Mathematics at Dartmouth

Department Announcements

Prosser Lecture 9/23/26 6pm, Kemeny 008

We are currently accepting grader applications for fall!

Graduate Students

Welcoming our incoming PhD students

We are pleased to extend a warm welcome to five new graduate students in our department! Clockwise from upper left: Yibo Wang, William Easton, Sameel Siddiqi, Shreya Sinha; centered, Qingze Li.

composite image of 2026 incoming graduate students, clockwise from upper left: Yibo Wang, William Easton, Sameel Siddiqi, Shreya Sinha; centered, Qingze Li

Special Event

David Mumford of Brown to give Prosser Lecture

David Mumford of Brown University will give the Reese T. Prosser Memorial Lecture, titled Comparing AIs and the Human Brain: the Challenge of Agency at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, September 23 in 008 Kemeny. (Click/tap image for full size poster.)

poster for Prosser lecture by David Mumford, with photo and abstract

Alumni News

Allison Henrich PhD ’08 Writes Book on Self-Exploration Using Math and Art

Allison Henrich PhD ’08 with artist Esther Loopstra explores how to grow using both logic and intuition in the new book Think Like an Artist, Create Like a Mathematician. The book will be included in the “Everyone Wins” gift bags given to the 2027 Oscar® nominees in the major acting and directing categories! Henrich is a Professor of Mathematics at Seattle University and the editor of MAA FOCUS, the newsmagazine of the Mathematical Association of America. Her research spans knot theory and recreational mathematics.

Fredholm $\Delta$-filtrations of Fredholm groups

Ahmad Reza Haj Saeedi Sadegh, Jody Trout

Topology and its Applications

On the non-abelian Hodge locus I

Philip Engel, Salim Tayou

Selecta Mathematica

Thursday, September 10
9 a.m.	Math Department Open House for First-Year Students
Thursday, September 17
1:30 p.m.	Topology Seminar
Tuesday, September 22
5:30 p.m.	∾ Prosser Lecture ∾ Reopening the study of the Foundations of Math
Wednesday, September 23
6 p.m.	∾ Prosser Lecture ∾ Comparing AIs and the Human Brain: the challenge of Agency
Thursday, September 24
3:15 p.m.	Math Colloquium
Thursday, October 8
4 p.m.	Math Colloquium
Tuesday, October 13
1:15 p.m.	Combinatorics Seminar

Thursday, September 10

9 a.m.

Math Department Open House for First-Year Students

Thursday, September 17

1:30 p.m.

Topology Seminar

Tuesday, September 22

5:30 p.m.

∾ Prosser Lecture ∾
Reopening the study of the Foundations of Math

Wednesday, September 23

6 p.m.

∾ Prosser Lecture ∾
Comparing AIs and the Human Brain: the challenge of Agency