In 1996, the Department of Mathematics established awards to recognize the most outstanding undergraduate students in each of the majors offered by the department.
The department is pleased to announce the Most Outstanding Major Award winners for 2023.
Most Outstanding Major in Teaching of Mathematics
Kaitlyn Ho has been named the 2023 recipient of the Most Outstanding Major...
Altgeld HallThe renovation of Altgeld and Illini Halls will create new opportunities for teaching, learning and research.
Research in Combinatorics at IllinoisFaculty at Illinois have been awarded a research training grant by the National Science Foundation for a broad spectrum of combinatorics research. The training grant funds numerous activities in combinatorics, including seminars and visiting lecturers, as well as undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc research.
Graduate Internship ExperienceStudents are encouraged to find internships at companies, national labs, government agencies, and scientific labs on campus.
AWM Graduate Student ChapterAWM encourages women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and it promotes equal opportunity and equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.
Illinois Geometry LabJoin the IGL for undergraduate research and community outreach.
Ada Stelzer, a second-year mathematics PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was recently awarded a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue research in algebra, number theory, and combinatorics. Stelzer, who holds baccalaureate degrees in mathematics and anthropology from Lawrence University, says she is excited and honored to have...
URBANA, Ill.—Research suggests that participation in math and science outreach programs can help reduce students’ anxiety about math, leading to more positive attitudes toward the subject. The Summer Illinois Math (SIM) Camp is a week-long math camp for middle and high school students hosted by the Department of Mathematics at the University...
More Department News
- University of Illinois students Daniel Cudzich, Max Fan, and Aidan Lindsay were awarded Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for their potential to contribute to the advancement of research in the natural sciences, mathematics or engineering. The Barry M...
- URBANA, Ill.— The Department of Mathematics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, through its combinatorics research training group, is pleased to announce the 2023 Schubert Summer School & Conference....
- In the 2007–2008 academic year, the Department of Mathematics established three instructional awards to honor faculty for outstanding efforts in teaching. The department has chosen winners for these awards annually, with only one exception. The height of the pandemic during the 2020-2021 school...
- Dr. Samal Abdikerimova (PhD, mathematics, ’22) and Professor Runhuan Feng have been awarded the (UK) Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' Geoffrey Heywood Prize in 2022 for their paper, “...
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Where this story truly begins is difficult to say. It could be somewhere in the early nineteenth century, when mathematician Ernst Eduard Kummer began experimenting with cubic Gauss sums, leading him to record a conjecture that would remain open for more than 150 years. Or perhaps this story...
Faculty Spotlight: Aldo Manfroi’s Path to Math
Aldo Manfroi is a senior lecturer in mathematics, and he comes highly rated by his students. But his journey to working within the Department of Mathematics at UIUC wasn’t always so clear cut. “I’ve always liked math, ever since I was a kid,” says Manfroi. “I really liked how rigorous it is and...