Math during the Pandemic

Here is a resource for folks missing seminar life: Catalog of Virtual Seminars The pandemic has produced an environment where  you can see seminar talks essentially anywhere in the world! You can search by topic, speaker name, place, etc. But never forget the wise words of a productive mathematician: Don’t let the talks interfere with a good…

Midwest Algebraic Geometry Graduate Student Conference

The annual Midwest Algebraic Geometry Conference organized by and for graduate students has gone remote! There will be a zoom conference on May 2. See the letter from Izzet Coskun below for more details. Dear Friends, I hope you and your loved ones are all doing well and staying healthy. The graduate students Greg Taylor,…

Conference in Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics

Saturday, March 7 (the last weekend of Spring Break), UIUC will host the 19th ALGECOM. This is a one day conference in Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics. Speakers this year are Steven Karp (University of Quebec at Montreal) Martha Yip (University of Kentucky) Jake Levinson (University of Washington) Claudiu Raicu (Notre Dame) Jake is a recent…

Conference in Commutative Algebra

Morgantown Algebra Days 2020 There will be a two-day commutative algebra conference  at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV during April 25-26, 2020 (Saturday-Sunday).  The conference will have 8 research talks and a poster session for graduate students.  The poster session will allow numerous young researchers to present their work to the  commutative algebra community.  Register…

Interested in becoming a better non-technical mathematical expositor?

The 2019 Michigan ConSciCom is an effective program for teaching young mathematicians and scientists to better communicate their work. First begun at Harvard in 2013, this 2 day workshop promises to be fun and helpful for all math PhD students, whether they just want to become better speakers and writers for the purpose of improving…