Mathematics | Michigan State University

Seminars

Monday, August 20
Analysis and PDE
Title: Analyticity in Operator Algebras
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Place: C517 Wells Hall
Speaker: Soumyashant Nayak, University of Pennsylvania

Friday, August 24
Applied Mathematics
Title: Bregman-divergence for Legendre exponential families and data analysis
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall
Speaker: Hyenkyun Woo, Korea University of Technology & Education

Friday, August 31
Applied Mathematics
Title: Discrete Aleksandrov solutions of the Monge-Ampere equation
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: 1502 Engineering Building
Speaker: Gerard Awanou, University of Illinois, Chicago

Thursday, September 6
Geometry and Topology
Title: TBA
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall
Speaker: Alex Waldron, MSU

Thursday, September 13
Geometry and Topology
Title: TBA
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Place: C304 Wells Hall
Speaker: Rita Gitik, Michigan

For a full schedule of seminars, click here.

Contact

Department of Mathematics
Michigan State University
619 Red Cedar Road
C212 Wells Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: (517) 353-0844
Fax: (517) 432-1562

College of Natural Science

Events

Great Lakes Mathematical Physics Meeting

The third Great Lakes Mathematical Physics Meeting, will be held in 111 Berkey Hall June 22-24, 2018. Each day there will be a session of twenty minute short talks by young researchers. The meeting will be of broad interest to researchers working in mathematical physics. There will also be lectures from invited speakers Yulia Karpeshina, Antti Knowles, Milivoje Lukic, Aseel Farhat, Anna Vershynina, and Tanya Christiansen.

Fall Teaching Orientation

Fall Teaching Orientation starts on August 22. Please check the full schedule at the following links for details: Teaching Orientation Events, Instructors Course Meetings.

Recalculating Gateway Mathematics

See how new approaches and course offerings from the Department of Mathematics helps contribute to student success in "Recalculating Gateway Mathematics at MSU"

NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Eliot Bongiovanni has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. These highly competitive awards provide three years of full support to pursue Ph.D. studies in a STEM field, which Eliot will do in mathematics at Rice University. NSFGRFP Recipient Announcement Article.

Spotlight

Thomas Walpuski named 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics

Thomas Walpuski has been selected as a 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics for his work on gauge theory of G2 manifolds and the analysis of generalized Seiberg-Witten equations. Typically only 20 Sloan Fellows are awarded annually in all areas of mathematics.

Kristen Hendricks receives NSF CAREER Award

Kristen Hendricks received an NSF CAREER award supporting her outstanding research in Heegaard Floer homology, stellar undergraduate and graduate mentoring, and outreach efforts. Typically fewer than 35 CAREER awards are made each year over the whole of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the NSF. Click here to learn more about this year's NSF CAREER Award recipients.

Yingda Cheng named 2018 Simons Fellow in Mathematics

Yingda Cheng received a 2018 Simon Foundation Fellowship supporting her cutting edge research on discontinuous Galerkin methods with applications to semiconductor device simulations, plasma physics, and nonlinear optics. Only 40 Simons Fellowships are awarded over all of mathematics each year.

Beth Koivisto receives the 2018 Jack Breslin Distinguished Staff Award

Beth Koivisto has been awarded the 2018 Jack Breslin University Distinguished Staff Award. Koivisto and other honorees will receive their awards at a reception scheduled for May 21st at 12:30 p.m. in the Kellogg Center. Click here to read more about the MSU Jack Breslin Distinguished Staff Award.

Katrina Gensterblum Named Dean's Research Scholar

Undergraduate student Katrina Gensterblum has been named a Dean's Research Scholar by the College of Natural Science for the 2018-2019 academic year. As a member of the group, Katrina will represent the College of Natural Science at speaking engagements around the country. Click here for more information about Dean's Research Scholars.

Taylor Joseph and Jenna Jerwers Receive Outstanding Senior Awards

Jenna Jerwers and Taylor Joseph were recently awarded the Outstanding Senior awards, which are presented to graduating seniors who have demonstrated exemplary academic and extracurricular successes, and a strong sense of leadership, commitment and dedication to MSU. These prizes are awarded annually by the Michigan State University's Senior Class Council. Taylor Joseph, a mathematics major, has also been awarded the Leroy Augenstein Memorial Scholarship from the College of Natural Science.

Thomas Grubb Awarded Goldwater Scholarship

Thomas Grubb has won a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for his work with Prof. Bruce Sagan on combinatorial pattern avoidance in set partitions and restricted growth functions. There are 250 Goldwater Scholarships awarded annually to sophomores and juniors across mathematics and science in the US. In addition, Thomas Grubb was also named one of the CNS Dean's research Scholars.

For more information about the Goldwater Scholarship, click here.
For more information about the Deans Research Scholar, click here

Sarah Klanderman Awarded a University-Wide Excellence-in-Teaching Citation

Graduate Student Sarah Klanderman was recently awarded a university-wide Excellence-in-Teaching Citation. This award follows the Nat-Sci Excellence-in-Teaching Citation she received from the College of Natural Sciences last fall. Excellence-in-Teaching Citations are awarded to graduate TAs who have fulfilled their classroom responsibilities with a distinguished level of care and skill. Congratulations to Sarah! Click here for more information about the 2018 Excellence-in-Teaching Citations.