The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) has awarded a $6000 Tensor-SUMMA Grant to Professor Don King for the summer 2017 Bridge to Calculus program. The MAA award recognizes the valuable contribution of the BtC program in encouraging the pursuit and enjoyment of mathematics by students who are members of groups historically underrepresented in the field […]

The fifth biannual BC-NEU Algebraic Geometry Conference will be held on Saturday March 18, 2017, on the campus of Northeastern in West Village G 104, from 10am-5pm. This jointly organized conference will bring together researchers from the Boston area to hear about recent important developments in the field of Algebraic Geometry. The conference is open […]

Northeastern Professors Ana-Maria Castravet and Alina Marian are co-PI’s on the recently-awarded multi-institutional AGNES program. This program, funded by the National Science Foundation, supports the bi-annual conference series “Algebraic Geometry in the Northeast” which is held on a rotating basis at various institutions. Partner institutions include UMASS Amherst, Boston College, Brown University, Rutgers and Stony […]

The Department of Mathematics invites applications for Zelevinsky Research Instructor positions to start in September of 2018.  This position provides promising mathematicians the opportunity to begin their careers in an active and stimulating research environment, with attractive teaching assignments and with ample opportunity for contact with senior research mathematicians. Appointments are for three years, non-tenured, […]

The Simons Foundation has awarded a five year Collaboration Grant to Professor Maxim Braverman to fund his research on the topic “Index Theory on Non-Compact Manifolds”, starting in September 2016. Professor Braverman will use this funding from the Simons Foundation to support his collaborations with other research groups in the US and around the world.

The fourth biannual BC-NEU Algebraic Geometry Conference will be held on Saturday October 15, 2016, on the campus of Boston College. This jointly organized conference will bring together researchers from the Boston area to hear about recent important developments in the field of Algebraic Geometry. The conference is open to students and faculty, and the registration form and further […]

The Mathematics Department will host a one-day workshop on the topics ”Combinatorics, at the crossroads of Algebra, Geometry, and Topology” on September 23, 2016. The list of speakers includes many internationally known experts in the field, and can be viewed at this link: http://ivanmartino.com/AMS_Bowdoin_2016.php . The workshop will be organized by Professor Alex Suciu and Dr. Ivan Martino, who has […]

The Mathematics Department will host a one-day workshop on the topics ”Combinatorics, at the crossroads of Algebra, Geometry, and Topology” on September 23, 2016. The list of speakers includes many internationally known experts in the field, and can be viewed at this link: http://ivanmartino.com/AMS_Bowdoin_2016.php . The workshop will be organized by Professor Alex Suciu and Dr. Ivan Martino, who has […]

The Mathematics Department is happy to welcome Professor Jonathan Mboyo Esole, who will join us starting in Fall 2016. Professor Esole was most recently a Benjamin Peirce Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University. His area of research lies at the interface of string theory and mathematics, and is supported by a multi-year grant […]

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three year grant to Professor Alina Marian to fund her research as PI on the project “Moduli Theory of Sheaves Over Low-Dimensional Varieties”, starting in September 2016. The award is from the Division of Mathematical Sciences, and is a continuation of previous NSF support for Professor Marian’s research.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three year grant to Professor Christopher Beasley to fund his research as PI on the project “Gauge Fields, Geometry, and Strings”, starting in September 2016. The award is from the Division of Physics (PHY) under the program Elementary Particle Physics – Theory, and it includes RA funding for one graduate student each year.

The College of Science and the Department of Mathematics at Northeastern University are pleased to announce the creation of the Andrei Zelevinsky Research Instructorship.

The Army Research Office has awarded a three year Grant to Professor Gabor Lippner to fund his research as a co-PI on the project “Latent geometry of random simplicial complexes”, starting in July 2016. Professor Lippner’s collaborators on the project are Professor Dima Krioukov (PI, Physics and Network Science) and Research Scientist Maksim Kitsak (co-PI, Physics).

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three year continuing Grant to Professor Adam Ding to fund his research as a co-PI on the project “TWC: Medium: Automating Countermeasures and Security Evaluation Against Software Side-channel Attacks”, starting in June 2016. Professor Ding’s collaborators on the project are Professor Yunsi Fei (PI, ECE) and Professor Thomas Wahl (co-PI, CCIS). The project aims […]