Fall 2026 Horizons Lectures

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Oct 30, 2026
12:15 - 1 pm
Fine Hall Common Room
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The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce Professor Gigliola Staffilani of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to give the Fall 2026 Horizons Lectures series. 

Gigliola Staffilani is the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Mathematics at MIT since 2007. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.  She had faculty appointments at Stanford, Princeton and Brown University  before joining  MIT in 2002. Staffilani is an analyst, with a concentration on dispersive nonlinear PDEs. In 2013 Staffilani became a fellow of the AMS, and in 2014 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017 she received a Guggenheim fellowship and a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics. In 2018 she received the MIT Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising and in 2021 she was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Horizons Seminar

A Conversation with Gigliola Staffilani —  Is there a formula for our personal success?

Moderator: Alison Tatsuoka