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.
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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...
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...
2024-03-14 - Hanna Kim, a PhD candidate in mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the 2024 Kuo-Tsai Chen Prize in Mathematics. The Kuo-Tsai Chen Prize, established in 1989, is given in recognition of outstanding scholastic achievement by a graduate student whose research examines relationships between analysis and either geometry or algebra. Kim’s research focuses on...
2024-03-13 - On the last Wednesday of this past February, faculty and staff throughout the college of LAS gathered at the I Hotel and Conference Center to celebrate recent awardees of the LAS staff and academic professional awards. Among the awardees was Emily Lange, who has been employed in the Department of Mathematics since 2019. Lange currently serves as the department’s assistant director of human...
2024-03-13 - Graduate students Shiliang Gao and Qihang Sun have been jointly awarded the 2024 Philippe Tondeur Dissertation Prize, which was established to recognize exceptional students in their final year of the mathematics PhD program at Illinois. Shiliang Gao Shiliang Gao works in...
2024-03-12 - When Meg Edwards, director of corporate and foundation relations for College of LAS Office of Advancement, reached out to alumna Susan Morisato (BS, ‘75; MS, ’77, mathematics) to share her idea of inviting alumni to volunteer in their hometowns, Morisato agreed to help without hesitation. After all,...
2024-03-07 - Jason Liu, a fourth-year graduate student in mathematics, has been awarded the 2024 Wolfgang Haken Prize in Geometry and Topology, in recognition of outstanding research in geometry and topology. Liu researches problems in symplectic geometry. He has been working with mathematics faculty members at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to advance a conjecture regarding Hamiltonian circle...
2024-02-19 - Daniel Berwick-Evans, assistant professor of mathematics, studies connections between quantum field theories, differential geometry, and algebraic topology. He is the lead investigator for the NSF CAREER project “Elliptic cohomology and quantum field theory.”
2023-12-12 - On November 17, 2023, the Mathematics Development Advisory Board (MDAB) convened for its 14th annual meeting at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center in Urbana, IL. The MDAB is comprised of UIUC mathematics alumni, advancement officers from the College of LAS, and special liaisons from the mathematics department....