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Professor Keith Conrad featured in Pi day article on Live Science
UConn Math Department hosts inaugural Graduate Research Forum
The Mathematical Science Research Collaboratory (MSRC) and the Graduate Program of the Department of Mathematics jointly launched a series of Graduate Research Forums, where graduate student speakers give talks to the general audience of mathematical faculty and students. The inaugural Forum was held on January 25, 2025 and attracted a large attendance of graduate students and faculty.
UConn Math Department hosts Eastern Regional MATHCOUNTS competition
Last Sunday, Feb. 23rd, our department hosted an Eastern Regional MATHCOUNTS competition. This is an official part of the National MATHCOUNTS competition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathcounts). We have hosted the Eastern Connecticut Regional competition for several years now, and it has been supported by the Department of Mathematics and UConn’s CLAS. This year we had around 150 middle school students (mathletes) registered to compete from 15 middle schools. In addition to the competition itself, the day featured a welcome message from the CLAS Dean, an engaging presentation by Alexandra Hain (Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, https://cee.engr.uconn.edu/people/hain-alexandra), and a trivia competition organized by our PhD students. The event would not be possible without many volunteers including
Jake Brown,
Andrew DeLapo,
Chinmay Dharmendra,
Caylee Spivey
Alec Wendland,
Keith Conrad,
Griff Elder,
Mihai Fulger,
Nicole Massarelli,
Ian Hoffman, and
members of UConn Alpha Phi Omega, and UConn Math office members.
Paper co-authored by Professor Damin Wu wins 2025 Frontiers of Science Award
The paper “Negative holomorphic curvature and positive canonical bundle,” by Damin Wu and Shing-Tung Yau, which was published in Inventiones Mathematicae, has been selected by the International Congress of Basic Science, as a recipient of the 2025 Frontiers of Science Award.
Tomastik Prize launched by the AMS
Professor Lan-Hsuan Huang Awarded Simons Fellowship
Professor Lan-Hsuan Huanghas been awarded a prestigious Simons Fellowship in 2025 by the Simons Foundation.
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!
The UConn Math Department will host 2025 Spring Eastern AMS Sectional Meeting
Professor Guozhen Lu elected to CT Academy of the Arts and Sciences
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.