Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Binghamton University news:2015

The 2015 Peter Hilton Memorial Lecture

2015-02-23T15:52:50-04:00

The 2015 Peter Hilton Memorial Lecture

Prof. Ralf Spatzier from University of Michigan will give the annual Peter Hilton Memorial Lecture on Thursday, April 23, 2015. The lecture will be given in Science 2, Room 140 at 3:00 pm. It will be followed by a reception at 4:30 pm, in The President's Reception Room, Anderson Performing Center, Binghamton University. This reception is for the whole Binghamton Mathematics Community as well as for our visitors. A flyer of the event can be downloaded. The abstract of the lecture talk can be found at this webpage.

Peter Hilton Memorial Lecture is an annual event in memory of Peter Hilton, 1923-2010, a member of the Binghamton Mathematics Department from 1982 until his death in November 2010. He was an internationally famous member of the mathematical community. His contributions included a major role in the code-breaking operation at Bletchley Park during World War II, where he worked with Alan Turing, and important research contributions to topology, homological algebra, elementary number theory, combinatorics, and polyhedral geometry, as well as mathematics education at all levels. A collection of memoirs by people who knew Peter has been published in the December 2011 issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

The Eighth BUGCAT will be held November 14-15, 2015

2015-09-25T09:52:47-04:00

The Eighth BUGCAT will be held November 14-15, 2015

The 8th Annual Binghamton University Graduate Conference in Algebra and Topology (BUGCAT) is to be held at Binghamton University, November 14-15, 2015. There will be talks throughout the day Saturday and also Sunday morning. Lunch will be provided on Saturday and there will be a banquet, at a cost of $15, Saturday evening.

This year's featured keynotes are Mark Feighn from Rutgers University and Bob Morse from the University of Evansville.

Deadline for registration is Friday, November 6, 2015 and abstracts for talks should be also submitted by this day. Registration can be done through the conference website.

Visit the conference website and the conference Facebook Page, or e-mail gradconf@math.binghamton.edu for more information.

Ross Geoghegan is elected a Foreign Member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences

2015-10-22T11:28:37-04:00

Ross Geoghegan is elected a Foreign Member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences

Ross Geoghegan, Research Professor of Mathematics and Department Chair-Designate, has been elected a Foreign Member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences. He will give his inaugural lecture in Skopje some time in the Spring 2016 semester. This recognizes a long association between the Binghamton Department of Mathematical Sciences and Macedonia initiated by Professor Geoghegan. Seven of Binghamton's PhDs in mathematics have come from Macedonia.

Adrian Vasiu received Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities

2015-11-25T11:29:49-04:00

Adrian Vasiu received Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities

Adrian Vasiu, Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, has received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. He was honored at the Excellence Awards Dinner on October 22, 2015 with a medal, a plaque and a check. Vice President for Research Bahgat Sammakia introduced Adrian at this event with the following words.

Known for bringing the highest level of scholarship and innovation to his profession, Adrian Vasiu is an international leader in arithmetic algebraic geometry, also called number theory, whose breakthroughs have helped define the discipline. Continuing high-level research with a focus on a long-standing conjecture of the Italian geometer C. Traverso, and with international collaborators, he proved that Traverso’s estimate is not correct in general and then proved the correct substitute, with their results published in the prestigious Annals of Mathematics.

The methods he developed to solve this conjecture are far reaching. It is an honor to award Adrian Vasiu the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.