Terry Tao has recently made substantial progress on the 3x+1 conjecture. Our own Professor Lagarias is the international go-to expert on this conjecture. Check out this Quanta magazine piece about this progress, which includes Jeff’s comments, here. On the subject of Tao, another Quanta article beautifully conveys the excitement of mathematical discoverywhile telling the story…
Month: December 2019
Macaulay Workshop in May
You are invited to apply to a Macaulay2 workshop at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, OH from Monday, May 11, 2020 through Friday, May 15, 2020 (with Sunday, May 10 and Saturday, May 16 serving as travel dates). Macaulay2 is the main computer algebra package used by researchers in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. Using…
Invitations to Industry continues Friday in Junior Colloquium
Felipe Perez (UM Math PhD 2015) will tell us about his exciting work as a machine learning research scientist at Layer 6 AI in Toronto. It is not too late to RSVP here. Title: Research, contests, and production: the faces of ML in industry Friday, December 06, 2019 1068 East Hall 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, with…
Our Dean requests your input on the Chair Search
In case you missed today’s meeting with the Dean about the future leadership of the department, I have copied her Nov 22 email to mathgrads (and other department list-serves) below. She is interested in hearing not only from faculty, but also from post-docs and graduate students as well. You are still welcome to send her…