‼️ COVID-19 Information

March 11, 2020

UConn continues to monitor information and guidance involving the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) in the U.S. and elsewhere. Your health and safety is UConn’s top priority, and is the guiding principle in our discussions on this topic.

Information specific to our department will be posted here in due course. Please continue to check this page frequently for further updates.

Updates

July 16 2020

Department Safety Plan – Summer 2020

March 18 2020

Important update: UConn’s courses at Storrs, the regional campuses and School of Law will move to online delivery starting March 23 through the remainder of the 2020 spring semester, including final exams. Students will be graded and given credit as they normally would. Additional details will continue to be posted under the Academics link at right.

March 13 2020

A useful compilation of resources about alternative teaching methods, both general and specific to affected colleges and universities across the US, is available here.

UConn’s resources from CETL are available here.

March 12 2020

The Department held an online town hall for its faculty and instructors about online teaching, with a detailed presentation of available options by Dr. Amit Savkar, supported by representatives from CETL and UConn ITS. Preparations are well under way and will be in place after Spring Break. Instructors are making individual decisions about which solutions are best suited to their courses, and will be informing students and TAs later next week about format and method of access. Students are advised to contact their instructors with any questions or concerns ahead of the resumption of instruction on March 23.

March 11 2020

Beginning on Monday, March 23, UConn will move to online course delivery for all classes held at the Storrs campus and all regional campuses. Information from the Math Department about individual courses will be made available as soon as possible.

Links

UConn’s COVID-19 Updates Page

CLAS COVID-19 Updates Page

Updates for Department Members (Login Required)

UConn Renewed As NSF REU Site

February 21, 2020

Professors Luke Rogers and Alexander Teplyaev were recently informed that the National Science Foundation has renewed their Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site grant for an additional three years. The site brings nine students from across the country to participate in a 10 week research program each summer. Projects are run by Luke and Sasha, and by participating faculty Fabrice Baudoin, Masha Gordina and Oleksii Mostovyi. This summer research program has been running since 2007, initially with funding from individual professor’s grants, and since 2013 as a full REU site.

During the program, students work closely with their faculty supervisor and with graduate student mentors on real research problems. They are introduced to a new area, investigate fundamental examples (sometimes by hand and sometimes numerically), try to solve a specific problem, and then present their work in talks and with posters. In many cases they write and publish papers in research journals. Recent projects have been in fractal analysis, mathematical finance, and stochastics. More details about the students’ work can be found at the REU website.

 

Students present their REU work.     Students present their REU work.     Students present their REU work.

 

 

 

 

Students participate in past REU programs. (Click to enlarge.)

Professor Vladimir Pozdnyakov Receives 2020 Chauvenet Prize of the MAA

January 20, 2020

Vladimir Pozdnyakov, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, and the Director of Applied Financial Mathematics Program, is a co-recipient of the 2020 Chauvenet Prize of the Mathematical Association of America.

From the MAA website:

The Chauvenet Prize, consisting of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate, is awarded at the Annual January Meeting of the Association to the author of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. First awarded in 1925, the Prize is named for William Chauvenet, a professor of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy. It was established through a gift in 1925 from J.L. Coolidge, then MAA President. Winners of the Chauvenet Prize are among the most distinguished of mathematical expositors.

Professor Pozdnyakov shares the prize with J. Michael Steele, for their joint article, “Buses, Bullies, and Bijections” in Mathematics Magazine.

For more information about the Chauvenet Prize, including a list of prior recipients, visit the MAA website.