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The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) features a symposium organized by Professor Silas Alben and Professor Laura Miller (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Combining experiments with modeling and computational methods to study animal locomotion." The goal of the symposium and associated workshop at the 2012 Meeting of the SICB is to encourage investigators in organismal bio   more...

Professor Michael Loss was recently elected as a Foreign Corresponding Member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences. Information about the entire event (en español) is at the link. Among other things, the citation says that Michael

"... combines, with elegance and style, physical intuition and mathematical rigor, obtaining profound and highly interesting results in physics as well as in mathematics."

Monday, January 30 at 4 p.m. in the Student Center Theater

President Bud Peterson and Provost Rafael Bras will jointly address the academic faculty during a series of one-hour conversations that will include brief presentations followed by an open question and answer session with the audience.

Interested staff are also welcome to attend.

Students interested in graduate studies in the School of Mathematics are invited to attend Prospective Student Day on Friday February 3, 2012.    more...

28th Southeastern Analysis Meeting

SEAM 28 will be hosted by the University of Alabama on March 9-10, 2012. The meeting has a rich history and its main purpose is to bring together experienced researchers, junior faculty, and graduate students to discuss recent work and advances in Operator Theory, Classical Complex Analysis, Harmonic Analysis, Function Theoretic Operator Theory, and related areas. The conference will begin the morning of March 9 and go into the afternoon of March 10.

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The Georgia Tech School of Mathematics will host the 6th Annual Graduate Student Probability Conference (GSPC) from April 27 - 29, 2012. The conference is open to all graduate students and post-doctoral fellows interested in probability. The two keynote speakers are:

• Professor Jean Bertoin, Universität Zürich
• Professor Craig Tracy, University of California

Conference objectives are:    more...

The Topology Students Workshop will feature research talks by leading mathematicians in geometry and topology, and will have hands-on training and panel discussions on professional development topics such as:    more...

During June 18-July 6, 2012, the School of Mathematics will host the 2012 IMA Participating Institutions Summer Program for Graduate Students in Algebraic Geometry for Applications. The program will be structured around a course in computational algebraic geometry, treating foundational material as well as current applications. The foundations will include introductions to Gröbner bases, numerical algebraic geometry, semidefinite programming and real algebraic geometry, and tropical geometry.   more...