October 29, 2013
Assistant Professor Damir Dzhafarov will deliver a one-hour plenary address at the Association of Symbolic Logic session of the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore. The title of his talk will be New Directions in Reverse Mathematics.
September 11, 2013
The Department of Mathematics is hosting a semester-long program in differential geometry, starting with a lecture series by Rick Schoen (Stanford) during October 2-4.
September 3, 2013
June 6, 2013
Math major Tyler Reese was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Tyler worked under guidance of Luke Rogers, Dan Kelleher and Sasha Teplyaev. He will continue his research in the Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics graduate program at the University of Michigan. For a video of Tyler’s presentation at the 2012 FRONTIERS Poster Exhibit, click here.
April 30, 2013
The Mathematics Department’s Annual Awards Day took place on April 30 at 3:30 PM in IMS 20. The invited address, Math is not a spectator sport, was given by Glen Whitney, the president of the Museum of Mathematics.
March 18, 2013
Amit Savkar received the AAUP Excellence Award in Teaching Innovation for 2013, along with Xinnian Chen (Physiology and Neurobiology).
March 13, 2013
Jim Trimble and Michael Braunstein were interviewed about the UConn Actuarial Science Program on Wili AM 1400 on March 13, 2013. The interview is available online.
February 1, 2013
Professors Bill Abikoff, Rich Bass, and Changfeng Gui are in the inaugural list of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. The complete list is available here.
April 26, 2012
The Thomas McCabe Lecture Series took place April 26th at 2:00 p.m. in IMS 20. The speaker was Ray Sidney, who talked on “Google’s Early Days”.
The Mathematics Department’s Annual Awards Day took place Thursday, April 26 at 3:30 PM in IMS 20. Opening remarks were made by Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and the invited address after the ceremony was given by Michael Zieve (Univ. Michigan) on “Square Values of Polynomials.”