# Spotlight

Mathematicians are accustomed to seeing π in a variety of fields. But professor Tamar Friedmann was still surprised to find it lurking in a formula for energy states of the hydrogen atom. Read more…

# Dinesh Thakur awarded NSA grant

Professor Dinesh Thakur has received a two-year NSA award for a project entitled Multi-zeta and related structures in function field arithmetic. Professor Thakur is a leading figure in this field and is widely known to the mathematical public due to the Arizona Winter School in number theory that he has run at the University of Arizona for many years.

# Upcoming events

### Friday, February 12th, 2016

• 3:00 PM
Probability Seminar
The boundary of the support of super-Brownian motion
Carl Mueller, University of Rochester
Hylan 1106A

### Wednesday, February 17th, 2016

• 11:20 AM
Algebra/Number Theory Seminar
Several Nonarchimedean Variables, Isolated Periodic Points, and Zhang's Conjecture
Alon Levy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Hylan 1106A

### Friday, February 19th, 2016

• 3:00 PM
Probability Seminar
Cutoff for the noisy voter model
Theodore Cox, Syracuse University
Hylan 1106A