Seminars and Colloquium

The faculty of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, in conjunction with the faculty at the other Five Colleges, support many seminars. These include both traditional seminars featuring outside speakers and seminars organized on topics of current interest to the faculty and graduate students.

Seminars

Applied Mathematics and Computation Seminar
Analysis Seminar
Joint Math/Physics Seminar
Discrete Math Seminar
Five College Number Theory Seminar
Mathematics of Machine Learning Seminar
Representation Theory Seminar
Statistics and Data Science Seminar Series
Valley Geometry Seminar
Mathematical and Computational Biology Seminar
Geometry and Topology Seminar

In addition, the department holds a Colloquium/Distinguished Lecture Series on topics of general interest to the department. All faculty and graduate students are encouraged to attend.

Graduate and Learning Seminars

Reading Seminar in Geometry and Topology
Reading Seminar in Algebraic Geometry
Learning Learning Seminar
The What Is ... Graduate Seminar (TWIGS)
GRAduate Student Seminar (GRASS)

Connecticut Valley Colloquium

Year Speaker
2017-18 Anna Gilbert, University of Michigan
2016-17 Mark J. Ablowitz, University of Colorado
2015-16 Assaf Naor, Princeton University
2014-15 Felix Otto, Max Plank Institute
2013-14 Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA
2012-13 Clifford H. Taubes, William Petschek Professor of Mathematics - Harvard University
2011-12 Luis A. Caffarelli, Sid Richardson Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
2010-11 Professor Helmut Hofer, IAS Princeton
2009-10 Michael Hopkins, Harvard University
2008-09 Paul Marriott, University of Waterloo
2007-08 Barry Mazur, Harvard University
2006-07 John Morgan, Columbia University
2005-06 Dinakar Ramakrishnan, California Institute of Technology
2004-05 Andrew Majda, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
2002-03 Ronald Coifman, Yale University
2001-02 Robert MacPherson, Institute for Advanced Study

Undergraduate Connecticut Valley Colloquium

Year Speaker
2007-08 Keith Conrad, University of Connecticut
2004-05 David Rohrlich, Boston University
2003-04 Glenn Stevens, Boston University
2001-02 Alf van der Poorten, Macquarie University
2000-01 Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
1999-2000 Michael Rosen, Brown University
1997-98 Carl Pomerance, University of Georgia
1996-97 Kristin Lauter, University of Michigan and Max Plank Institute