University of Pittsburgh - Department of Mathematics

Welcome

From abstract problems in algebra, analysis, and geometry to the design of efficient algorithms and computational simulations in scientific computing and mathematical biology, our department has an active and broadly based research faculty working in diverse areas of mathematics and its applications. More >

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Research Areas

Our students and faculty are actively engaged in projects in many of these research areas. The students are not limited to these areas and the faculty encourage graduate students to contact them to discuss their ideas. More>

Seminars and Colloquia

During the academic year we hold a weekly department colloquium and a number of research seminars. Once a year the Department holds the Edmund R. Michalik Distinguished Lecture in the Mathematical Sciences.
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Open Faculty Positions

Representation Theory/Algebraic Geometry/Number Theory/Combinatorics

Topology/Geometry

Scientific Computing/Numerical Analysis
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News and Events

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November 6, 2009
4:00pm
COLLOQUIUM
Prof. Alexander Buium, Univ. of New Mexico
"Arithmatic Differential Equations"
704 Thackeray Hall More>

November 5, 2009
5:30pm
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Jasun Gong, Univ. of Pittsburgh
"analysis on Manifolds, Part I: Curvature Conditions"
703 Thackeray Hall

November 5, 2009
12:00pm
ALGEBRA, COMBINATORICS AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR
Dr. Petr Pancoska, Center for Clinical Pharmacology, Dept. of Medicine, Univ. of Pittsburgh
"Entromics as the Theoretical Foundation of Individual Genomics: From Gene Sequencing to Severity of Cystic Fibrosis Using Physics in Graph Theory"
703 Thackeray Hall

November 5, 2009
12:00pm
WOUND HEALING SEMINAR
"TBA"
323 Thackeray Hall

November 4, 2009
4:00pm
TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Prof. Benjamin Espinoza
"TBA"
703 Thackeray Hall

November 3, 2009
4:00pm
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Mr. Veysel Nezir, Univ. of Pittsburgh
"Perturbation of Frames for Subspace of a Hilbert Space 2 "
703 Thackeray Hall

November 3, 2009
1:30pm
LABORATORY OF AXIOMATICS SEMINAR
Prof. George Sparling, Univ. of Pittsburgh
"Alchemy"
703 Thackeray Hall

November 3, 2009
12:00pm
MATHEMATICAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR
"TBA"
703 Thackeray Halll

October 2009
An interview with Pitt Math Professor Gunduz Caginalp was published as the cover story in the Quantitative Finance magazine Wilmott More>

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