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...
2022-08-03 - Professor Jozsef Balogh, a J. Andrew and Susan Langan Scholar, has been awarded a Focused Research Grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF), jointly with Florian Pfender (University of Colorado Denver) and Bernard Lidicky (Iowa State University). This grant supports collaborative groups employing innovative methods to solve specific, major research challenges in the mathematical sciences....- 2022-07-25 - Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce the 22nd installment of the Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics Day (ALGECOM), a one-day informal meeting of anyone with interests in algebra, geometry, and combinatorics (widely interpreted). Algecom XXII will take place on Saturday, October 22nd. Each talk will be 60 minutes. There will be talks by: Patricia Hersh (University of Oregon...
2022-07-20 - Lauren Laws The realm of social media can be an unpredictable place. Shadowy, anonymous figures can have tremendous influence, especially if they've gradually won followers and have apparent credibility. Their posts can sway the decisions of various groups, including stock traders. Social media posts and tweets help influence stock traders’ decisions to buy or sell parts of...- 2022-07-05 - Every four years, during the International Congress of Mathematicians, the International Mathematical Union awards the highest academic honor in the field of mathematics, the Fields Medal. This year, former Illinois graduate student June Huh—now a professor in mathematics at Princeton University—is among the four recipients of this prestigious award. Huh found his way to mathematics in his...
- 2022-06-24 - Research shows that students, particularly those in STEM fields, perform better when they enjoy their academic environment and feel connected to their community. In other words, students will generally succeed and continue to work toward their goals when they feel a sense of belonging amongst their peers, faculty, and staff. While the university offers many opportunities for students to grow...
- 2022-05-06 - Students involved in undergraduate research had a busy Reading Day on May 5, 2022. At Lincoln Hall, the IRisk Lab hosted final presentations of the research they conducted throughout the semester, and the Illinois Geometry Lab hosted an open house poster session in the Illini Union, inviting all faculty, staff,...