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Special Colloquium (1/22, Alex Petrov)

Special Colloquium Speaker: Alex Petrov (MIT) Title: Topology of algebraic varieties in positive characteristic Abstract: One fruitful way to analyze the topology of an algebraic variety over complex numbers is […]

Alum Robin Zhang’s 2023 Columbia PhD thesis awarded the Graduate Thesis Award at the 2024 ICCM for the best PhD theses by mathematicians of Chinese descent

Alum Robin Zhang‘s 2023 Columbia PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Michael Harris, The Harris—Venkatesh conjecture for derived Hecke operators, was awarded the Graduate Thesis Award (Gold Prize) at the […]

Prof. Francesco Lin awarded The Richard Hamilton Best Paper Award in Geometric Analysis at the 2024 ICCM

Francesco Lin, Associate Professor, earned The Richard Hamilton Best Paper Award in Geometric Analysis at the 2024 Annual International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians for his paper “The Seiberg-Witten Equations and […]

Professor Dusa McDuff honored with AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement

Professor Dusa McDuff will receive the 2025 American Mathematical Society Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. […]

Richard Streit Hamilton 1943-2024

We are deeply saddened to inform you that our colleague Richard Hamilton passed away on Sunday, September 29, 2024. Richard was a giant of mathematics who has inspired generations of […]

Ellis R. Kolchin Lecture

Please join us on Wednesday, October 2 for the distinguished Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture. Dennis Gaitsgory will give a special talk titled “On the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture”…(more)

In Memoriam: Walter D. Neumann

It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we inform you of the death of Prof. Walter Neumann, who passed away yesterday…(more)

Professor Richard Hamilton wins Chinese Basic Science Lifetime Award in Mathematics.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Richard Hamilton on being awarded the Chinese Basic Science Lifetime Award in Mathematics by the International Congress of Basic Science.  (more)

Columbia News highlights the experience of Ritt Assistant Professor Amadou Bah

In a new publication of “Office Hours”, Columbia News interviews Ritt Assistant Professor Amadou Bah about his experience “Teaching Math on the Global Stage”…(more)

Professor Duong H. Phong elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Please join us in congratulating Professor Duong H. Phong on his recent election to the National Academy of Sciences!