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Upcoming Events

Function Theory Study Seminar

THURSDAY Feb. 02, 3:30 PM CW 143

Title: Rigidity Theorems in Geometric Function Theory.
Hrant Hakobyan Kansas State University

M-Seminar

TUESDAY Feb. 07, 3:30 PM CW 120

Title: TBA
Sheel Ganatra, University of California, Berkeley

Analysis Seminar

WEDNESDAY Feb. 08, 4:30 PM CW 122

Title: Spectral measure for a self-adjoint operator via the heat semigroup
Frederic Bernicot, Laboratoire de Mathematiques Jean Leray, Nantes, France

Complete event listings are available from our Events Section

Recent News

Andy Bennett receives the 2012 KSMAA teaching award

January 2012

Professor Andy Bennett receives the 2012 MAA Kansas Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.

Nathan Albin receives KSU and Air Force awards

January 2012

Assistant Professor Nathan Albin receives a KSU Faculty Development Award; an award from the KSU Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Faculty Enhancement Program; and an Air Force STTR subaward.

Virginia Naibo featured in the educational project Science in Kansas—150 years and counting

December 2011

Associate Professor and I-Center Director Virginia Naibo has been featured in the sesquicentennial educational project Science in Kansas—150 years and counting sponsored by the Ad Astra Kansas Initiative.

The M-Center co-organizes a research program at the Erwin Schroedinger Institute

October 2011

The program "The Geometry of Topological D-Branes, Categories and Applications" will take place in Vienna.

Garrett Alston receives two National Science Foundation awards

October 2011

The first one to support his research; the second one to organize a conference in campus this Fall.

I-Center Scholars

September 2011

Dakota Bixler, Joshua Ericson, Na Long, Brian Moore, Vincent Pigno, Shane Scott, Stephanie Stoway, and Hainan Zhang are I-Center Scholars for Fall 2011.

Two postdocs join the Department

September 2011

Derrick Hart and Zheng Hua join the Department as I-Center and M-Center Postdocs.

New faculty members

September 2011

Nathan Albin and Roman Fedorov join the Department as tenure-track faculty

Conference: Mirror Symmetry in the Midwest

September 2011

A conference devoted to geometric and algebraic aspects of mirror symmetry will be held at Kansas State University, November 3-6, 2011.

Hrant Hakobyan receives a Kansas NSF Epscor First Award

June 2011

Assistant Professor Hrant Hakobyan receives an NSF Epscor First Award to support his research program on Quasiconformal Geometry of Fractal Spaces.

Yan Soibelman receives NSF-DMS award

June 2011

Professor and M-Center Director Yan Soibelman receives an NSF-DMS award to support his research program on Cohomological Hall algebra and motivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants.

Virginia Naibo receives NSF-DMS award

June 2011

Associate Professor and I-Center Director Virginia Naibo receives an NSF-DMS award to support her research program on Bilinear techniques in time-frequency and real analysis.

Nine math alumni give lectures at K-State

June 2011

Lectures by nine mathematics alumni, three visiting professors, and two of our faculty and staff were the highlights of the 2010 Undergraduate Lecture Series in Mathematics at Kansas State University.

The M-Center organizes two Mirror Symmetry conferences in Europe this summer

May 2011

The first conference to be held in Italy, July 2-8; the second one in Croatia, July 11-15.

Jeffrey Hicks receives a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

April 2011

Kansas State University mathematics graduate Jeffrey Hicks is among 2,000 students nationally to receive a 2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Undergraduates work on mathematical model to track spread of rural epidemics

April 2011

I-Center scholars Joshua Ericson and Hainan Zhang and Professor Pietro Poggi-Corradini examine how epidemics are spread in rural communities and how they can be effectively controlled.

Math Modeling Teams Successfully Participate in the 2011 MCM

April 2011

Two teams of Kansas State University students successfully participated in the 2011 Mathematical Contest in Modeling, among 2,775 teams representing institutions from sixteen countries.

Pietro Poggi-Corradini will give a short course on Random Walks and Electrical Networks

April 2011

Pietro Poggi-Corradini will give three lectures on Random Walks and Electrical Networks hosted by the Center for Complex Network Approach to Epidemic Modeling and Simulation (EpiCenter).

I-Center postdoc and M-center member receives recognition

April 2011

Garrett Alston is invited speaker at two prestigious international research conferences this Summer

I-Center Scholars

March 2011

James Bailey, Brian Bishof, Eric Bunch, Joshua Ericson, Ya Gao, and Yuan Yan are I-Center Scholars for Spring 2011.

Three Mathematics faculty members earn tenure

March 2011

Professors Ricardo Castano-Bernard, Gerald Hoehn and Virginia Naibo have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations!

Mathematics Students Earn Multiple Successes at Collegiate Competition

March 2011

Kansas State University mathematics students came up with multiple victories at the recent 2011 Kansas Collegiate Mathematics Competition.

M-Center opens

January 2011

The Center for Mirror Symmetry & Tropical Geometry (M-Center) opens

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