Bicentennial Professor of Mathematics
Amherst CollegeDepartment of Mathematics
Amherst, MA 01002
Amanda Folsom
Department of Mathematics
Amherst, MA 01002
| 2025-26, 2026-27 | ||
| • Modularity and Quantum Topology, American Institute of Mathematics, Pasadena, CA, workshop co-organizer | Oct. 2026 | |
| • CTNT Summer School in Number Theory UConn, invited speaker | June 5-7, 2026 | |
| • 38th Automorphic Forms Workshop Kansas State U., invited lecturer | May 19-23, 2026 | |
| • 2026 Gainesville Int'l Number Theory Conference U. Florida, invited speaker | March 18-22, 2026 | |
| • American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI | Feb. 20-21, 2026 | |
| • Joint Mathematics Meetings Washington DC, | Jan. 4-7, 2026 | |
| • American Institute of Mathematics Pasadena, CA, | Dec. 2025 | |
| • Clemson University, invited seminar speaker | Nov. 10, 2025 | |
| • Harvard University CMSA, Geometry of Machine Learning | Sept. 16-18, 2025 | |
| 2024-2025 | ||
| • AMS Spring Western Sectional California Polytechnic U., AMS Special Session invited speaker | May 3-4, 2025 | |
| • Caltech, Pasadena, CA | May 5-6, 2025 | |
| • SERMON 2025 Savannah, GA, invited plenary speaker | Apr. 12-13, 2025 | |
| • AMS Spring Eastern Sectional Hartford - UConn, AMS Special Session invited speaker | Apr. 5-6, 2025 | |
| • Michigan Technological University, invited seminar speaker | March 27, 2025 | |
| • [professional travel] | March 5-9, 2025 | |
| • American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI | Feb. 20-23, 2025 | |
| • Joint Mathematics Meetings Seattle, AMS Special Session invited speaker | Jan. 8-11, 2025 | |
| • CHI Think Tank, Amherst College, panelist | Nov. 20, 2024 | |
| • Oregon State U., invited seminar speaker | Nov. 5, 2024 | |
| • Building Bridges: EU/US Automorphic Forms School/Workshop, CIRM Luminy, Marseille, France, invited (graduate/postdoc) mini-course instructor, on harmonic Maass forms | Sept. 1-7, 2024 | |
| • Vassar College, invited colloquium speaker | TBD | |
| 2023-2024 | ||
| • The Legacy of Ramanujan (Andrews/Berndt 85th birthdays conference) Penn State University, invited plenary speaker | June 6-9, 2024 | |
| • Vistas in Number Theory, Brin Mathematics Research Center, invited speaker | June 2024 (tentative) | |
| • Int'l Conference on L-Functions and Automorphic Forms Vanderbilt University, invited speaker | May 13-16, 2024 (tentative) | |
| • Wesleyan University, invited colloquium speaker | March 28, 2024 | • International Conference on modular forms and q-series University of Cologne, Germany, invited speaker | March 11-15, 2024 |
| • Clifford Lectures 2024, Tulane, invited plenary speaker | Feb. 22-25, 2024 | |
| • Joint Mathematics Meetings San Francisco, special session organizer | Jan. 3-6, 2024 | |
| • Assoc. for Women in Math. Research Symposium Atlanta, GA, invited speaker | Sep. 30 - Oct. 2, 2023 | |
| • MAA Mathfest Tampa, FL | Aug 3-6, 2023 | |
| • Northeast REU Minisymposium UMass-Amherst | Jul. 27, 2023 | |
| 2022-2023 | ||
| • New Connections Between Physics and Number Theory Pollica, Italy, invited speaker | June 5-16, 2023 | |
| • [host to visitor at Amherst] | March 26-29, 2023 | |
| •
Joint Mathematics Meetings Boston, invited special session speaker (2 talks) + PAMS editorial board panelist |
Jan. 4-7, 2023 | |
| • [host to research visitor at Amherst] | week of Dec. 12 2022 | |
| • Dresden Lectures Swarthmore College, invited lectures | week of Oct. 24 2022 | |
| • Graduate student seminar Northeastern University, invited speaker | Oct. 8, 2022 | |
| • Oliver Lecturer & Class of 1960 Speaker Williams College, invited colloquium | Sept. 12-14, 2022 | |
| • College of the Holy Cross | Aug. 9-12, 2022 | |
| • Max Planck Institute for Mathematics Bonn, Germany, Visiting Scientist | June 27 - July 31, 2022 | |
| • Ramanujan and Euler | July 18-22, 2022 | |
| • University of Virginia REU Colloquium invited speaker | July 14, 2022 | |
| • Spec(Q) Fields Institute, Toronto, invited plenary speaker | July 6-8, 2022 | |
| 2021-2022 | ||
| • 100 Years of Mock Theta Functions Vanderbilt U., invited speaker | May 22-23, 2022 | |
| • AMS Sectional Meeting U. Denver (virtual), special session speaker | May 15-16, 2022 | |
| • Joint Mathematics Meetings Seattle (virtual), 3 talks (1 canceled due to pandemic) + Spectra panelist | Apr. 6-9, 2022 | |
| • Amherst College Queer Resource Center, faculty-staff panelist | April 13, 2022 | |
| • LGBTQ+ Math Day Fields Institute (virtual), invited keynote speaker | Nov. 18, 2021 | |
| • MAA Mathfest (virtual) | Aug. 4-7, 2021 | |
| • Northeast REU Minisymposium (virtual), session chair | Jul. 28-29, 2021 | |
| • Subbarao Centenary Symposium IISER, India (virtual), invited speaker | July 12-16, 2021 | |
| • QTMC 2021 Fields Institute, Toronto (virtual), session moderator | June 24-25, 2021 | |
| 2020-2021 | ||
| • New connections in number theory and physics Isaac Newton Institute Cambridge, England (virtual program) invited speaker |
May 24-28, 2021 | |
| • TU-Darmstadt, Germany (Zoom) seminar speaker | April 27, 2021 | |
| • Lunch in the Time of Covid (Zoom) invited panelist | April 7, 2021 | |
| • City College of New York (Zoom) colloquium speaker | March 2, 2021 | |
| • 2021 Joint Mathematics Meetings (virtual program),
AMS Book Authors panelist | January 6-9, 2021 | |
| • Vanderbilt Number Theory Seminar (Zoom), speaker | December 8, 2020 | |
| • UCLA Number Theory Seminar (Zoom), speaker | December 7, 2020 | |
| • Heilbronn Number Theory Seminar, Bristol, UK (Zoom), speaker | December 2, 2020 | |
| • St. Petersburg State NT Seminar, Russia (Zoom), speaker | December 1, 2020 | |
| • KITP Modularity in Quantum Systems (Zoom) conference speaker | October 27, 2020 | |
| • Central Univ. of Himachal Pradesh, India (Zoom), conference speaker (for undergrads.) | September 15, 2020 | |
| • Women in Numbers 5, BIRS Banff, Canada, project leader | virtual program 2020-21 | |
| • Math. Forschungsinsitut Oberwolfach, Germany | Aug. 30 - Sep. 5, 2020** |
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| *travel or event pending due to Covid-19 | ||
| 2019-2020 | ||
| • Northeast REU Minisymposium | July 30, 2020 | |
| • MAA Mathfest, Philadelphia | July 29 - Aug. 1, 2020** | |
| • Dartmouth College Math Camp, invited speaker, | July 29, 2020 | |
| • 100 Years of Mock Theta Functions, Vanderbilt Univ., speaker | May 18 - 19, 2020** | |
| • Western New England University, PME induction speaker | April 14, 2020** | |
| • AMS Graduate Student Conference, Brown Univ., keynote speaker | April 3, 2020** | |
| **travel or event canceled or postponed due to Covid-19 | ||
| • AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Denver AWM/Spectra panelist, AMS special session speaker, and co-organizer |
January 15 - 18, 2020 | |
| • Fairfield University, colloquium speaker | Nov. 21, 2019 | |
| Fall 2018/Spring 2019 | ||
| Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton | Member & von Neumann Fellow, Spring (2019) | |
| sabbatical | ||
| Arithmetic, geometry, modular forms: Bill Duke conference, ETH Zurich (speaker) |
June 17-21, (2019) | |
| The Legacy of Ramanujan: Berndt's 80th Birthday Conference (plenary speaker) | June 6-9, (2019) | |
| McGill University (colloquium) | May 9-10, (2019) | |
| University of Pennsylvania (seminar speaker) | April 8, (2019) | |
| AMS Western Sectional Meeting, U. Hawaii Manoa (co-organizer + speaker) | March 22-24, (2019) | |
| Hawaii Number Theory (HINT) (speaker) | March 18-21, (2019) | |
| Modularity and 3-manifolds, ICERM (Brown) (speaker) | March 8-10, (2019) | |
| Bryn Mawr & Haverford Colleges (colloquium speaker) | February 18-19, (2019) | |
| IAS Princeton (Member seminar speaker) | February 11, (2019) | |
| MAA Invited Address, AMS-MAA Joint Math. Meetings, Baltimore plenary speaker, talk recording avail. here | January 16-19, (2019) | |
| Rice University (colloquium speaker) | November 15, (2018) | |
| Simons Foundation, Annual MPS Meeting, NYC | October 18-19, (2018) | |
| Royal Society London (invited speaker) | October 15-16, (2018) | |
| Fall 2017/Spring 2018 | ||
| CTNT 2018 , School & Conference, UConn (speaker) | May 31, (2018) | |
| 32nd Automorphic Forms Workshop (co-organizer) | March 19-22, (2018) | |
| Modular Forms and Quantum Knot Invariants, BIRS Banff, Canada (speaker) | March 11-16, (2018) | |
| Boston College (seminar speaker) | Feb 15, (2018) | |
| AMS-MAA Joint Math. Meetings, San Diego (special session speaker) | January 10-13, (2018) | |
| Fall 2016/Spring 2017 | ||
| Women in Numbers 4, BIRS Banff, Canada (project leader) | Aug 13-18, (2017) | |
| MAA Mathfest, Chicago | July 26-29, (2017) | |
| Eastern Sectional AMS Mtg., CUNY Hunter College (closing speaker) | May 6-7, (2017) | |
| College of the Holy Cross (PME undergrad/faculty colloquium) | May 4, (2017) | |
| Boston University (seminar speaker) | May 1, (2017) | |
| Brown University (seminar speaker) | Feb 27, (2017) | |
| AMS-MAA Joint Math. Meetings, Atlanta | January 7-11, (2017) | |
| CTNT 2016 School & Conference, UConn (co-organizer) | Aug 7-14, (2016) | |
| Fall 2015/Spring 2016 | ||
| Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton | Member & von Neumann Fellow, Spring (2016) | |
| sabbatical | ||
| Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany | visiting researcher, Fall (2015) | |
| sabbatical | ||
| Bucknell University (Distinguished Visitor) | April 17-20, (2016) | |
| Penn State University (seminar speaker) | April 21, (2016) | |
| Gainesville Number Theory Conference (speaker) | March 17-21, (2016) | |
| IAS Princeton (member seminar speaker) | February 22, (2016) | |
| Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany (seminar speaker) | December 16, (2015) | |
| TU Darmstadt, Germany (seminar speaker) | December 15, (2015) | |
| Heidelberg University, Germany (colloquium speaker) | December 3, (2015) | |
| University College, Dublin (seminar speaker) | November 16, (2015) | |
| SUNY Albany (colloquium speaker) | September 18, (2015) | |
| Illinois Number Theory Conference (speaker) | Aug 14-15, (2015) | |
| MAA Mathfest, Washington D.C. | Aug 5-8, (2015) | |
| 3rd Northeast Mathematics REU Mini-Symposium, UConn | July 28, (2015) | |
| AIM SQuaREs Workshop, San Jose, CA | July 13-17, (2015) | |
| Fall 2014/Spring 2015 | ||
| University of Cologne, Germany | May 30-June 13, (2015) | |
| Automorphic Forms: Advances & Applications, CIRM Luminy, France | May 25-29, (2015) | |
| Temple University(colloquium speaker) | April 13, (2015) | |
| Assoc. Women in Math. Research Symposium, UMD (speaker) | April 11-12, (2015) | |
| TORAS, Oklahoma University (keynote speaker) | March 28-29, (2015) | |
| Amherst College Queer Resource Center (moderated discussion) | April 7, (2015) | |
| UMass-Amherst (geometry seminar speaker) | March 13, (2015) | |
| Tulane University (colloquium speaker) | January 15, (2015) | |
| AMS-MAA Joint Math. Meetings, San Antonio (special session speaker) | January 10-13, (2015) | |
| Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern (colloquium speaker) | November 13, (2014) | |
| MIT Women in Math | November 13, (2014) | |
| Amherst College Center for Women and Gender(moderated discussion) | October 26, (2014) | |
| UC Irvine, Southern California Number Theory Day (speaker) | October 18, (2014) | |
| Smith College, Center for Women in Math (undergraduate lecture) | October 2, (2014) | |
| Five College Number Theory Seminar (speaker) | September 16, (2014) | |
| MAA Mathfest, Portland, OR | August 6-9, (2014) | |
| REU mini-conference at Yale (co-organizer) | July 25, (2014) | |
| Fall 2013/Spring 2014 | ||
| Wesleyan University | May 1, (2014) | |
| Yale Undergraduate Math Society (YUMS) (lecture for students) | April 24, (2014) | |
| Texas A&M University | April 15, (2014) | |
| Applications of Automorphic Forms Conference, LSU | April 12-15, (2014) | |
| Yale Junior Colloquium | April 4, (2014) | |
| Amherst College | Jan. 27-28, (2014) | |
| AMS-MAA Joint Math. Meetings, Baltimore | Jan. 17-19, (2014) | |
| Math Mornings at Yale (public lecture) | Nov. 17, (2013) | |
| Johns Hopkins University | Nov. 11-13, (2013) | |
| Johns Hopkins University | Oct. 28-29, (2013) | |
| AMS Eastern Sectional, Temple University, M. Knopp special session | Oct. 12-13, (2013) | |
| Mock Modular Forms, Moonshine, and String Theory, Simons Center | Aug. 26-30, (2013) | |
| Spring/Summer 2013 | ||
| Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany | visiting researcher, Spring (2013) | |
| sabbatical | ||
| Mount Holyoke College, Conference: New Directions for REUs | June 21, (2013) | |
| Heidelberg University, Germany (seminar) | May 8, (2013) | |
| Université de Nice, France (seminar) | April 25-26, (2013) | |
| University College Dublin, Ireland (seminar) | April 11-12, (2013) | |
| University of Cologne, Germany (seminar) | April 9, (2013) | |
| Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany (oberseminar) | April 4, (2013) | |
| Arizona Winter School (course assistant) | March 9-13, (2013) | |
| Brigham Young University (colloquium) | January 15-18, (2013) | |
| Fall 2012 | ||
| Emory University | visiting researcher, Fall (2012) sabbatical |
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| seminar, September 19, (2012) | ||
| University of Wisconsin | December 14, (2012) | |
| Center for Women in Mathematics, Smith College | November 15, (2012) | |
| Ramanujan 125, University of Florida | November 5-7, (2012) | |
| AMS Fall Sectional Meeting, University of Arizona | October 27-28, (2012) | |
| *AMS special session co-organizer | ||
| University of Illinois NT Conference & Seminar | October 11-12, (2012) | |
| Spring/Summer 2012 | ||
| RWTH Aachen University, Germany: conference on automorphic forms | July 30 - Aug. 11, (2012) | |
| Institut Henri Poincare, Paris | May 28 - Jun. 1, (2012) | |
| University of Cologne, Germany | May 13 - 27, (2012) | |
| Yale Science and Engineering Forum | April 26, (2012) | |
| Northeastern University | April 23, (2012) | |
| University of Connecticut, Storrs | April 11, (2012) | |
| UConn, Preparing Future Faculty | April 6, (2012) | |
| Naugatuck Valley CC, Women in Science Seminar | Mar. 28, (2012) | |
| Krupp symposium, University of Cologne | Feb. 27 - Mar. 1, (2012) | |
| Yale NT seminar | Feb. 13, (2012) | |
| AMS-MAA Joint Math. Meetings, Boston | January 4-7, (2012) | |
| Fall 2011 | ||
| Emory University | Dec. 6, (2011) | |
| University of Cologne, Germany | Nov. 19 - 26, (2011) | |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Nov. 1, (2011) | |
| Quebec-Maine Number Theory Conference | Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, (2011) | |
| Yale Math Club Talk | September 14, (2011) | |
| CUNY conference on symmetric groups | September 8-9, (2011) | |
| Spring 2011 | ||
| AIM Workshop on Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, Palo Alto, CA | June 13 - 17, (2011) | |
| University College Dublin | May 8 - May 14, (2011) | |
| University of Cologne, Germany | April 27 - May 7, (2011) | |
| Northwestern University | April 25, (2011) | |
| AMS Eastern Spring Sectional Meeting (Holy Cross) | April 9-10, (2011) | |
| Trieste, Italy workshop on mock modular forms | March, (2011) | |
| Public Lecture: Branford Public Library, CT | March 5, (2011) | |
| Boston College/M.I.T. | February 8, (2011) | |
| Emory University | January 21-23, (2011) | |
| AMS-MAA Joint Math. Meetings, New Orleans | January 6-9, (2011) | |
| *MAA special session speaker | ||
| Fall 2010 | ||
| AMS-Soc. de Mat. de Chile Joint Meetings, Pucon, Chile | December 15-18, (2010) | |
| SUNY Stony Brook | December 8, (2010) | |
| CUNY Graduate Center | December 3, (2010) | |
| University of Cologne, Germany | November 19-28, (2010) | |
| M.I.T. (Seminar) | October 29, (2010) | |
| M.I.T. (Women in Mathematics Lecture) | October 27, (2010) | |
| Wesleyan University | October 7, (2010) | |
| Yale Univeristy | September 30, (2010) | |
| Fall/Spring 2009-10 | ||
| 24th Automorphic Forms Workshop, University of Hawaii | March 22-26, (2010) | |
| AIM workshop on mock modular forms, Palo Alto, CA | March 8-12, (2010) | |
| Yale University | February, (2010) | |
| University of Texas, Austin | January, (2010) | |
| University of Pittsburgh | January, (2010) | |
| AMS-MAA Joint Math. Meetings, San Francisco | January 13-16, (2010) | |
| Rutgers University | December, (2009) | |
| KMS-AMS winter meeting, Seoul, Korea | December 15-20, (2009) | |
| POSTECH workshop, Pohang, Korea | December 14, (2009) | |
| Rice Univeristy | November, (2009) | |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | September 3, (2009) | |
| Fall/Spring 2008-09 | ||
| MPIM Bonn, Germany, Int'l conference | May 25-29, (2009) | |
| Talk for the UW Madison Undergraduate Math Club | April 27, (2009) | |
| 1047th Meeting of the AMS (held at UIUC) | March 27-29, (2009) | |
| University of Florida | March 11-15, (2009) | |
| AMS-MAA Joint Math. Meetings, Washington DC | January 5-8, (2009) | |
| *AMS special session co-organizer | ||
| Palmetto Number Theory Series (held at USC) | December 13-14, (2008) | |
| Combinatory Analysis 2008 (G. Andrews Birthday conference) | December 5-7, (2008) | |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | November 13, (2008) | |
| Spring 2008 | ||
| University of Hawaii, Workshop on Automorphic Forms | May 20-25 | |
| University of Florida, Number Theory Conference | March 13-16 | |
| University College Dublin | February 20 | |
| AMS-MAA Joint Math. Meetings, San Diego | January 6-10 | |
| Fall 2007 | ||
| Kumbakonam, India (SASTRA) 2007 | December 18-22 | |
| University of South Carolina | November 15 | |
| Stanford University | November 8 | |
| The Fields Institute, Toronto | November 3 - 4 | |
| McMaster University, Canada | November 1 | |
| University of Illinois, U-C | October 25 | |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | October 4 |