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Friedberg Reappointed as Editor
Chair and Professor Sol Friedberg has been appointed to a second two-year term as editor of the book series Issues in Mathematical Education; he will now serve as editor through 2010. This series, published by the American Mathematical society and the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, is devoted to upgrading the base of scholarly knowledge concerning learning, teaching, and curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the mathematical sciences, the education of pre-service teachers for the mathematical sciences, and graduate programs in education in the mathematical sciences.
New Joint BC-MIT Seminar Series
Boston College and MIT will join forces this coming year to create a Number Theory Seminar series, with the goal of attracting number theorists from the greater Boston area and featuring important advances in modern number theory. More...
The Ideal Mathematics Teacher
Chair and Professor Sol Friedberg was recently featured in the online publication of the Centro de Modelamiento Matemรกtico at the University of Chile, when he was invited to visit that nation to advise them on several projects related to the mathematical preparation of future teachers.
A Passion for Mathematics
BC Math Department alumnus Dr. Paul J. Sally, Jr. (BA '54, MA '56), a mathematician who is world-renowned for both his research and his contributions to mathematics education, was recently profiled in the University of Chicago Magazine. More...
What's New in Mathematics?
Keep up to date with developments in the mathematics profession. More...
Friedberg to Speak in Edinburgh
Professor Sol Friedberg has been invited to speak this summer at the Conference on Multiple Dirichlet Series and Applications to Automorphic Forms, sponsored by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences. More...
Mirollo attends IMA course in Mathematical Neuroscience
Professor Rennie Mirollo participated in this intensive course at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. This exciting field of research involves mathematical theory as relevant to studies of the brain and neural networks. More...
Congratulations to Our Undergraduate Award Winners!
The Albert A. Bennett Award was given to Colleen A. Sampson, and the Paul J. Sally Jr. Award was presented to Brendan Keenan. More...
Congratulations on Book Publication
Congratulations are due to Paul R. Thie and Jerry Keough on the publication of the third edition of Introduction to Linear Programming and Game Theory.
NSF Grant Awarded
Professor Mark Reeder has been awarded a new 3-year, $135,326, National Science Foundation grant for his research on explicit Langlands correspondences. This belongs to the interface between the fields of Representation Theory (the study of the manifestation of symmetry) and Number Theory. The Langlands correspondence is a series of conjectures which predict strong interactions between three very different kinds of symmetries: i) symmetries of the roots of polynomials; ii) symmetries in finite dimensional spaces, such as one sees in the Platonic solids; and iii) symmetries in infinite dimensional spaces. It is expected that verification of the Langlands correspondence will lead to deep new results in Number Theory.
Awarded Tenure
Assistant Professors Benjamin Howard and Tao Li have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Their promotions are effective for the coming academic year. We congratulate these two outstanding scholars and teachers on their accomplishments.
BC Math Society
A group of active undergraduates is helping to revive the Mathematics Society. They're looking for a few good members. Learn more at Student Activities Day on Sept. 12, or e-mail the Math Department.
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Department of Mathematics
301 Carney Hall
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3806
Telephone: (617) 552-3750
FAX: (617) 552-3789
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Who We Are
Our faculty is a diverse group of mathematicians who pursue research and publication activities. Aided by several TFs, TAs, and staff, we strive for excellence in the classroom in all of the courses we offer for our students.
Graduate Programs
Our graduate program leads primarily to an M.A.. We also participate with other Schools and Programs in joint master's degree programs. Teaching fellowships are available for most students.
Undergraduate Programs
Our undergraduate programs afford students an intimate experience and provide a solid background in mathematics at one of the country's premier Liberal Arts institutions.
Undergraduate Services
As a supplement to tutoring services offered by the The Connors Family Learning Center, we provide our own tutoring service, free of charge, to undergraduate students in core-level and calculus courses.
We maintain a separate website for course advisement for non-majors, and offer procedural guidelines and information for registration overrides and course approvals.
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