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Welcome to the Department of Mathematics at Tufts University, a premier research university in the Boston area. This website contains information about our degree programs, faculty research, course offerings, seminars, and more.

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Tufts University
School of Arts and Sciences
Department of Mathematics
Bromfield-Pearson Hall
503 Boston Avenue
Medford, MA 02155

Phone: 617-627-3235
Fax: 617-627-3966

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News

Assoc. Professor Moon Duchin was named a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.

Numberphile recently did a piece on Asst. Professor Robert Lemke-Oliver's research on prime number digits. Watch the video >

Mathematics graduate student Junyuan Lin won the Student Paper Competition for the 2018 Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods with her paper, "An Adaptive Unsmoothed Aggregation Multigrid Method Based on Path Coverings."

Professor Bruce Boghosian runs the numbers and shows that without redistribution of wealth, the rich get richer and everyone else gets poorer. Learn about Professor Boghosian and his group's findings on the Mathematics of Inequality.

Tufts mathematics Ph.D. alum Aaron Brown breaks decades-old gridlock, the complex Zimmer's conjecture.

Professor Misha Kilmer sets a global agenda for the future of biomedical imaging. See full article in the SIAM July/August 2017 Newsletter.

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Highlighted Events

Spring 2019 Colloquia
Fridays at 4:00pm
Bromfield-Pearson 101
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2018 Martin Guterman Lecture Series
Gigliola Staffilani, "The Many Faces of Dispersive Equations," April 2, 2018.
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2017 Norbert Wiener Lecture Series
Ken Ono, "Polya's program for the Riemann Hypothesis and related problems", December 7-8, 2017.
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On March 6, 2017, the Guterman Lecture will feature Susan Loepp, Professor of Mathematics at Williams College.
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Congratulations to Prof. Xiaozhe Hu, Mathematics graduate student Junyuan Lin, and Computer Science professors Lenore Cowen, Ben Hescott and Donna Slonim, for winning the Disease Module Identification DREAM Challenge.
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The Boston Artists Ensemble performed a concert in memory of beloved Professor Marty Guterman on September 25, 2016, at 3:00pm at St. Paul's Church in Brookline.

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