Announcements

Congratulations to Winners of Fall 2018 Integration Bee

October 28, 2018

On October 25th, 2018 the UConn graduate student chapter of the AMS held their Second Annual Integration Bee, where undergraduates of varying levels of mathematical background came together to test their knowledge of integrals. Students took turns in groups of six, going to the blackboard to compute various integrals on the spot. In each round […]

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News & Achievements

In Memoriam: Eugene Spiegel

February 8, 2019

We are saddened to report that our former colleague Eugene Spiegel passed away earlier this week. Gene obtained his PhD from MIT in 1965. After a post-doc at Caltech he joined UConn in September 1967 as an Assistant Professor. Gene supervised six doctoral dissertations at UConn and, along with some other colleagues, built up the […]

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UConn Hosting MathCounts Competition

February 6, 2019

On Saturday, February 9, the Department of Mathematics will host the Eastern Chapter of the MathCounts competition. For many years this competition took place at the Coast Guard Academy, but the recent government shutdown made it impossible. UConn came to rescue and hope to host up to 230 mathletes this week. One of the teams […]

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Students present at 2018 Spring Frontiers Exhibition

April 15, 2018

Three undergraduate students presented posters on their math research during the 2018 Spring Frontiers Exhibition sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR). Sailesh Simhadri presented his SURF-funded project on random processes associated to linear recurrences.   Raji Majumdar and Anthony Sisti presented their research from last summer on applications of Central Limit Theorems to […]

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Upcoming Events

  1. Feb 18 PDE and Differential Geometry Seminar
    Title TBA
    Speaker TBA.    2:30pm
  2. Feb 20 Algebra Seminar
    Title TBA
    Speaker TBA    11:15am
  3. Feb 20 Math Club
    Integrality of Binomial Coefficients
    Emily Gunawan (UConn)    5:45pm
  4. Feb 21 Mathematics Colloquium
    Nice Sets of Points on the Sphere (with hints of Number Theory and Graph Theory)
    Stefan Steinerberger (Yale University)    4:00pm
  5. Feb 22 S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
    "What is... An Elliptic Curve?" From Bitcoin to Self-Driving Vehicles
    Emma Previato    12:20pm