Johns Hopkins Department of Mathematics

Congratulations to professors Chris Sogge and Ziquan Zhuang who have won Frontiers of Science Awards at the inaugural International Congress on Basic Science.

These new prizes are given on the basis of outstanding papers published in the past five years. Sogge was selected for his paper "Logarithmic improvements in L^p bounds for eigenfunctions at the critical exponent in the presence of nonpositive curvature" (joint with Matthew Blair), while Zhuang was chosen for the paper "Finite generation for valuations computing stability thresholds and applications to K-stability" (joint with Yuchen Liu and Chenyang Xu).
Read more here: https://icbs.scimeeting.cn/en/web/index/18009_1581229__

Professor Emily Riehl was challenged to explain infinity to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert. ♾️

Mathematician Explains Infinity in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED While the concept of infinity may seem mysterious, mathematicians have developed processes to reason the strange properties of infinity. Mathematician Emily ...

"The perspective of 'zooming out to infinity' offers a novel way to think about old concepts and a path toward the discovery of new ones," says professor Emily Riehl. ♾️

Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics Mathematicians have expanded category theory into infinite dimensions, revealing new connections among mathematical concepts

Congratulations to professor Yiannis Sakellaridis! 🎉

"An invitation to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians, held every four years, is one of the biggest honors in mathematics," says department chair David Savitt.

An invitation to unravel a mathematical mystery The Krieger School's Yiannis Sakellaridis earned the prestigious honor of speaking at the International Congress of Mathematicians, where he'll discuss a conundrum known as L-functions

Johns Hopkins mathematician Joel Spruck and a former student recently succeeded in proving a long-standing conjecture about the area of negatively curved spaces, such as flower petals or coral reefs, a yearslong endeavor full unexpected hurdles and sleepless nights. "This was quite emotionally difficult," Spruck says. "We died a thousand times and then lived. You have the feeling that the gods saved you somehow."

Proof of life Hopkins mathematician Joel Spruck and a former student recently succeeded in proving a long-standing conjecture about the area of negatively curved spaces, such as flower petals or coral reefs, a yearslong endeavor full of unexpected hurdles and sleepless nights

We're hiring!

We are accepting applications for one faculty opening at the tenure track or tenured level, as well as two J.J. Sylvester Assistant Professor postdocs.

Applications may be submitted at http://mathjobs.org/jobs/jhu. Please spread the word!

Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University Full service online faculty recruitment site for mathematical institutions worldwide, offered by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

Congratulations to Caucher Birkar, a former PhD advisee of JHU math professor Vyacheslav Shokurov, on being awarded one of the 2018 Fields Medals this morning!

Caucher Birkar, Who Fled War and Found Asylum, Wins Fields Medal | Quanta Magazine The mathematician Caucher Birkar was born on a subsistence farm and raised in the middle of the brutal war between Iran and Iraq. After fleeing to England, he

Michael Rapoport (U. of Bonn/U. Maryland) will give a special series of three lectures on "Reduction of Shimura varieties" starting next week.

The talks will be on Thursdays, Nov. 16, Nov. 30, and Dec. 7, from 2:00-3:00 in Krieger 413. The talks should be accessible to graduate students.

We are delighted to welcome Wei Zhang (MIT) on November 14-15 for this semester's Monroe H. Martin Lectures.

Prof. Zhang will give a colloquium talk at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, November 14 on "Archimedes' cattle problem, Sylvester numbers, and Heegner points", as well as a number theory seminar at 3 pm on Wednesday, November 15.

http://mathematics.jhu.edu/events/monroe-h-martin-lectures/

This fall's JHU-Maryland Algebra and Number Theory Day will take place at UMD on Saturday, November 4 with talks beginning at 9:30 am. Speakers are Pierre Colmez, Davesh Maulik, Wieslawa Niziol, Nicolas Templier, and Yihang Zhu. Please join us!

Algebra and Number Theory Day | Krieger School of Arts and Sciences | Johns Hopkins University The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is the core institution of Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus

This semester's Baltimore-Washington Differential Geometry Seminar (joint between JHU, Howard University, and UMD) will be held this Saturday, October 28, at Howard University.

Speakers are Kenji Fukaya, Christina Sormani, and Wolfgang Ziller.

For more details here's the poster:http://www.math.jhu.edu/~bernstein/MDGS/FlyerF2017.pdf