UMass Boston

Research & Impact

Research interests of members of the department include representation theory, differential geometry, combinatorics, optimization, probability, statistics, computational biology, hydrology, neuroimaging, and mathematics education.

Faculty in the department publish their research in prestigious journals, and participate actively in conferences and workshops. The department organizes regular research seminars.

Publications

Download a list of the most recent publications from the UMass Boston Department of Mathematics.

For a more comprehensive list, click here. (Last Update: October 19, 2023)

Mathematics Department Colloquium Series

The presentations cover a large variety of topics and are intended for a general math audience. The colloquia usually take place on Wednesday afternoons in the Mathematics Department Seminar and Common Room (W03-154-28). For more information, please see below:

Fall 2025 Colloquia

Date: Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 from 4:00 - 5:00pm
Speaker: Daniel Álvarez-Gavela
Title: Does the Symplectic Topology of a Cotangent Bundle Remember the Smooth Topology of the Base?
Abstract: If two smooth manifolds are diffeomorphic, then their cotangent bundles are symplectomorphic, i.e. they are not just equivalent as smooth manifolds but also as symplectic manifolds. Whether the converse holds is a major open problem in symplectic topology. I will give a survey of known results in this direction, as well as for related problems such as the nearby Lagrangian conjecture, and present some recent progress joint with M. Abouzaid, S. Courte and T. Kragh. 

Colloquia from Past Semesters