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The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that our Ph.D. program in mathematics has been approved. We will admit our first class of doctoral students in the Fall of 2010. We look forward to implementing a program that allows our students to reach a high level of scholarship as they experience the excitement of carrying out mathematics research, and also to develop excellence in teaching. Details of the program will be announced this fall.
Ebony Harvey, a second-year graduate student, will be presenting a poster on Knot Theory at the Conference for African American Researchers in Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS) this summer. She has received full funding from the conference.
Thomas R. Runyon and Rebecca F. Wentzel have been selected as the 2009 recipients of the Paul J. Sally, Jr. Award and the Albert A. Bennett Award, respectively. In addition, 22 students were inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon, the mathematics honor society. Read more »
Math Department faculty will be traveling the globe this summer, co-organizing and speaking at mathematics conferences. Read more »
Julia Elisenda (Eli) Grigsby, a third-year National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, will join Boston College's mathematics department next fall as an assistant professor. Read more »
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UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS
The department of mathematics at Boston College has 197 undergraduate majors. Meet eight of them.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
The graduate program prepares students for careers in math while fostering close working relationships among students and faculty.
