The Spring 2022 Algebra and Number Theory Day will be held on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at the University of Maryland, College Park. The speakers will be Vesselin Dimitrov (Toronto), Dennis Gaitsgory (Harvard), and Giulia Saccà (Columbia).
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Summer 2022 Courses are Now Open for Enrollment for JHU and Visiting Students
The Math Department will offer a variety of courses in Summer 2022, both online and in person, ranging from College Algebra and Precalculus to Real Analysis and Abstract Algebra.
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March 1, 2022: talk by Dimitri Kanevsky (Google) on “A Non-Associative Moufang Loop of Point Classes on a Cubic Surface”
Dimitri Kanevsky came up with the first example of a non-associative Moufang loop of classes of points on cubic hypersurfaces. This answers a 50-year-old question by Yuri Manin. This talk was the first talk in mathematics which used a speech recognition technology. The program for speech recognition was co-invented also by Dimitri Kanevsky.
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The Mathematic Mind of Emily Riehl
Associate Professor Emily Riehl was profiled in the winter edition of Johns Hopkins Magazine for her work "probing esoteric forms of mathematics that rethink the most basic of terms, like 'equals' and 'same.' As a result of work by her and others, 'the same' will never be the same again." Read the full article to learn more about her work, process, and accomplishments.
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December 4–5: Johns Hopkins Junior Number Theory Days 2021
The Johns Hopkins Junior Number Theory Days are a two-day workshop in Number Theory, where the speakers are either PhD students who are graduating, or post-docs who recently graduated. It aims to bring together strong, promising young researchers in Number Theory and neighboring fields, and to give them an opportunity to showcase their work.
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Emily Riehl selected as Fellow of the AMS
Congratulations to Professor Emily Riehl on her selection as a member of the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. She was selected for her contributions to research, exposition, and communication in higher category theory.
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New Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics
Associate Professor Emily Riehl writes in Scientific American about how mathematicians have expanded category theory, which shows new connections among mathematical concepts.
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Yiannis Sakellaridis to speak at International Congress of Mathematicians
Congratulations to Professor Yiannis Sakellaridis, who has been asked to give an invited talk at next summer's International Congress of Mathematicians in St. Petersburg, Russia. He will speak in the Lie Theory and Generalizations section.
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September 11: Fall 2021 Algebra & Number Theory Day
The Fall 2021 Algebra and Number Theory Day, organized jointly by the University of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins University, will be held on Saturday, September 11, 2021 at Johns Hopkins University. The speakers will be David Ben-Zvi (University of Texas at Austin), Jayce Getz (Duke University), Ivan Loseu (Yale University), Mona Merling (University of Pennsylvania), and Carl Wang-Erickson (University of Pittsburgh).
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Remembering Steve Zucker
A memorial tribute to our late colleague Steve Zucker, who passed away two years ago, has appeared in the August 2021 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.