Professor Lan-Hsuan Huang Awarded Simons Fellowship

February 18, 2025

Professor Lan-Hsuan Huanghas been awarded a prestigious Simons Fellowship in 2025 by the Simons Foundation.

Professor Lan-Hsuan Huang, portrait

According to the foundation website, these prestigious awards are based on the applicant’s scientific accomplishments in the five-year period preceding the application and on the potential scientific impact of the work to be done during the leave period.
Professor Huang joins a select group of individuals to be awarded a second Simons Fellowship, having won it previously in 2018.

Associate Professor Ling Xiao awarded the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize by the AWM

The Association for Women in Mathematics has awarded our colleague Ling Xiao  the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize for 2025-2026. In an email, the AWM stated:
The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the 2025-2026 Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize has been awarded to Ling Xiao, Associate Professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut. Xiao has been selected to receive the Michler Prize for her research accomplishments in geometric analysis and partial differential equations. Professor Xiao will spend an upcoming semester visiting Cornell.

Congratulations to Ling!

Professor Guozhen Lu elected to CT Academy of the Arts and Sciences

November 19, 2024

Professor Guozhen Lu was elected to the Connecticut Academy of the Arts and Sciences (CAAS) with membership commencing in 2023-2024 academic year. The CAAS was founded in 1799 and is the third-oldest learned society in the United States. Its purpose is the dissemination of scholarly information. For the past 200 years, the Academy has fulfilled this mission through lectures and extensive publications such as Memoirs and Transactions of the Academy that started in 1810. Monthly presentations during the academic year (September-May) provide an opportunity for both the lay person and scholar to hear distinguished speakers discuss current work in the sciences, arts, and humanities.

UConn Mathematics Awarded GAANN Fellowship Grant from US Department of Education

October 8, 2024

The UConn Mathematics Department has been awarded a GAANN grant (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) from the Department of Education. The grant will provide five fellowships per year for three years to graduate students with excellent records who demonstrate financial need and plan to pursue a doctoral degree in mathematics at UConn, a field designated as an area of national need.

Professor Guozhen Lu named Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics

September 13, 2024

Professor Guozhen Lu has been named a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics. The citation for Guozhen says this honor is:

For his sustained support and service to AWM, mentorship of early and mid-career female scientists, and advocacy in the career advancement of talented female mathematicians, including recognition in the form of honors and awards.
Congratulations, Guozhen!
As described on the AWM website, the AWM Fellows Program  recognizes  members who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the support and advancement of women in the mathematical sciences, consistent with the AWM mission: “to create a community in which women and girls can thrive in their mathematical endeavors, and to promote equitable opportunity and treatment of women and others of marginalized genders and gender identities across the mathematical sciences.”
This is the first time a member of the UConn Mathematics Department’s faculty has been named a Fellow of the AWM. Guozhen was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Class of 2023)  earlier this year and is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (Class of 2018).
For more about Guozhen recent appointments see our news section. Please also see  UConn Today.

Professor Guozhen Lu appointed Editor-in-Chief of Forum Mathematicum

September 6, 2024

Guozhen Lu has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Forum Mathematicum, a premier journal in general mathematics.
Dr. Lu is currently also the Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Nonlinear Studies, a major journal in Nonlinear Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and Calculus of Variations, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the de Gruyter flagship book series Studies in Mathematics.
In addition, Dr. Lu has served on the editorial boards of multiple mathematical journals, including the general mathematical journal Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques (also known as Darboux journal founded by Gaston Darboux in 1870), one of the oldest mathematical journals currently still in existence.

Society of Actuaries Center of Actuarial Excellence Award

July 24, 2024

The UConn Mathematics Department‘s Actuarial Science program continues its extraordinary record of recognition and excellence. The Society of Actuaries has awarded the University of Connecticut the Center of Actuarial Excellence designation for another period of five years, up to June 30, 2029. Our Actuarial Science program benefits from its strong ties with the School of Business and strong support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.