About

Aims and Scope

Mathematical Discourse publishes research talks in pure mathematics of the highest quality, promoting a culture which values communication as an essential part of the research process.

• An excellent talk enlightens its audience.  We select talks based on their mathematically stimulating nature, not simply based on historical prestige or difficulty of the results presented.   
• Since talks, by nature, do not present all technical details, Mathematical Discourse does not attempt to replace the role of print journals in vetting correctness. We require that the main results presented in a talk are also available in written form.

Content of  talks should be appropriate for a math department colloquium, or a seminar talk in one of the fields listed on the submission page.  Please see the Submit Page for further details on what talks are appropriate for submission.

We encourage individuals and institutions recording talks to consult our suggested best practices for recording.

Review Process

Talks are selected for publication via a single-anonymized peer review process, overseen by the Editorial board and scientific board. 

Reviewers evaluate the talk for its clarity, novelty, and mathematical interest. Correctness of results presented in talks is the responsibility of the author, not the reviewers; see the “aims and scope” above. 

History

Mathematical Discourse was founded by Katie Mann, Akshay Venkatesh, and Rachel Webb in 2026, with initial support from the Institute for Advanced Study and Cornell University.  

Copyright Information

• Mathematical Discourse is an overlay journal: it does not own the copyright to any videos in published issues. 
• All abstracts and tables of contents appearing on this site are the copyright property of the author and are distributed under the CC-BY-NC creative commons license. Unless otherwise noted, the author of these texts is the speaker in the associated talk video.
• All other creative text on this site is the copyright property of Mathematical Discourse.

Privacy Policy

Here are some situations where Mathematical Discourse may collect data about you and how those data may be used.

• If you subscribe for notifications, we will store the information you provide and use it to send you notifications of new journal issues. We will not share this with anyone else or send you any other emails.
• If you submit a talk to Mathematical Discourse, we store the data you submit through EditFlow in a manner consistent with standard practices of print journals.  If your talk is accepted the submitted data will be displayed on the webpage as appropriate.