan (Princeton University) Title: The Fontaine-Mazur conjecture in dimension two Abstract: The Fontaine-Mazur conjecture predicts which two-dimensional p-adic representations of the absolute Galois group of Q arise from modular forms. In this talk, I will explain this conjecture by some concrete examples and report some recent progress which relies on some […]

Special Colloquium (1/23, Alex Smith)

Special Colloquium Speaker: Alex Smith (UCLA) Title: The distribution of conjugates of an algebraic integer Abstract: For every odd prime p, the number 2 + 2cos(2 pi/p) is an algebraic integer whose conjugates are all positive numbers; such a number is known as a totally positive algebraic integer. For large p, the average of the […]