Alessio Figalli, Elon Lindenstrauss and Curtis McMullen participated in workshops and gave lectures in the Department of Mathematics.

In fall 2024, three Fields Medalists visited the University of Maryland’s Department of Mathematics.

Elon Lindenstrauss, 2010 Fields Medalist, attended the “Recent Trends in Homogeneous and Teichmuller Dynamics” Workshop at the Brin Mathematics Research Center in September. Lindenstrauss, the Alice Kusiel and Kurt Vorreuter University Chair in the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studies ergodic theory, dynamical systems and their applications to number theory. Lindenstrauss is also a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Alessio Figalli, 2018 Fields Medalist, delivered the Douglis Lecture in November. A Chaired Professor of Mathematics at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, Figalli specializes in the wide-ranging fields of calculus of variations and partial differential equations, focusing especially on optimal transport, functional and geometric inequalities, elliptic partial differential equations, and free boundary problems. His work also extends into other areas within both pure and applied mathematics.

Curtis McMullen, 1998 Fields Medalist, delivered the Distinguished Lectures in Geometric Analysis in December on “Entropy: From Algebraic Integers to Dynamics on Complex Surfaces” and “Billiards and Moduli Spaces.” McMullen is the Cabot Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.