Welcome to the Department of Mathematics!
Our Department is at an exciting time in our history. We expect to grow dramatically over the next decade. This year, we are hiring 2 Assistant Professors, 7 Postdocs, and a newly endowed Professor of the Practice. Apply here!
Our goals as a department are:
1. To provide world class education to our undergraduate and graduate students, and to do this in a way that is welcoming and equitable.
2. To perform mathematical research at the highest level, on the fundamental problems in the world.
3. To be ambassadors for mathematics within Vanderbilt, in the Nashville community, and beyond.
Among our 24 research faculty, our research covers a wide swath of mathematics, including homotopy theory, operator algebras, geometric group theory, epidemiology, differential geometry, approximation theory, signal processing, differential equations, numerical analysis, mathematical physics, graph theory, and number theory.
Our faculty has 3 International Congress of Mathematicians speakers, 9 Fellows of the AMS, 2 Fellows of SIAM, 5 Sloan Fellows, 2 NSF CAREER awardees, a Conant Prize winner, a Steele Prize winner, a Simons Fellow, a Humboldt Prize winner, 3 AMS plenary speakers, and a Mirzakhani lecturer.
Department News
Koichi Oyakawa receives Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award
Mar. 9, 2024—Koichi Oyakawa, a PhD student in the Vanderbilt Mathematics Department, has received the Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award. As stated in the citation, this premier award from the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School celebrates doctoral students who demonstrate truly exceptional research...
Dr. Lorenzo Gavassino wins the MERAC Prize
Mar. 6, 2024—Dr. Lorenzo Gavassino, a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Vanderbilt Department of Mathematics and member of the VandyGRAF Initiative, has been awarded the 2024 MERAC Prize in Theoretical Astrophysics for his PhD thesis. The prize is awarded by the European Astronomical Society. His thesis focused on a thermodynamics-based formulation of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics for multi-messenger and...
Prof. Osin publishes in Annals of Mathematics
Feb. 25, 2024—Prof. Denis Osin recently published a paper in Annals of Mathematics, widely considered the most prestigious journal in pure mathematics. The paper, “Wreath-like products of groups and their von Neumann algebras I: W*-superrigidity” was written with Adrian Ioana (UCSD), Ionut Chifan (U Iowa), and a former Vanderbilt Ph.D. student Bin Sun (Michigan State U). The...
Welcoming visiting Professor Cabrelli and Professor Molter
Feb. 6, 2024—The Department of Mathematics is pleased to host Carlos Cabrelli, Professor and Investigador Superior (the highest researcher rank in CONICET), along with Ursula Molter, Professor (and former Director of the IMAS UBA/CONICET the largest mathematics institute in Argentina). They are visiting the Department of Mathematics through the Vanderbilt Global Scholar Program. Professors Cabrelli and Molter...