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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

Analysis

Data Science, Probability & Quantum Computing

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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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Sep17

U.S. National Academies Webinar

Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 PM

Virtual

Do you want to know " How Are Countries Integrating Data Science, Computational Thinking and AI in K-12 Mathematics Education?" Join us for the U.S. National Academies Webinar : Date: Sept 17, 2026 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Must Register to get a link A panel of experts will discuss the

Sep18

Analysis Seminar: Optimal Sparse Bounds and Commutator Characterizations Without Doubling

Sep 18, 2026, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Speaker: Brett Wick, Washington University in St. Louis Title: Optimal Sparse Bounds and Commutator Characterizations Without Doubling Abstract: We examine dyadic paraproducts and commutators in the non-homogeneous setting, where the underlying Borel measure $\mu$ is not assumed to be doubling. We first establish a pointwise sparse domination for dyadic paraproducts

Sep18

Mathematics Colloquium: The Corona Problem

Sep 18, 2026, 3:30 - 4:30 PM

Speaker: Brett Wick, Washington University in St. Louis Title: The Corona Problem Abstract: The Corona problem has served as a major motivation for many results in complex function theory, operator theory, and harmonic analysis. In its simplest form, the question asks whether, given $N$ bounded analytic functions $f_1,\ldots,f_N$ on the