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Professor Laurent Baratchart to visit this spring
February 6, 2024 – Professor Laurent Baratchart, Research Director at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, is visiting the Department of Mathematics during the Spring semester of 2024. He is hosted by Professors Doug Hardin and Ed Saff. Professor Baratchart’s research areas include the analysis of harmonic fields, approximation, inverse potential problems, and control. He is teaching a graduate course on...
Rubik’s Cube Competition
January 30, 2024 – On Saturday, March 9, there will be a first-of-its-kind event on the Vanderbilt campus: a Rubik’s cube competition. This is the 50th anniversary year for the invention of this beloved puzzle. The competition will be held from 8 – 6 in the SLC ballroom. It will be facilitated by the World Cube Association and CubingUSA. ...
Prof. Ed Saff awarded Honorary Doctorate from National Schevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine
December 30, 2023 – Ed Saff, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, has been granted the title of “Honorary Doctor of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.” There will be an online ceremony on January 2, 2024, to celebrate the occasion, which coincides with Prof. Saff’s 80th birthday. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is the most prestigious university in...
Prof. Speck publishes research breakthrough on the big bang
December 21, 2023 – Prof. Jared Speck, along with Grigorios Fournodavlos (University of Crete) and Igor Rodnianski (Princeton University) recently published a breakthrough paper about the stability of the big bang theory. Their paper answers a 50-year-old conjecture made by physics. It was published in the highly-prestigious Journal of the American Mathematical Society, which is considered as one of...
Prof. Marcelo Disconzi publishes autobiographical children’s book
December 14, 2023 – Prof. Marcelo Disconzi published a children’s book in the “Who, Me?” series. Books in the series are designed to help young readers understand that scientists are regular people like themselves who are excited about learning and discovering new things and who decided to work hard in school in order to create scientific opportunities for themselves....
Prof. Anna Marie Bohmann receives Nordhaus Award
December 7, 2023 – Prof. Anna Marie Bohmann is the recipient of the 2023 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Natural Sciences award. This is a prestigious, college-wide award. Prof. Bohmann is known throughout Vanderbilt as a brilliant lecturer and an energetic advocate for her students. We are lucky to have her in our ranks! The award was presented...
Prof. Jared Speck to deliver AMS Invited Address
November 30, 2023 – Stevenson Chair Jared Speck will give one of three invited lectures at the Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, to be held at Florida State University, March 23-24, 2024. The title of his talk is Singularity Formation for the Equations of Einstein and Euler and the abstract is as follows: In recent...
Prof. Dan Margalit awarded 2024 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
November 28, 2023 – The American Mathematical Society has awarded Benson Farb and Dan Margalit the 2024 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition. The award is in recognition of their book, A Primer on Mapping Class Groups, published by Princeton University Press in 2012. The Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition is given annually for a book or substantial survey or...
Prof. Costas Tsinakis Publishes New Book with Vanderbilt-Affiliated Colleagues
November 11, 2023 – Prof. Costas Tsinakis has published a new book entitled “Residuated Structures in Algebra and Logic” in the AMS book series Mathematical Surveys and Monographs. His two co-authors also have affiliations with Vanderbilt: George Metcalfe is a former Vanderbilt postdoc, while Francesco Paoli has visited Vanderbilt several times. The book is available from the American Mathematical...
Prof. Dietmar Bisch Awarded Funding by SMRI
November 9, 2023 – Prof. Dietmar Bisch was awarded funding by the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute (SMRI) in its recent August 2023 competition for the SMRI International Visitor Program. The funding will support a research visit by Prof. Bisch to Australia. He aims to use it in Spring 2025 to work with colleagues at SMRI, University of Sydney, University...