• 2023-02-14 - URBANA—The Department of Mathematics at Illinois has named two recipients for the 2023 Bateman Prize in Number Theory: Robert Dicks and Maria Siskaki. The Bateman Prize is awarded to a graduate students in recognition of outstanding research in number theory. The prize was initiated in 1999 by the department’s number theory group, who chooses recipients for the award each year. Maria...
  • 2023-01-30 - The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has named Illinois mathematics alumnus Freeman A. Hrabowski (MA, ’71, mathematics; PhD, '75, education; honorary PhD, '04, education) the 2023 recipient of the Public Welfare Medal. According to a press release from NAS, the medal—which recognizes extraordinary...
  • 2023-01-23 - The Department of Mathematics is saddened to learn that Dr. Padmini Joshi (PhD '69) passed away on January 2, 2023, at the age of 95.  Joshi first came to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1962, to fill a half-time teaching assistantship. After receiving her doctorate from Illinois in 1969, Joshi left to teach at Ball State University. In 2021,...
  • 2022-12-20 - Illinois Geometry Lab students host poster session in Altgeld Hall On December 8, 2022, members of the Illinois Geometry Lab (IGL) presented results of their Fall 2022 projects in 239 Altgeld Hall.  Among the seven projects hosted this fall,...
  • 2022-12-20 - Holmes receives LAS Academic Professional Award Amber Holmes, who serves as student services coordinator for NetMath, has been named one of three recipients of the 2022-2023 LAS Academic Professional Award. The LAS Academic Professional Award was established in 1993 to identify and honor academic professionals who have made outstanding contributions to the...
  • 2022-12-12 - People who knew Reed Oei often described him as a star.  “Reed was the most determined person I ever met,” said Christopher Settles, a frequent collaborator of Reed’s. Phillipp Hieronymi, former director of the Illinois Geometry Lab, described Reed as “a brilliant and exceptional student and researcher.” Yet somehow, simply calling Reed a star feels like a cosmic understatement. From the...
  • 2022-12-05 - Jennifer McNeilly, Director of the Math Merit Program, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Paula Adametz Hays Staff Award. The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (LAS) is responsible for selecting the recipient of the Paula...
  • 2022-12-05 - Illinois mathematics faculty members, in partnership with Purdue faculty, successfully hosted the QLA Meets QIT II workshop in Chicago last month. This event was the second rendition of a workshop which first ran in 2019 at Purdue University. The goal of the workshop is to bridge the fields of quantitative linear algebra, and quantum information theory. This year’s focus was on current trends in...
  • 2022-12-05 - The Department of Mathematics is hosting a series of special colloquia in mathematical biology this month. Polly Yu (Harvard University) studies dynamical systems arising from network interactions, typically deterministic models for biochemical kinetics. On Wednesday, December 7, she’ll be talking with the Department of Mathematics about interaction networks...
  • 2022-11-14 - April Hoffmeister, senior lecturer in mathematics, has been recognized once again for her excellence in teaching. As this year’s Illinois Council of Teachers in Mathematics awards ceremony, held October 29, Hoffmeister was awarded the Excellence in Post-Secondary Mathematics Teaching Award. According to ICTM’s website, the Excellence in Post-...
  • 2022-11-11 - Professor Jozsef Balogh has been selected for the 2023 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Only thirty-nine mathematicians across the United States were awarded this honor this year. According to the AMS website, “the Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement,...
  • 2022-10-13 - Mathematics professor Richard Sowers is part of a team that recently developed a new method for identifying symptoms of Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis, using a treadmill, digital cameras, and a machine learning algorithm to capture gait changes and abnormalities that are associated with these conditions. The results of this research, “A vision-based framework for predicting multiple...
  • 2022-09-19 - QLA Meets QIT II, Workshop November 3–5, 2022 Illini Center, Chicago Over many decades various mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, and engineers have made amazing connections and links between quantitative linear algebra (QLA) and quantum information theory (QIT). Quantitative linear algebra lies at the intersection of topics such as discrepancy theory, spectral...
  • 2022-09-16 - Traditionally, academic research communities are built around departments within universities, requiring participants to be in physical proximity. However, modern telecommunications allow people to interact productively in new ways, and online communities will play a growing role in research in the 21st century. The National Science Foundation recently awarded a Research Training Group (RTG)...
  • 2022-09-08 - After an 11-year absence because of production delays that have now been wiped out, the Illinois Journal of Mathematics has been re-accepted into Clarivate’s Emerging Sources Citation Index, part of the Web of Science. The indexed articles for IJM will...