Welcome!
The Brin Mathematics Research Center is a research center that sponsors activity in all areas of pure and applied mathematics and statistics. The Brin MRC was funded through a generous gift from the Brin Family. The Brin MRC is part of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Activities sponsored by the Brin MRC include long programs, conferences & workshops, special lecture series, and summer schools. The Brin MRC provides ample opportunities for short-term and long-term visitors that are interested in interacting with the faculty at the University of Maryland and in experiencing the metropolitan Washington DC area.
The mission of the Brin MRC is to promote excellence in mathematical sciences. The Brin MRC is home to educational and research activities in all areas of mathematics. The Brin MRC provides opportunities to the global mathematical community to interact with researchers at the University of Maryland. The center allows the University of Maryland to expand and showcase its mathematics and statistics research excellence nationally and internationally.
Brin Center’s Launch Multiplies Global Math Renown
November 6, 2025
The University of Maryland was a welcoming home for our family for many years. We hope that the new center will significantly advance mathematics research at Maryland.
– Michael Brin (December 2021)
Spring 2026 at the Brin MRC
- Recent Developments in Operator Algebras (2/4/2026 –2/6/2026)
Organizer: Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Maryland) - Uncertainty Quantification from a Statistics Perspective (2/18/2026 – 2/20/2026)
Organizers: Snigdansu Chatterjee (UMBC), Abba Gumel (Maryland), Eric Slud (Maryland) - Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems (3/2/2026 – 3/6/2026)
Organizers: Arka Adhikari (Maryland), Marek Biskup (UCLA), Ron Peled (Maryland) - Math & Magic (3/23/2026 – 3/27/2026)
Organizers: Matt Baker (Georgeia Tech), Art Benjamin (Harvey Mudd), Doron Levy (Maryland) - Current Trends in Fluid Dynamics (4/8/2026 – 4/10/2026)
Organizers: Theodore Drivas (Stony Brook University), Huy Nguyen (Maryland) - The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Universality Class and Related Topics (4/20/2026 – 4/24/2026)
Organizers: Ivan Corwin (Columbia University), Evgeni Dimitrov (USC), Konstantin Matetski (Michigan State University) - A Retrospective on the Career of Sergey Novikov (5/4/2026 – 5/8/2026)
Organizers: Boris Botvinnik (University of Oregon), Roberto de Leo (Howard University), Jonathan Rosenberg (Maryland) - Geometric PDE Challenges in Science and Engineering (6/2/2026 – 6/5/2026)
Organizers: Kaushik Bhattacharya (Caltech), Andrea Bonito (Texas A&M University), Ricardo Nochetto (Maryland), Shawn Walker (Louisiana State University
Future Activities
Summer 2026
- Summer school – OneMath World School: Topics in Mathematical Biology (6/22/2026 – 6/26/2026)
Organizers: Abba Gumel (Maryland), Doron Levy (Maryland), Lizhen Lin (Maryland) - Arithmetic (and Non-Arithmetic) Groups – Algebraic, Geometric and Analytic Aspects (7/13/2026 – 7/17/2026)
Organizers: Uri Bader (Maryland), Roman Sauer (KIT) - Summer school – ABC: Adinkra Brin Commons (8/3/2026 – 8/7/2026)
Organizers: Radhakrishnan Balu (Maryland), Charles Doran (University of Alberta), Tristan Hübsch (Howard University), S. James Gates (Maryland)
Fall 2026
- Structure-Preserving Numerical Methods for Nonlinear PDEs with Uncertainty (8/24/2026 – 8/28/2026)
Organizers: Alina Chertock (NC State University), Alexander Kurganov (SUSTech), Maria Lukacova (University of Mainz) - Mathematics of Dynamical Systems in Modern Machine Learning (9/9/2026 – 9/11/2026)
Organizers: Nan Chen (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Qi Di (Purdue University), Reza Malek-Madani (USNA), Haizhao Yang (Maryland) - Recent Progress on the Unitary Dual Problem (9/22/2026 – 9/25/2026)
Organizers: Tom Haines (Maryland), Dihua Jiang (University of Minnesota), Baiying Liu (Purdue University), Lucas Mason-Brown (University of Texas at Austin) - From Dynamics to C*-Algebras and Back Again: Exploring Topological Invariants (10/5/2026 – 10/8/2026)
Organizers: Scott Schmieding (Penn State University), Rodrigo Trevino (Maryland), Mike Whittaker (University of Glasgow) - Rigidity Theory of Diffeomorphisms and Flows (10/19/2026 – 10/23/2026)
Organizers: Bassam Fayad (Maryland), Jonathan DeWitt (Penn State University), Andrey Gogolev (Ohio State University), Zhenqi Wang (Michigan State University) - PDE Methods in Biology (11/2/2026 – 11/6/2026)
Organizers: Christopher Henderson (Maryland), Adrian Lam (Ohio State University), Yoichiro Mori (University of Pennsylvania), Benoit Perthame (Sorbonne University) - Topology of algebraic varieties (11/16/2026 – 11/20/2026)
Organizers: Patrick Brosnan (Maryland), Laure Flapan (Michigan State University), John Christian Ottem (University of Oslo), Charles Vial (Bielefeld University) - Normal rank and Dehn surgery numbers in group theory and topology (12/1/2026 – 12/4/2026)
Organizers: Lvzhou Chen (Purdue University), Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Maryland), Tye Lidman (NC State University), Yash Lodha (Purdue University) - Representation Theory and Geometry of Loop Groups and their Schubert Varieties (12/14/2026 – 12/18/2026)
Organizers: Jiuzu Hong (UNC-Chapel Hill), Shrawan Kumar (UNC-Chapel Hill), Zhiwei Yun (MIT)
Spring 2027
- Numerical Methods and Analysis of AB Initio Models of Exotic Quantum Phases of Matter (2/22/2027 – 2/24/2027)
Organizers: Eric Cances (Ecole des Ponts), Fabian Faulstich (RPI), Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard), Daniel Massatt (NJIT) - Cohomology theories on ring spectra (3/8/2027 – 3/12/2027)
Organizers: Sanath Devalapurkar (University of Chicago), Jeremy Hahn (MIT), Andrew Senger (Maryland), Allen Yuan (Northwestern University) - Symplectic topology, gauge theory, and low-dimensional topology (3/30/2027 – 4/2/2027)
Organizers: Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner (Maryland), Thomas Mark (University of Virginia), Boyu Zhang (Maryland) - Billiards, Spectral Geometry, and Quantum Chaos (4/12/2027 – 4/15/2027)
Organizers: Francisco Arana-Herrera (Rice), Semyon Dyatlov (MIT), Jens Marklof (Bristol) - Young Investigator Workshop in Probability Theory (4/26/2027 – 4/28/2027)
Organizers: Arka Adhikari (Maryland), Sandra Cerra (Maryland), Yu Gu (Maryland), Ron Peled (Maryland) - Fluctuations in Stochastic Systems: to Equilib- rium and Beyond (5/5/2027 – 5/7/2027)
Organizers: Alex Dunlap (Duke University), Yu Gu (Maryland) - Several Complex Variables and Geometry of Real Hypersurfaces (5/17/2027 – 5/20/2027)
Organizers: Shiferaw Berhanu (Maryland), Peter Ebenfelt (UCSD), Dusty Grundmeier, Ming Xiao (UCSD) - Structure-Preserving Approximation Methods for Multiphysics Problems (6/7/2027 – 6/9/2027)
Organizers: Jean-Luc Guermond (Texas A&M University), Matthias Maier (Texas A&M University), Ignacio Tomas (Texas Tech University)
Summer 2027
- Summer School: Compactifications of moduli spaces of varieties (7/12/2027 – 7/16/2027)
Organizers: Dori Bejleri (Maryland), Junyan Zhao (Maryland) - Summer School: Interactions between arithmetic geometry and commutative algebra (7/26/2027 – 7/30/2027)
Organizers: Bhargav Bhatt (IAS and Princeton), Alexander Petrov (MIT), Jakub Witaszek (Northwestern University), Bogdan Zavyalov (Maryland)
Past Activities
2022-2023
- Low-Dimensional Topology and Homeomorphism Groups (9/6/2022-9/10/2022)
Organizers: Lei Chen, Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, Boyu Zhang - Modern Topics in Probability (10/17/2022-10/21/2022)
Organizers: Sandra Cerrai, Dima Dolgopyat, Yu Gu, Leonid Koralov - Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture (11/4/2022)
Speaker: Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann Institute & NYU) - Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture (postponed)
Speaker: Avner Friedman (Ohio State University) - Stochastic PDEs and Related Topics (11/14/2022-11/16/2022)
Organizers: Sandra Cerrai, Yu Gu, and Shalin Parekh - Rare events: Analysis, Numerics, and Applications (2/27/2023-3/3/2023)
Organizers: Maria Cameron and Pratyush Tiwary - Branching Processes and Reaction-Diffusion Equations (3/8/2023-3/10/2023)
Organizers: Leonid Koralov (Maryland) and Lenya Ryzhik (Stanford) - Human Behavior and Disease Dynamics (4/24/2023-4/28/2023)
Organizers: Bill Fagan and Abba Gumel - Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture (4/27/2024): The Mathematics of Consilience
Simon Levin (Princeton University) - Partial Hyperbolicity (5/8/2023-5/12/2023)
Organizers: Dima Dolgopyat (Maryland), Federico Rodriguez Hertz (Penn State), Amie Wilkinson (Chicago) - Frontiers of Numerical PDEs (5/16/2023-5/19/2023)
Organizers: Howard Elman, Tobias von Petersdorff, Andrea Bonito, Enrique Otarola, Abner J. Salgado, Shawn W. Walker - Summer School: Partial Hyperbolicity (5/30/2023-6/9/2023)
Organizers: Dima Dolgopyat (Maryland), Federico Rodriguez Hertz (Penn State), Amie Wilkinson (Chicago) - Summer School: Fluid Dynamics (7/17/2023-7/21/2023)
Organizers: Huy Nguyen and Hussain Ibdah
2023-2024
- Polylogarithms, Cluster Algebras, and Scattering Amplitudes (9/11/2023-9/15/2023)
Organizers: Christian Zickert (Maryland), Herbert Gangl (Durham University), Dani Kaufman (Copenhagen University), Zack Greenberg (Heidelberg University) - Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture (9/20/23): Predictive Science and Deep Learning
Wolfgang Dahmen (University of South Carolina/RWTH Aachen) - Low Complexity Dynamical Systems (10/2/2023-10/6/2023)
Organizers: Rodrigo Trevino (Maryland), Adam Kanigowski (Maryland), Darren Creutz (USNA) - Statistical Inference on Networks and High-Dimensional Data (10/18/2023-10/20/2023)
Organizers: Vince Lyzinski (Maryland), Avanti Athreya (Johns Hopkins University), Minh Tang (NC State University) - Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture (11/8/2023): Some Recent Progress in Spin Glass Theory
Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford University) - Mathematics of Malaria Transmission Dynamics (11/13/2023-11/17/2023)
Organizers: Lauren Childs (Virginia Tech), Abba Gumel (Maryland), Jemal Mohammed-Awel (Morgan State) - Applied Stochastic Processes for Encounter Problems (2/5/2024-2/9/2024)
Organizers: Bill Fagan (Maryland), Ricardo Martinez-Garcia (HZDR, Görlitz, Germany) - Scientific Machine Learning: Theory and Algorithms (2/21/2024-2/23/2024)
Organizers: Maria Cameron (Maryland), Haizhao Yang (Maryland), Chunmei Wang (University of Florida) - Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture (March 1, 2024)
Jens Marklof (University of Bristol) - Mathematical Models of Electronic Transport and Phases in Low-Dimensional Materials (3/11/2024-3/15/2024)
Organizers: Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine), Mitchell Luskin (Minnesota), Allan H. Macdonald (Austin), Dionisios Margetis (Maryland) - Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture (March 14, 2024)
Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine) - Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis (3/21/2024-3/22/2024)
Organizers: Victor De Oliveira (University of Texas at San Antonio), Donald Martin (North Carolina State University) - Dynamics Students Days (4/1/24-4/4/24)
Organizers: Dima Dolgopyat, Spencer Durham, Bassam Fayad, Enrique Pujals (CUNY) - MAMBio Day (4/5/24)
Organizers: Rebecca Everett, Bill Fagan, Doron Levy, Allison Lewis, John Nardini - Brin MRC Distinguished Lectures (April 10-12, 2024)
Nigel Hitchin (University of Oxford) - Advances in Higgs Bundles (4/15/2024-4/19/2024)
Organizers: Steven Bradlow (UIUC), Bill Goldman (Maryland), Richard Wentworth (Maryland) - Big10 Math Chairs Meeting (5/3/24)
Organizer: Doron Levy - Several Complex Variables, Complex Geometry and related PDEs (5/13/2024-5/17/2024)
Organizers: Shiferaw Berhanu (Maryland), Tamas Darvas (Maryland), Bernhard Lamel (Texas A&M University at Qatar), Nordine Mir (Texas A&M University at Qatar) - Vistas in Number Theory (6/3/2024-6/7/2024)
Organizers: Niranjan Ramachandran (Maryland) and Larry Washington (Maryland) - Brin Maryland Mathematics Camp (6/17/24-6/28/24)
Organizers: Todd Rowland (Maryland) and Larry Washington (Maryland) - Summer School: Tracer Mixing in Fluids Across Planetary Scales (7/8/2024-7/19/2024)
Organizers: Thaddeus Komacek (Astronomy, Maryland), Jacob Wenegrat (Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Maryland), Vedran Lekic (Geology, Maryland) - Summer School: PDE and Randomness (8/5/2024-8/9/2024)
Organizers: Sandra Cerrai (Maryland), Leonid Koralov (Maryland), Yu Gu (Maryland)
2024-2025
- Logic at Maryland (8/26/2024-8/30/2024)
Organizers: Artem Chernikov (Maryland), Chris Laskowski (Maryland), Christian Rosendal (Maryland), Jenna Zomback (Maryland) - Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture (August 28, 2024)
Alexander Kechris (Caltech) - Macroscopic Behavior of Deterministic Systems (9/9/2024-9/12/2024)
Organizers: Carlangelo Liverani (University of Tor Vergata and University of Maryland) and Stefano Olla (University of Paris Dauphine and GSSI l’Aquila) - Recent Trends in Homogeneous and Teichmuller Dynamics (9/23/2024-9/27/2024)
Organizers: Francisco Arana-Herrera (Maryland) and Giovanni Forni (Maryland) - Representation Theory and Lie groups: in celebration of the career of Jeffrey Adams (10/14/2024-10/17/2024)
Organizers: Tom Haines (Maryland), Paul Mezo (Carleton University), Annegret Paul (Western Michigan University), and Yiannis Sakellaridis (Johns Hopkins) - Statistical Theory of Deep Neural Network Models (11/7/2024-11/9/2024)
Organizers: Lizhen Lin (Maryland), Vince Lyzinsky (Maryland), and Yun Yang (Maryland) - Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture (November 13, 2024)
Maria Chudnovsky (Princeton) - Disease Dynamics and Human Behavior (11/18/2024-11/22/2024)
Organizers: Henri Berestycki (Maryland & EHESS Paris), Mallory Harris (Stanford), and Joshua Weitz (Maryland) - Perspecitves on Moduli in Algebraic Geometery (1/27/2025 -1/31/2025)
Organizers: Dori Bejleri (Maryland), Kenny Ascher (UC Irvine), Kristin DeVleming (UC San Diego), and Junyan Zhao (Maryland) - Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture (February 12, 2025)
Albert Cohen (Sorbonne) - Hamiltonian Dynamics at Maryland (2/24/2025-2/28/2025)
Organizers: Bassam Fayad (Maryland), Dima Dolgopyat (Maryland), Vadim Kaloshin (IST, Austria), and Jaime Paradela (Maryland) - Geometric Approaches to the Local Langlands Program (3/10/2025-3/13/2025)
Organizers: Clifton Cunningham (University of Calgary), Peter Dillery (Maryland), Thomas Haines (Maryland), and Alexander Bertoloni Meli (Bonn University/Boston University) - Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture (March 13, 2025)
Harrison Zhou (Yale) - Mid-Atlantic Seminar on Numbers (MASON – 7) (3/29/2025-3/30/2025)
Organizer: Larry Washington (Maryland) - Dynamics Students Days (3/31/25-4/2/25)
Organizers: Dima Dolgopyat, Spencer Durham, Bassam Fayad, Enrique Pujals (CUNY) - Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture (April 2, 2025)
Chris Cosner (University of Miami) - Lorentzian, Affine, and Hyperbolic Differential Geometry – in Memory of Todd Drumm (4/7/2025-4/9/2025)
Organizers: Karin Melnick (University of Luxembourg), William Goldman (Maryland), Charles Frances (University of Strasbourg), and Jill McGowan (Howard). - Geometry and Representation Theory Associated to G-Torsors on Curves (4/21/2025-4/25/2025)
Organizers:Johan Martens (University of Edinburgh), Swarnava Mukhopadhyay (TIFR Mumbai), and Richard Wentworth (Maryland) - Weyl Laws Across Mathematics (5/5/2025-5/9/2025)
Organizers: Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner (Maryland), Rohil Prasad (UC Berkeley), and Xin Zhou (Cornell University) - Big10 Math Chairs Meeting (5/16/25)
Organizer: Doron Levy - Bifurcation and Chaos in Population Biology (5/28/2025-5/30/2025)
Organizers: Abba Gumel (Maryland), Sana Jahedi (Maryland), Alex Safsten (Maryland), Roberto De Leo (Howard), Jim Yorke (Maryland) - Modern Developments in Geometry and Higher Structures (6/9/2025-6/13/2025)
Organizers: Ettore Aldrovandi (Florida State), Piotr Pstragowski (Harvard), and Niranjan Ramachandran (Maryland) - Stochastic PDEs (6/23/2025-6/27/2025)
Organizers: Raluca Balan (University of Ottawa), Mickey Salins (Boston University), Samy Tindel (Purdue University) - Summer School: Random Dynamical Systems, Partial Differential Equations, and Stochastic Analysis (7/21/2025-7/25/2025)
Organizers: Jacob Bedrossian (UCLA), Alex Blumenthal (Georgia Tech), and Sam Punshon-Smith (Tulane) - Summer School: Scientific Machine Learning (8/4/2025-8/8/2025)
Organizers: Deep Ray (Maryland) and Haizhao Yang (Maryland)
2025-2026
- Recent Developments Sparse Equidistribution (9/8/2025 – 9/11/2025)
Organizers: Adam Kanigowski (Maryland) and Maksym Radziwill (Northwestern) - Counting Invariants and Enumerative Geometry (9/22/2025 – 9/26/2025)
Organizers: Dori Bejleri (Maryland), Amin Gholampour (Maryland), Dhruv Ranganathan (University of Cambridge) - North American Descriptive Set Theory Meeting (10/6/2025 – 10/10/2025)
Organizers: Filippo Calderoni (Rutgers University), Christian Rosendal (Maryland), Jenna Zomback (Maryland) - Contemporary Issues and Future Opportunities in Applied Mathematics – in honor of Reza Malek-Madani (10/17/2025 – 10/19/2025)
Organizers: Nan Chen (UW Madison), Evelyn Lunasin (USNA), Eitan Tadmor (Maryland), Doron Levy (Maryland), Nick Moore (Colgate), Stephen Wiggins (USNA) - Complex and p-adic Simpson Correspondence (11/3/2025 – 11/7/2025)
Organizers: Patrick Brosnan (Maryland), Niranjan Ramachandran (Maryland), Bogdan Zavyalov (Maryland) - The Interplay Between Distance Geometry, Combinatorics, and Coding Theory (11/18/2025 – 11/21/2025)
Organizers: Alexander Barg (Maryland), Peter Boyvalenkov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Qëndrim Gashi (Maryland) - Maryland Statistical Symposium (12/5/2025 – 12/6/2025)
Organizer: Lizhen Lin (Maryland), Vince Lyzinski (Maryland), Yun Yang (Maryland)
