The Ph.D. program of the Vanderbilt mathematics department received high ratings in a new report from the National Research Council (NRC) that offers insights into the quality of doctoral programs in mathematics at research universities in the United States.

The completion of two renovations – one physical and one electronic – mark the beginning of the 2010-2011 academic year for the Department of Mathematics. Offices and classrooms on the second floor have been remodeled, and the department web site has been redesigned.

The Department of Mathematics will host a one-day NSF & Shanks workshop on “The Complexity of Classification Problems in Ergodic Theory” October 30, 2010. The main speaker of the workshop will be Alekos Kechris of Caltech.

The department hosted a two-day workshop on Kähler and Differential Geometry September 25-26, 2010. The workshop addressed recent advances in the study of special metrics on manifolds and their moduli space.

Graduate students were recognized for excellence in teaching and research, and undergraduates were honored for excellence in mathematics at the department's 2010 student awards ceremony.