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The Mathematics Department welcomes its newest faculty member, Dr. Gabriel Montoya Vega! Gabriel Montoya Vega, originally from Barranquilla, Colombia, earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Universidad del Atlántico, a master’s from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, and a Ph.D. from The George Washington University under Professor Józef H. Przytycki. His research focuses on knot theory, including link invariants, skein modules, and Gram determinants, and he has presented his work at renowned institutes such as the Institut Henri Poincaré (France), Oberwolfach (Germany), RIMS (Japan), and the Alfréd Rényi Institute (Hungary). After completing his NSF-Ascend Postdoctoral Fellowship at…

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Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium 2025 (GPOTS 2025) The Symposium will be hosted by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras. Date: October 20 – October 24, 2025 Location: The Embassy Suites by Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico The Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium (GPOTS) is an annual conference in mathematics which is held in the USA. The conference covers the areas of operator theory and operator algebras and has taken place since 1981. Participants come from the major mathematical institutions in the world. This year’s conference is dedicated to Professor George Elliott in…

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Algebraic Structures in Topology: Distinguished Lecture Series Lecture Series: May 2-3 2025, UPR-RP, Anfiteatro CN-142. Colloquium: May 5, 2025, 3:30- 4:30pm, UPR Mayagüez, Monzon 201 This event is part of the Algebraic structures in topology conference series sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Speaker Laurentiu Maxim (Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Lecture Series Title: A guided introduction to intersection homology and applications Intersection homology was introduced by Goresky and MacPherson in order to recover some of the classical results and properties of manifolds (like Poincare duality, Lefschetz type theorems and Hodge theory for complex manifolds) in the context of singular…

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