There’s a new book out this week, a biography of Roger Penrose by Patchen Barss, with the title The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius. Penrose is one of the greatest ...

If a post-truth field of science is going to keep going, it needs to convince funders and the public that progress is being made, so there’s a continual need for people uninterested in truth and ...

The square peg problem was posed by Otto Toeplitz in 1911. It asks whether every Jordan curve in the plane contains the vertices of a square, and it is still open to this day. I will survey the ...

November 18th, 2024. University of Michigan. Group, Lie, and Number Theory seminar, 60 minutes : p-adic L-functions for P-ordinary Hida families on unitary groups. November 14th, 2024. University of ...

A provisional schedule with homework assignments is indicated below; it will be updated regularly. You can find a sample syllabus, with reading assignments, at this page. More complete information ...

Schedule: The class meets once weekly. Topics and readings for each session are listed below. This course is being taught by two senior faculty members who are theorists and practitioners in ...

The program may be followed either full-time or part-time. International students on F-1 or J-1 visas must register full-time. Full-time students complete the program in two or three semesters, while ...

Zheheng Xiao ([email protected], office hours 1-3 PM Thursdays, Mathematics 406) Zhaocheng Dong ([email protected], office hours 6-8 PM Wednesdays, Mathematics 405) Mrudul Thatte ...

A provisional schedule with homework assignments is indicated below; it will be updated regularly. You can find a sample syllabus, with reading assignments, at this page. More complete information ...