2019-08-26 - Few buildings on campus are as historic, or distinctive, as Altgeld Hall. Like the nearby Alma Mater statue, the Altgeld “castle” is an iconic part of the campus and the backdrop for countless graduation photos. Plans to renovate the 122-year-old building have been kicking around for at least 13...- 2019-07-22 - Members of the Actuarial Science Club (ASC) at Illinois recently organized the InsureTech and Actuarial Modernization Symposium, an event on campus modeled after the InsureTech Connect conference, a popular industry event in Las Vegas that CEOs and leaders in actuarial science flock to each year...
- 2019-07-22 - Jane Bergman has always held a special spot in her heart for the brilliance of stained glass. That’s why Bergman’s discovery in 2008 that there was once a large, stained glass dome over the library in Altgeld Hall, her very place of work, made such an impact on the university employee. More than...
- 2019-06-17 - Illinois Physics Professor Philip Phillips and Math Professor Gabriele La Nave have theorized a new kind of electromagnetism far beyond anything conceivable in classical electromagnetism today, a conjecture that would upend our current understanding of the physical world, from...
2019-05-15 - Vanessa Rivera-Quiñones, a doctoral student in mathematics, and Tara Stewart Merrill, a doctoral student in the Program in Ecology, Evolution & Conservation Biology come from very different backgrounds, but they are working together at the University of Illinois to better understand disease in...
2019-05-01 - A Chicago design firm will prepare architectural plans for the renovation of Altgeld Hall and the construction of a new building on the site of Illini Hall. The University of Illinois has hired a CannonDesign to begin planning the $100 million Altgeld Hall and Illini Hall project to modernize...
2019-04-17 - As part of establishing its academic and research activities, DPI announced nine recipients of its first round of seed funding awards, including three headed by professors in the College of LAS. These projects represent the types of work that DPI will undertake, seeking solutions to grand...
2019-04-17 - Mathematics faculty member Philipp Hieronymi received the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Philipp places emphasis on active learning and creates a welcoming environment for all students. Students note that his lectures make challenging topics seem easy, with lessons making a...
2019-03-28 - When will workplaces across the United States have an equal split between men and women in their ranks? Twenty years? Maybe 40? According to a mathematical model created by a research assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, the answer to that question in some professions could be...
2019-01-18 - The University of Illinois is moving forward with plans to expand its leadership in the mathematical sciences by constructing a new building west of the Main Quad by 2022 and renovating Altgeld Hall by 2024.
2019-01-08 - Jean Bourgain, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, passed away in Bonheiden, Belgium, on December 22 at the age of 64.
2018-11-20 - Everyone is familiar with knots. There are simple knots, such as those we master when we’re five-year-olds learning to tie our shoelaces. Then there are some not-quite-as-simple knots, such as those sailors use when tying rope. But on Thursday, November 1st, a team of Illinois Geometry Lab (IGL)...
2018-11-12 - What if robots weren’t so, well, robotic? What if they could jimmy and jive just like humans? That is the fundamental idea behind a project involving Yuliy Baryshnikov, a professor in Mathematics and Electrical and Computing Engineering, who seeks to help create a robot whose movements more closely...
2018-08-31 - Plans for a new statewide innovation network to accelerate job creation and economic growth include building a world-class center devoted to the fast-growing field of data science, U of I System officials announced on August 29, 2018. The data science center will be created by replacing the...
2018-07-17 - The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Ken Fine and Rebecca Canary have established an endowment to support semester-long visits of distinguished mathematicians to our department. These mathematicians will be known as the Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Visiting Professor in Mathematics...