Damir Dzhafarov spotlighted by the Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Science
March 28, 2018
Lan-Hsuan Huang Huang and Damin Wu receive appointments at IAS; Prof. Huang awarded Simons and von Neumann Fellowships
March 25, 2018
Professors Lan-Hsuan Huang and Damin Wu have been appointed as members of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton during the academic year 2018-2019. The membership will provide support for Professors Huang and Wu to spend a sabbatical year participating in the IAS special year program on Variational Methods in Geometry.
Professor Huang’s tenure at IAS will be supported by a von Neumann Fellowship. The highly selective von Neumann fellowship program supports early-career mathematicians as members at IAS for a year.
In addition, Professor Huang is one of the 2018 Simons Fellows in Mathematics. The Simons fellowship will provide additional sabbatical funding to support Professor Huang’s research proposal “Geometry of General Relativity,” allowing her to extend her sabbatical leave to the full academic year 2018-2019.
“Very Special Snowflakes” — the work of Vyron Vellis (Assistant Research Professor in Math) featured in UConn Today
March 7, 2018
Talitha M. Washington, first African American to receive math PhD from UConn, writes about journey from student to math professor, in the AMS Notices
February 16, 2018
Major Exploration Week
February 10, 2018
For most days of the week February 12-16, the math department will have events that are open to students deciding on a major, in order to help them determine if math would be a good fit. These include courses that are open to visitors and panel discussions or presentations by faculty.
February 13th
12:30-1:45: Two courses open to visitors are Math 2110 – Multivariable Calculus in Arjona 105 and Math 2710 – Transition to Advanced Mathematics in Monteith 321.
3:00-4:00: A faculty panel discussion What is math research? in Monteith 313.
February 14th
11:15-12:05: A course open to visitors is Math 3265 – Applied Mathematical Logic in Monteith 225.
February 15th
12:30-1:45: A course open to visitors is Math 3094 – Mathematics of Encryption in Monteith 314.
4:00-5:00: A faculty panel discussion Exploring UConn math degrees in Monteith 313.
February 16th
2:00-3:00 PM: A faculty presentation Math: What is it good for? in Monteith 226.
Neag School of Education, Office of the Provost, and the Department of Mathematics Present: Rachel Gutiérrez on “Rehumanizing Mathematics: Should That Be Our Goal?”
February 6, 2018
Graduate student designs tool to raise colorblindness awareness
January 29, 2018
David Nichols, a graduate student in mathematics studying mathematical logic, has published a web application that shows users whether a given color palette is accessible to viewers who are colorblind. It uses simulations of colorblindness to allow instructors with normal color vision to see in low-dimensional color spaces and choose the colors they use to communicate to their students accordingly.
You can try out the tool yourself.
Professor Baudoin to deliver lecture series at Tata Institute
January 21, 2018
Professor Fabrice Baudoin has been invited to give a series of lectures on Geometric inequalities on sub-Riemannian manifolds at the Tata Institute
Students presenting at MAA Student Poster Session
January 11, 2018
Raji Majumdar and Anthony Sisti, both majors in mathematics, will be presenting posters Applications of Multiplicative LLN and CLT for Random Matrices and Black-Scholes using the Central Limit Theorem on Friday, January 12 at the MAA Student Poster Session, and both of them will be giving talks on Saturday, January 13 at the AMS Contributed Paper Session on Research in Applied Mathematics by Undergraduate and Post-Baccalaureate Students. You can find their posters here.
Department invites applications for positions starting Fall 2018
December 17, 2017