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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 two talk series titled: “Min-max minimal surfaces and applications” Abstract: We will present general constructions of unstable minimal surfaces, and discuss several recent applications to […]

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: Our goal is to explain how certain basic representation theoretic ideas and constructions encapsulated in the form of Macdonald processes lead to nontrivial asymptotic results […]

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 Bodineau (Ecole Polytechnique) •Steve Lalley (U. Chicago) •Subhro Ghosh (Princeton University) •Clement Hongler (Columbia University) •Jason Miller (MIT) For more information regarding the talks, please […]

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 and their relation to integrable systems.

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 titled: “Regularity Structures” Abstract: When considering the large-scale behaviour of physical models arising naturally in statistical mechanics, one is often lead to stochastic partial differential […]

Fall 2013 Ritt Lectures by Professor Sir Simon Donaldson

The Fall 2013 Ritt Lectures by Professor Sir Simon Donaldson will take place on November 7th and November 8th. Professor Donaldson (Imperial College; Simons Center for Geometry and Physics) will deliver a two talk series titled: “Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds” Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 5:30pm in Room 312 Math Friday, November 8, 2013 […]

Eugene Gorsky Awarded 2013 Prize of the Moscow Mathematical Society

Eugene Gorsky has been awarded the 2013 Prize of the Moscow Mathematical Society for his work “The homology of algebraic knots”. The prize is awarded to young scientists for work or series of works on mathematics, representing a significant scientific interest.