The Department of Mathematics at Illinois will roll out three new courses this fall, to provide support to students who need additional preparation to transition to higher education mathematics coursework. The courses will provide “on-ramp” instruction to students, to address educational losses resulting from the pandemic and to increase access to learning opportunities for historically...
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.
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In August, the Department of Mathematics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign welcomed eight new tenure-stream faculty members representing wide breadth of research topics: Amanda Young, assistant professor, uses analytical tools to investigate the spectral and dynamical properties of quantum lattice systems. Young was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munich...
When you’re as old as Altgeld Hall, you deserve a nice cleansing scrub. The stony skin of the building dates to as far back as 1896, after all, and a lot of history, and other gunk, has built up on the stone. Even a U of I student’s thesis from more than 50 years ago notes the coloration change. Muriel Schienman (MA, '69; PhD, '81; art history), in her 1969 master’s thesis, “Altgeld Hall, The...
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- Several department- and college-level leadership changes took place at the beginning of the Fall 2023 semester. Illinois Geometry Lab welcomes new leadership team Karen Mortensen, associate director of graduate studies in the Department of Mathematics, took the helm as director...
- When Matthew Deady (BS, ‘75, mathematics and physics; MS, ‘77, mathematics) remembers his time at the University of Illinois, Altgeld Hall stands out as a friendly, inviting place. “Anything I was interested in, someone would tell me, this is who you talk to about what course to take or book to...
- The College of LAS has awarded more than 25 professors with named scholar positions for their contributions to education and research at the University of Illinois. Three mathematics faculty members received named scholar positions in 2023. Felix Leditzky has been named a Lincoln...
- 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...
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Alumni Spotlight: Alexander Dunn helps solve centuries-long mathematical mystery
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...