University of Chicago Department of Mathematics

10/04/2024

It was great to welcome everyone back to campus with the annual Math Department Welcome Picnic! So nice to see everyone and catch up to start off Fall Quarter.

03/29/2024

The department's most recent colloquium was given by Will Sawin (Princeton), titled "The Fundamental Groups of Random 3-Manifolds and Other Random Objects". Check it out if you missed it in person!

Will Sawin gives a talk titled “The Fundamental Group of Random 3-Manifolds and Other Random Objects” as part of the math department’s colloquia series.Abstr...

02/16/2024

We welcomed Lexing Ying (Stanford) last week to give a talk titled "Eigenmatrix for Unstructured Sparse Recovery" as part of our colloquium series. Check it out below if you missed it!

Lexing Ying gives a talk titled "Eigenmatrix for Unstructured Sparse Recovery" as part of the department's colloquium series.Abstract:This talk discusses the...

02/06/2024

Our most recent colloquium was given by guest Alexander Efimov (HSE), titled "Categorical Noncommutative Geometry". Check it out below if you missed it in person!

Alexander Efimove gives a talk titled "Categorical Noncommutative Geometry" as part of the Math Department's colloquium series.Abstract:I will give a brief o...

01/18/2024

Our first colloquium of Winter quarter was given by a UChicago colleague in the Physics Department, Jeff Harvey! His talk was titled "Symmetries, Anomalies and Anomaly Inflow". If you weren't able to catch it in person, check it out below!

Jeff Harvey gives a talk titled "Symmetries, Anomalies and Anomaly Inflow" as part of the math department's colloquium series.Abstract:I will discuss symmetr...

11/21/2023

We're hiring! The UChicago Math Department invites applications for our Assistant Instructional Professor position. You can find details and apply here: apply.interfolio.com/133931

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10/30/2023

Kathryn Mann (Cornell University) visited us last week to give a talk titled "Anosov Fllows on 3-Manifolds" as part of our colloquium series. if you weren't able to catch it in person you can check it out below!

Kathryn Mann (Cornell University) gives a talk titled "Anosov Fllows on 3-Manifolds" as part of the math department's colloquium series.Abstract:Anosov flows...

10/06/2023

Welcome back everyone! The department heldo its first colloquium of the quarter on Wednesday with a talk given by Duncan Dauvergne (University of Toronto) titled "Random Planar Geometry and the Directed Landscape."

If you weren't able to tune in for the talk you can check it out below!

Duncan Dauvergne (University of Toronto) gives a talk titled "Random Planar Geometry and the Directed Landscape" as part of the math department's colloquium ...

04/20/2023

Our most recent colloquium was given by Toby Gee from Imperial College London. If you weren't able to make it in person you can check out the video below!

The University of Chicago Department of Mathematics presents a talk by Toby Gee titled "The Ramanujan Conjecture".Abstract:I will explain the statement of th...

04/07/2023

Help us find all our eggs!

03/27/2023

There's always time for popcorn! Stop by the Math Department main office in Eckhart to get some before it's all gone!

03/15/2023

Our very own Professor Amie Wilkinson celebrated Pi Day by eating some pizza and celebrating Math Circles of Chicago this morning on Chicago Today! Check it out below, and happy belated Pi day!

Have you ever wondered why we celebrate Pi Day? We invited the professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago Amie Wilkinson joins us to explain the mathematical aspect of Pi Day.