2025-04-25
- The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Professor Alexander Yong will be the first recipient of the George Francis Student Engagement Award. This grant will provide $12,500 in funding to Yong’s Illinois Combinatorics Lab for Undergraduate Experiences (ICLUE).Yong has been with the department since 2008, and his research focuses on combinatorics and...
2025-04-25 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois juniors David Balut, Alyssa Shih, Dmitriy Shvydkoy and Annie Zeng were awarded Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for their potential to contribute to the advancement of research in the natural sciences, mathematics or engineering.As the result of an ongoing partnership with UWorld, a testing tools provider, and...
2025-04-16 - The Department of Mathematics is excited to announce that two of our members have each received two teaching awards. Both PhD Student Maddy Ritter and Professor Nathan Dunfield have received the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Additionally, from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Ritter has received the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Assistants. and Dunfield...
2025-03-31 - The Mathematics Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign would like to congratulate two of our alumni, Michelle Delcourt and Anton Bernshteyn, for being two of 126 scholars who received the 2025 Sloan Fellowships. This prestigious award is granted to the most promising early-career...
2025-02-19 - Assistant Professor Felix Leditzky has been awarded a 5-year Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through their Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. Through this award, NSF has recognized Leditzky as an early-career faculty member with a strong potential to be a role model and leader within mathematics research and education.This...
2025-02-10 - The Department of Mathematics recently earned a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) grant. The three-year, $1 million grant will provide fellowships to several PhD students every year. The first cohort of GAANN Fellows includes: Derya Asaner, Connor Grady, Doron Grossman-Naples, Ryan McConnell, Alex Taylor, and Ken Willyard.The U.S. Department of Education supports GAANN Fellows...
2025-01-29 - The Department of Mathematics is excited to announce that we have three new staff members joining us this Spring 2025 semester. Victoria Prince is our new Associate Director of NetMath, a newly created position that will be assisting Partha Dey, our current Director of NetMath, in expanding the program. Our Undergraduate office also welcomes two new academic advisors, Stacey Albers and David...
2024-12-12 - On November 15, 2024, the Mathematics Library participated in a celebration for the 100th Anniversary of the Main Library building and the dedication of the Shebik Family Reading Room, hosted by the University Library and the University of Illinois Foundation hosted for Library Friends and Foundation Weekend.For the...
2024-12-04 - The Department of Mathematics is excited to introduce new leadership for our graduate program. Traditionally, the graduate program has only had one leadership position, the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS). As we continue to grow our department, this year we have implemented a new position, Director of Graduate Admissions (DGA) which will work closely with the DGS, overseeing the application...
2024-11-19 - On October 4th, 2024, the Mathematics Development Advisory Board convened at Alice Campbell Alumni Center in Urbana, IL for its 15th annual meeting.The MDAB is comprised of several UIUC mathematics alumni who collaborate with LAS advancement officers and special liaisons from the math department. The board advises math leadership on important areas of growth and development such as student...
2024-11-11 - Greg Dobbins (MA, ’73, mathematics) fondly recalls his time studying at the University of Illinois. His memories have led him to support the future of mathematics and other disciplines on campus. Dobbins has pledged $1 million to the Altgeld and Illini Hall Project. His gift is intended...
2024-10-29 - The Department of Mathematics would like to welcome our new faculty members, many of whom have already began teaching for us this Fall semester. Representing a wide range of research interests and experiences, we are excited to see their contributions to the continued growth and development of our department.Ben Castle, assistant professor, is a mathematical logician...
2024-03-25 - URBANA, Ill.—A few years ago, the New York Times asked U.S. teenagers a simple question: “Do you see the point in learning math?” The answer was a resounding “yes,” even from students who proclaimed to detest the subject. Students wrote to the newspaper, expressing the value that...
2024-03-25 - Professors József Balogh and Yuliy Baryshnikov were recently named 2024 Simons Fellows in Mathematics by the Simons Foundation. According to a recent press release from the Simons Foundation, “The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a...
2024-03-14 - In 1991, physicists studying string theory made a strange discovery that shook up the field of mathematics as we knew it. Using some experimental techniques to predict curve counts in six-dimensional space, they achieved a result that indicated a strong relationship between two very different geometric worlds. At first, the result was hard for many mathematicians to take seriously. Up...