Mathematics Department
News
Special Lecture for Undergraduates
Puneet Batra will speak on "The Science behind Big Data" on February 16 at 4:30 p.m. in Devlin 227. This lecture is co-sponsored by the BC Math Society. More ยป
Math Department Launches Alumni Network
The Mathematics Department has launched the Boston College Math Alumni Network, a database of BC math alumni who are willing to serve as Alumni Mentors for BC mathematics students. The Math Department will maintain the database of mentors, which will be available to BC math students and math alumni. More information.
2012 BC Distinguished Lecturer in Mathematics
Robert Ghrist, Andrea Mitchell University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will be the 2012 BC Distinguished Lecturer in Mathematics. Prof. Ghrist will give 3 lectures April 18, 19, and 20, the first intended for a general university audience. Prof. Ghrist works in Applied Topology, and holds appointments at Penn in both the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Electrical/Systems Engineering.
Conference on recent work of Professor Tao Li
The Redbud Topology Conference is focussed around Professor Tao Li's recent examples of hyperbolic 3-manifolds whose Heegaard genera are strictly greater than the rank of their fundamental groups. See website.
Professor Meyerhoff awarded Simons Fellowship
Congratulations to Professor Meyerhoff who has been awarded a prestigious Simons Fellowship. The fellowship will provide funding for a semester research leave allowing Professor Meyerhoff to take a full year sabbatical in academic year 2012-2013.
Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunities
The NSF has announced summer sites for their Research Experience for Undergraduates program. More information. Opportunities are also available on campus.
Slideshows
Undergraduate Majors
The department of mathematics at Boston College has 253 undergraduate majors. Meet seven of them.
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Graduate Students
Meet five members of the department's inaugural class of Ph.D. candidates.
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If you want to be a math major, please email the Assistant Chair for Undergraduates, Professor Bill Keane, for an initial advising appointment.
Featured Events
Number Theory & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
February 16, 3:00 p.m.
Carney 309
Professor Lior Rosenzweig
(Hebrew University), TBA
Geometry-Topology Seminar
February 23, 4:00 p.m.
Carney 309
Professor Ben Webster (Northeastern University), TBA
Announcements
The Mathematics department is pleased to announce that our proposal to offer a B.S. in Mathematics has been approved. More
Alumni Profiles
Dan Wolf '82 believes the mathematics department at Boston College instilled in him a love of learning. "The professors at Boston College shared their deep passion for math and how it could be used to solve problems." Read more
Karen Golden Russell '91 uses the rigorous and quantitative thought processes she learned as a math major "on a daily basis to bring order to the business world." Read more