Category Archives: Announcements

Keep Up with the Latest Math News and Research

Like most other scheduled events this spring, the College of Charleston’s math colloquium has cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.  But, if you are missing that weekly dose of interesting cutting-edge math, there are still ways you can get something similar. Check out Talk Math With Your Friends, a Zoom-based math seminar series very similar […]

Princeton Mathematician John Conway Dies of COVID-19

The prolific mathematician John Conway may not be the first but is certainly the most famous mathematician to die from complications related to the current pandemic.  (See this announcement from Princeton University.) One of the most amazing things that Conway discovered in his long career was a very simple set of rules that reproduce surprisingly […]

Sad News

Professor Ben Cox passed away peacefully on Saturday September 28, 2019 surrounded by his family.  Ben earned his Ph.D. at UC San Diego, under advisor Thomas Enright, where he worked on algebraic methods in representation theory.  He and his wife, math department chair Liz Jurisich, joined the College of Charleston in 1999 and he spent […]

Congratulations to Math Department Student Award Recipients

The Susan Prazak Award for Future Teachers is given annually in honor of Sue Prazak, who taught at CofC from 1972 to 1999.  This year’s recipient is Joe Casagranda. The Ewa Wojcicka Award is our departments top award, given in memory of Professor Wojcicka to a recipient showing exceptional ability, creativity and potential in mathematics. […]

Algebra Seminar for April 5th

At this Friday’s algebra seminar, Andy Walker will conclude his lecture demonstrating some interesting examples of localization of categories.  Anyone interested is welcome to join us at 2PM in 353 RSS.