Special Events

Upcoming Events

UW Math Alumni Gathering

All current and former members of the department are invited.

January 9 2025, 7 - 9pm

Location is TBA

Past Events

• Math Undergraduate Graduation Celebration - Wed, Jun 5 2024
• UW Math Hour Olympiad - Sun, Jun 2 2024
• Math 381 Service Learning Poster Session (Students in Math 381) - Wed, May 29 2024
• SMALL BOUNDARIES AND CIRCULAR REASONING (Stefan Steinerberger) - Sun, May 19 2024
• Slicing space (Cynthia Vinzant) - Sun, Apr 21 2024
• WXML poster session - Thu, Mar 7 2024
• Geometric miracles (Sergey Fomin, University of Michigan) - Sun, Mar 3 2024
• Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience - Thu, Feb 15 2024
• WXML Poster Session - Thu, Dec 7 2023
• Special Colloquium - Thu, Dec 7 2023
• Special Colloquium - Wed, Dec 6 2023
• Special Colloquium - Tue, Dec 5 2023
• Special Colloquium - Mon, Dec 4 2023
• Special Colloquium - Thu, Nov 30 2023
• Special Colloquium - Wed, Nov 29 2023
• Special Colloquium - Tue, Nov 28 2023
• Special Colloquium - Mon, Nov 27 2023
• Special Colloquium - Tue, Nov 21 2023
• Special Colloquium - Mon, Nov 20 2023
• Using monodromy to recover symmetries of polynomial systems (Special seminar talk) (Viktor Korotynskiy, Czech Institute for Informatics and Cybnernetics at Czech Technical University in Prague) - Tue, Jun 27 2023
• Math Department Undergraduate Graduation Celebration - Thu, Jun 8 2023
• Girih Tiles: Modern Math in Medieval Islamic Architecture (Peter J. Lu, Harvard University) - Fri, Apr 21 2023
• UW Math Day - Mon, Mar 20 2023
• WXML poster session - Thu, Mar 9 2023
• Modeling the Melt: What math tells us about sea ice and polar ecosystems in a warming climate (Kenneth M. Golden, University of Utah) - Fri, Feb 24 2023
• Hausdorff dimension of Besicovitch sets of Cantor graphs (Iqra Altaf, University of Chicago) - Wed, Jun 15 2022
• Three-minute thesis presentations (Abeer Al Ahmadieh, David Clancy, Nico Courts, Kirill Golubnichiy, Sam Roven, Stark Ryan, David Simmons, Lei Xue, and Yihao Zhang, UW) - Wed, Jun 8 2022
• The Anatomy of a Number (Chaitra H. Nagaraja, Fordham University) - Fri, May 13 2022
• A world from a sheet of paper (Tadashi Tokieda, Stanford University) - Fri, Apr 22 2022
• Teaching and Learning Brown Bag: Should we ask or should we tell? (José M. Guzmán, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington) - Thu, Jan 14 2021
• Masters Oral Exam (Olivia Borghi) - Wed, Jul 15 2020
• UW Math Hour Olympiad: replaced by UW Math Hour talk in 2020 (Cliff Mass) - Sun, Jun 7 2020
• Life in the software industry: one mathematician's perspective (Craig Citro, Google) - Thu, Feb 27 2020
• SNOW BUSINESS: SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING IN THE MOVIES AND BEYOND (Joseph Teran, UCLA) - Fri, Oct 18 2019
• PIMS Hugh C. Morris Lecture: Conditional Expectation and Calderón-Zygmund Operators (Rodrigo Bañuelos, Purdue University) - Thu, May 23 2019
• The game of SET: finding patterns in differences (Bianca Viray, UW) - Sun, May 19 2019
• A virtual walk through curved spaces (Elisabetta Matsumoto, Georgia Tech) - Fri, May 10 2019
• More Data, More (Statistical) Problems (Daniela Witten, University of Washington) - Fri, Mar 1 2019
• From Jellyfish and Wind Turbines to Genomics: Dealing with Data Extremes in Complex Systems (John O. Dabiri, Stanford University) - Fri, Nov 9 2018
• Flying High With Math - Career Seminar for Undergraduates (Sharon Arroyo) - Wed, Oct 24 2018
• Math Department Graduation Open House - Fri, Jun 8 2018
• WXML Middle School Math Teacher Circle - Wed, May 16 2018
• WXML Elementary School Math Teacher Circle - Tue, May 15 2018
• WXML Middle School Math Teacher Circle - Wed, Apr 18 2018
• Walker-Ames Lecture (Dennis Overbye, New York Times) - Tue, Apr 17 2018
• WXML Elementary School Math Teacher Circle - Tue, Apr 17 2018
• WXML Open House - Fri, Mar 9 2018
• WXML Middle School Math Teacher Circle - Wed, Mar 7 2018
• WXML Elementary School Math Teacher Circle - Tue, Mar 6 2018
• Connections and Reconnections: A Link Between Mathematics, Physics and DNA (Mariel Vazquez, UC Davis) - Fri, Feb 16 2018
• Panel discussion: Mental Health for Grad Students - Thu, Feb 8 2018
• WXML Middle School Math Teacher Circle - Wed, Feb 7 2018
• WXML Elementary School Math Teacher Circle - Tue, Feb 6 2018
• WXML Middle School Math Teacher Circle - Wed, Jan 10 2018
• WXML Elementary School Math Teacher Circle - Tue, Jan 9 2018
• WXML Middle School Math Teacher Circle - Wed, Nov 8 2017
• WXML Elementary School Math Teacher Circle - Tue, Nov 7 2017
• Renormalization: a BPHZ theorem for stochastic PDEs (Martin Hairer, Imperial College London) - Wed, Nov 1 2017
• An analyst’s incursion into quantum field theory (Martin Hairer, Imperial College London) - Tue, Oct 31 2017
• Bridging scales: from microscopic dynamics to macroscopic laws (Martin Hairer, Imperial College London) - Mon, Oct 30 2017
• Drawing Conclusions From Drawing a Square (Annalisa Crannell, Franklin & Marshall College) - Fri, Oct 27 2017
• In Remembrance of Stephen Ames Mitchell - Tue, Oct 3 2017
• Seattle Math Club - Sun, Oct 1 2017 , Sun, Oct 15 2017 , Sun, Nov 5 2017 , Sun, Nov 19 2017
• Math Hour Olympiad - Sun, Jun 4 2017
• Applying for academic jobs (Panel (TBA)) - Thu, May 25 2017
• Triangular Numbers and an interesting Equilibrium. (Mel Currie, NSA) - Tue, May 16 2017
• Geometry and Light: The Science of Invisibility (Ulf Leonhardt, Weizmann Institute of Science) - Wed, Apr 12 2017
• A brief introduction to spectral graph theory (John Urschel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Tue, Mar 28 2017
• Mathday for High School Students - Mon, Mar 20 2017
• Smarter Tools for (Citi)Bike Sharing (David Shmoys, Cornell University) - Fri, Dec 2 2016
• Lecture III: Semigroup Spectral Theory and Graph Coloring Games (Fan Chung, University of California, San Diego) - Thu, Oct 27 2016
• Lecture II: 'Sequences: random, structured or something in between?' (Fan Chung, University of California, San Diego) - Wed, Oct 26 2016
• Lecture I: Can you hear the shape of a network? (Fan Chung, University of California, San Diego) - Tue, Oct 25 2016
• Probabilistically Checkable Proofs: deducing a complicated global picture from very simple partial views (Irit Dinur, The Weizmann Institute of Science) - Fri, May 20 2016
• Curtis T. McMullen, Lecture III: Surfaces in the Space of Surfaces - Thu, May 5 2016
• Curtis T. McMullen, Lecture II: Entropy, Integers and Algebraic Dynamics - Wed, May 4 2016
• Curtis T. McMullen, Lecture I: Billiards and Moduli Spaces - Tue, May 3 2016
• Branching Out Across the Solar System (Taylor Perron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Fri, Feb 19 2016
• From Polynomials to Humanoid Robots (Russ Tedrake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Fri, Oct 23 2015
• Laure Saint-Raymond, Lecture III: The case of fluctuations around a global equilibrium - Thu, Oct 8 2015
• Laure Saint-Raymond, Lecture II: A short time convergence result - Wed, Oct 7 2015
• Laure Saint-Raymond, Lecture I: The low density limit: formal derivation - Tue, Oct 6 2015
• Computational Thinking (Jeannette Wing, Microsoft Research) - Fri, Feb 27 2015
• Richard M. Schoen, Lecture III: Localizing solutions of the Einstein equations - Thu, Feb 12 2015
• Richard M. Schoen, Lecture II: Two eigenvalue problems for surfaces - Wed, Feb 11 2015
• Richard M. Schoen, Lecture I: Problems and progress in mathematical relativity - Tue, Feb 10 2015
• Math & Music: Connecting Theory & Practice (Dave Kung, St. Mary's College of Maryland) - Fri, Oct 10 2014
• Physical metaphors for graphs and networks (Dan Spielman, Yale University) - Fri, May 9 2014
• Filling in the gaps: recovery from incomplete information (Maryam Fazel, University of Washington) - Fri, Feb 21 2014