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MoSAIC Math & Art Festival

Columbia University will be hosting a festival celebrating the connections between mathematics and the arts on Saturday-Sunday, October 25-26, 2014, from 10 am to 5 pm each day. The festival will be held at Columbia Secondary School… (more)

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures

Prof. Simon Brendle (Stanford University) will give a weekly lecture every Friday during the Fall 2014 semester for the Samuel Eilenberg Lecture Series.
Title: “Partial Differential Equations in Geometry”… (more)

Andrei Okounkov Selected as Simons Investigator

Prof. Andrei Okounkov was recently chosen as to receive the Simons Investigator Award under the Simons Foundation Investigators Program for 2014… (more)

Robert Friedman Awarded the Mark Van Doren Teaching Award

The Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching has been awarded annually since 1962 to deserving members of the Columbia faculty… (more)

Spring 2014 Kolchin Lecture by Prof. Melvin Hochster

Prof. Hochster will deliver a talk titled: “Bounding syzygies and the nature of subrings of polynomial rings” on May 1, 2014… (more)

Spring 2014 Ritt Lectures by Prof. Fernando Coda Marques

The Spring 2014 Ritt Lectures by Prof. Fernando Codá Marques (IMPA) will take place on Monday, April 28, 2014 & Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Prof. Codá Marques will deliver a […]

Spring 2014 Minerva Lecture Series by Prof. Alexei Borodin

The Spring 2014 Minerva Lectures by Prof. Alexei Borodin (MIT) will take place during the week of April 21, 2014. Prof. Borodin will deliver the following talks: “Macdonald processes” Abstract: […]

Columbia-Princeton Probability Day 2014

On Friday, April 11, 2014, the annual Columbia-Princeton Probability Day conference will take place at Columbia University’s Northwest Corner Building. The scheduled speakers are: •Martin Barlow (U. British Columbia) •Thierry […]

Ivan Corwin Awarded the 2014 Rollo Davidson Prize

Congratulations to Ivan Corwin for being awarded the prestigious Rollo Davidson prize in Probability for 2014. This award recognizes Prof. Corwin’s outstanding achievements in the area of stochastic growth processes […]

Spring 2014 Minerva Lecture Series by Prof. Martin Hairer

The Spring 2014 Minerva Lectures by Prof. Martin Hairer (University of Warwick) will take place during the week of February 24, 2014. Prof. Hairer will deliver a five talk series […]