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Our students — pursuing BA, BS, MS, and PhD degrees — have unmatched access to internships, research collaborations, and careers at the NSA, NIH, Federal Reserve, MITRE, and leading tech companies — all within commuting distance of our Fairfax campus.

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Our faculty work across eleven active research areas, from pure algebra to quantum computing and data science.

PDEs, Optimization & Numerical Analysis

Dynamics, Geometry & Topology

Algebra & Combinatorics

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Mathematics at Mason — Graduate Life

Mason's MS and PhD programs offer funded positions — including stipend, tuition waiver, and graduate health insurance — plus a supportive mentoring culture and direct access to the D.C. research corridor. Students work with 30+ tenure-track faculty, kickstart their studies with the Summer LaunchPad, gain teaching experience through the PAT MATH program, and expand their career horizons through the Industrial Immersion Program or INMAS partnership. MEGL and CMAI offer additional research and outreach opportunities.

Mathematics at Mason — Undergraduate Life

Mason mathematics undergraduates choose from BA and BS degrees with concentrations in applied, traditional, or actuarial mathematics, leading to careers in consulting, data science, teaching, and government — or to graduate school. The D.C. metro location means internship and research opportunities that most programs simply cannot match.

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Oct16

Analysis Seminar: Hypercyclicity and Recurrence of C0-semigroups on Banach Spaces

Oct 16, 2026, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Speaker: Gabriela Bulancea, GMU Title: Hypercyclicity and Recurrence of C 0-semigroups on Banach Spaces Abstract: I will present results on the hypercyclicity and recurrence of strongly continuous (C0) semigroups of operators on Banach spaces, and of their discretizations. Some of these results illustrate how the spectrum of the generator of

Oct16

Topology, Algebraic Geometry, and Dynamics Seminar (TADS): Levin-Wen is a gauge theory: Entanglement from topology

Oct 16, 2026, 1:30 - 2:30 PM

Speaker: Kyle Kawagoe, University of Maryland Title: Levin-Wen is a gauge theory: Entanglement from topology Abstract: The interplay between fusion category theory and quantum topological phases of matter has produced many fruitful connections between mathematics and physics. One such example is the class of Levin-Wen models which take a unitary

Oct22

American Society for Intercellular Communication (ASIC)

Oct 22, 2026, 12:00 PM - Oct 24, 2026, 2:00 PM

William F. Bolger Center, Potomac, Maryland

There's still time to register. Visit the ASIC website or send an email to hcox9@gmu.edu . The meeting is organized by a group of investigators seeking to create a platform for informal exchange of ideas on emerging questions and cutting-edge developments in the field of Extracellular Vesicles (EVs), Extracellular Particles