Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton University and University of Cambridge) will give Fall 2018 Kempf Lectures.

The Department of Mathematics congratulates Caucher Birkar of the University of Cambridge, a former PhD advisee of JHU math professor Vyacheslav Shokurov, on being awarded one of the 2018 Fields Medals for his work in algebraic geometry. Click the news title to see more detail.

Congratulations to all the winners of the math awards for 2018. See the flier for more information.

The Baltimore-Washington Metro Area Differential Geometry Seminar  is a joint seminar between the math departments of University of Maryland – College Park , Howard University and of Johns Hopkins University. The next meeting will be held at UMD on May 4, 2018.

An interesting article about JJ Sylvester in MAA by Dr. Sid Kolpas.

Yannick Sire and Chris Sogge have been awarded prestigious fellowships from the Simons Foundation. See new article from HUB.

The Spring 2018 Algebra and Number Theory Day will be held on Sunday, April 15, 2018 at Johns Hopkins University. The speakers will be Eyal Goren (McGill), Christopher Hacon (Utah), Gonçalo Tabuada (MIT), and Yunqing Tang (Princeton).

Emily Riehl was profiled along with 27 other leading women mathematicians in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

The JAMI 2018 program consists of two workshops and two lecture series in March and April.

Michael Rapoport (University of Bonn/University of Maryland) will give a special series of three lectures on “Reductions of Shimura varieties” at 2 p.m. in Krieger 413.