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....
2023-11-30 - The American Mathematical Society (AMS) recently announced the winners of the 2024 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research. Five people were awarded the prestigious prize; among them was University of Illinois professor József Balogh. Balogh, along with his co-authors Robert Morris (Instituto de Matemática...
2023-11-30 - The Illinois Geometry Lab (IGL), operated by the Department of Mathematics at UIUC, offers some of the most sought-after experiences to math majors at Illinois, providing opportunities for students to work directly with faculty members on mathematics research projects. But its name has been a source of confusion for the past several years, as it suggests a more limited scope of offerings than...
2023-11-28 - In late October, students gathered to compete in two local math contests at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: the Paul Erdős Mock Putnam Exam and the Paul Erdős Freshman Math Contest. The Department of Mathematics has sponsored local contests in mathematics for decades. In 2023, each of these contests were renamed in honor of Hungarian mathematician...- 2023-11-10 - The Bateman Prize in Number Theory is awarded to a graduate student in recognition of outstanding research in number theory. The prize was initiated in 1999 by the Department of Mathematics number theory group. Illinois mathematics graduate students Di Liu and Qihang Sun have been named joint recipients of the 2024 Bateman Prize in Number Theory. Di Liu...
2023-09-14 - 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 of the Illinois Geometry Lab this...
2023-09-05 - 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 Center...
2023-09-05 - 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...
2023-07-25 - 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,...
2023-07-20 - 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 read. There was always a professor who would take the time to talk to you,” he recalls. Altgeld’s...
2023-06-21 - 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 Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholar. The LEAP Award is granted to...
2023-04-19 - 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. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by Congress in...