Columbia counts six faculty members among the invited speakers at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, more than any other institution. They are Mohammed Abouzaid, Maria Chudnovsky, Ivan Corwin, Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Michael Harris, and Davesh Maulik. They join fourteen current Columbia faculty who have given invited addresses at past Congresses. Congratulations to all […]
Prof. Joe Harris (Harvard University) will give a weekly lecture every Friday during the Fall 2013 semester for the Samuel Eilenberg Lecture Series. The lectures begin on Friday, September 6, 2013. Title: Parameter Spaces in Algebraic Geometry Abstract: One of the most fundamental aspects of algebraic geometry is the existence of parameter spaces: in other […]
The GTiNY Conference will be held at Columbia University from Monday, August 12, 2013 through Friday, August 16, 2013. Mathematics Building, Room 312 Please click HERE for more information regarding the conference.
Analysis, Complex Geometry, and Mathematical Physics: A Conference in Honor of Duong H. Phong Tuesday, May 7, 2013 – Saturday, May 11, 2013 *Conference Program*
Congratulations to Dusa McDuff for her election as a member of the American Philosophical Society. The APS promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
Congratulations to Herve Jacquet & Duong H. Phong for their election as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Academy is an international learned society aimed to elect membership to men and women of exceptional achievement drawn from science, scholarship, business, public affairs, and the arts. The Academy also conducts a varied program […]
The Spring 2013 Ritt Lectures by Prof. Jonathan Pila will take place on April 29th and April 30th. Prof. Pila (University of Oxford) will deliver a two talk series titled: “Functional transcendence and atypical intersections” Abstract: I will explain the Zilber-Pink conjecture on “unlikely intersections.” This is a far-reaching generalisation of the Manin-Mumford, Mordell-Lang, and […]
The spring 2013 iteration of the Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Burt Totaro (UCLA)on Monday, April 15th, 2013.
Congratulations to Wei Zhang for being one of the recipients of the 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship.
Congratulations to Rachel Ollivier for being awarded a prestigious grant under the Provost’s Junior Faculty Diversity Program.