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Questions about Math Courses?
We sponsor a separate website full of information to help you choose the mathematics course for the Fall semester that best matches the requirements of your School or major. Selecting the right Calculus course is especially critical. Please be sure to visit...
Thinking about taking a math course this summer?
If you need approval to take a Math course at BC, you can see Michelle Matel in Carney 318 or Marilyn Adams in Carney 301. If you need approval for a Math course from another college or university, speak to Professor Chambers in Carney 365.
Earthquakes and Mathematics
Professor Dan Chambers will be presenting a lecture entitled "Forecasting Earthquakes: A Statistical Approach" at the Weston Observatory (381 Concord Road, Weston, MA) from 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday, May 14th, and again on May 21st. Reservations are required, due to limited seating. For more information, call 617-552-8300.
Congratulations to our award winners!
This year's Pi Mu Epsilon Initiation and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony took place on Thursday, May 1. We inducted 12 new members into Pi Mu Epsilon, and presented two department awards. The Albert A. Bennett Award was given to Colleen A. Sampson, who recently completed her Extended Practicum at the Pierce School in Brookline, and her third Boston Marathon. She will be pursuing her Master's Degree in Moderate Special Needs Education through the Lynch School's 5th Year Program. Her long term goal is to work with middle school students. The Paul J. Sally Jr. Award was presented to Brendan Keenan, who will be attending Harvard University in the fall in pursuit of a Master of Science degree in Biostatistics, with an eye toward an eventual Ph.D. in the program. His preparation includes participation last summer in the Summer Institute in Biostatistics at Boston University, a six-week training program in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Clinical Trials, Statistical Genetics, and SAS.
Summer Activities
Summer is a busy time for the Math faculty. In addition to ongoing research and preparation for next fall's classes. several of our faculty members will be traveling to conferences and making presentations. Professor Solomon Friedberg is scheduled to speak in workshops on teacher development programs and case studies usage in Chile in the early summer, and will be speaking at the Conference on Multiple Dirichlet Series and Applications to Automorphic Forms at the International Centre for Mathematics Sciences in Edinburgh. Professor Benjamin Howard will be spending a month as a visitor at the University of Bonn.
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.
Donald J. White Teaching Award winners
The Math Department was fortunate to have an outstanding group of teaching fellows for the 2007-2008 academic year. We are pleased to announce that each of them has received the Donald J. White Teaching Award, which recognizes teaching excellence by graduate students. Congratulations to Tara Barnum, Michelle Clement, Elizabeth Dobrowolski, Rose Morgan, George Potter, and Bronwen Price.
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.
Dr. John Horton Conway lectures
Our new Boston College Distinguished Lecturer in Mathematics series was successfully launched with lectures by Professor John Horton Conway, holder of the John von Neumann Chair of Mathematics at Princeton University. Dr. Conway has made significant contributions in a number of mathematical fields: the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, game theory, coding theory, tiling, and the creation of new number systems. He also is noted for his interest in mathematical games, and is the inventor of the "Game of Life", a computer simulation of simple cellular "life" in which simple rules give rise to amazingly complex behavior. His first lecture, "The Surreal Numbers," drew a standing-room only crowd, and will soon be available on Front Row.
Recent and Upcoming Invited Talks
Professor Avner Ash has spoken on "Stable Group Homology and Hecke Operators" at Brandeis University's Everytopic Seminar and at Boston University's Algebra Seminar, and will give a talk at New College, Florida later this month. He will also speak in May at the Wesleyan University Algebra Seminar. Professor Solomon Friedberg presented a talk entitled "Twisted Euler Products and Gelfand-Tsetlin Patterns" at the American Mathematical Society meetings in New York City this past March, and at the Stanford/AIM Number Theory Seminar. Professor Benjamin Howard has made presentations at the University of Toronto Number Theory Seminar, and at the Workshop on Automorphic Forms, Geometry, and Arithmetic at Oberwolfach, Germany in February. He also gave a talk entitled "Recent Developments in Number Theory: Selmer Groups, L-functions, and Galois Deformations" at UCLA in March.
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 www.bc.edu/clubs/bcms.
Attention Math Majors and Minors!
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Contact Info
Department of Mathematics
301 Carney Hall
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3806
Telephone: (617) 552-3750
FAX: (617) 552-3789
EMail: math@bc.edu |
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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