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Professor Benson Farb of the University of Chicago gave three interesting and well-attended talks as the 2009-2010 Boston College Distinguished Lecturer in Mathematics. Prof. Farb is an internationally renowned mathematician who speicalizes in the interaction between geometry, topology and group theory. More...
The Math Department and the BC Math Society will once again co-sponsor a Block Party before registration. Watch this space for details.
Deadlines are approaching for summer REUs and scholarships for next year. We have information in our Student Opportunities section. You can also visit http://www.ams.org/employment/reu.html.
Congratulations to Martin Bridgeman, who has been promoted to Full Professor!
April is Mathematics Awareness Month: This year's theme is Mathematics and Sports. Check out the website here.
Book Acceptance: Professor and Chair Solomon Friedberg has had his book Weyl Group Multiple Dirichlet Series: Type A Combinatorial Theory (authored jointly with Profs. Daniel Bump of Stanford and Benjamin Brubaker of MIT) accepted by the prestigious book series Annals of Mathematics Studies, published by Princeton University Press.
Jay Pottharst awarded NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Visiting Assistant professor Jonathan (Jay) Pottharst, a number theorist who has been a faculty member here at BC since he received his PhD in 2008, has been awarded a prestigious NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. This award provides funding to carry out research full-time for two years over a three-year period.
New articles by BC faculty in elite math journals: Prof. Sol Friedberg has had an article accepted by, and Prof. Rob Meyerhoff an article appear in, an elite mathematics journal. More...
The Departments of Mathematics and Teacher Education is sponsoring a monthly seminar series in Mathematics Education. The series is supported by TNE and organized by Professors Solomon Friedberg (Mathematics) and Lillie Albert (Teacher Education). For a list of speakers, click here.
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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.
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." 
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."