Professor Ambar Sengupta was elected to The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (CAAS) in March 2025. 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.
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UConn Math hosts reception at JMM 2026
UConn Math, and its research arm, the MSRC, hosted a reception at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2026 in Washington, DC. The reception drew a large and exciting gathering of UConn graduate alumni from over decades, current department members, students, both graduate and undergraduate, as well as other JMM 2026 participants, including this year’s award winners.
UConn Math to host Workshop on PDEs and Applied Math in the Northeast
UConn Math will host a one-day workshop on PDEs and applied mathematics on March 7, 2026. The event will bring together mathematicians from all career stages to explore recent advances in nonlinear PDEs and applied mathematics. Aiming to foster new connections across diverse research groups and strengthen ties within the broader academic community, the workshop will feature both leading experts and emerging scholars.
This workshop is funded by the National Science Foundation and UConn Math’s MSRC.
Damir Dzhafarov is plenary speaker at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2026
Professor Damir Dzhafarov will be giving an Association for Symbolic Logic Invited Address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January 2026 at Washington, DC. His lecture is titled “From Topology to Combinatorics, via Computability Theory.”
Vișan Receives Inaugural Edmond and Nancy Tomastik Prize in Differential Equations
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has set up a prize named after UConn Mathematics Emeritus faculty member Ed Tomastik and his wife Nancy Tomastik. The first recipient is Professor Monica Vișan of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Please see the AMS announcement here.
Ralf Schiffler and George Yin named Fellows of the AMS, Class of 2026
I am absolutely delighted to announce that two (2) of our department faculty members have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, Class of 2026! They are:
In an email from the AMS, Ravi Vakil, President of the AMS, said: “I am honored to congratulate the 2026 Class of AMS Fellows. Their research and service endeavors help ensure the health of the mathematical sciences on a daily basis. AMS Fellows are selected from a substantial pool of accomplished candidates. Their collected achievements highlight the many ways individuals devote themselves to our beautiful and essential subject. I am proud to work alongside them to support and advance our discipline.”
For more, please see the news announcement:
Congratulations, George and Ralf!
Ambar
Professor Gordina featured in 2025 UConn Research Year in Review
Álvaro Lozano-Robledo joins editorial board of The Ramanujan Journal
Professor Álvaro Lozano-Robledo has been appointed to the editorial board of The Ramanujan Journal, a major journal in number theory and related fields.
UConn Math Department Annual Awards Day
The Mathematics Department held its annual Awards Day event on April 25, 2025. This is the day when the department celebrates the achievements of our students. The event featured: the annual initiation ceremony for 12 new Pi Mu Epsilon society inductees; awards recognizing successes in the Putnam Competition and the department’s Stuart Sidney Math Competition; the Cigna Award for Outstanding Actuarial Science Major; the Connie Strange Graduate Community Award; the Louis J. DeLuca Memorial Award; and the Michael Neumann Dissertation Award. The event was held in Monteith Building at the Storrs campus. Congratulations to all the winners!