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  • SPRING 2022 GUIDELINES & RETURNING TO CAMPUS
    2021-12-20 - Increasing positive COVID-19 cases, holiday travel and the emergence of the Omicron variant present real risks, and we want to maximize the safety of our community when you return to campus in a few weeks. Here are the latest guidelines, issued December 20, 2021.
  • In Memoriam: John (Jack) Wetzel
    2021-12-01 - John (Jack) Edwin Wetzel, University of Illinois Mathematics Professor Emeritus, died on November 29, 2021. There will be no services. Born in Hammond, Indiana on March 6, 1932, Wetzel was the son of Miles Thomas Wetzel, an electrical engineer, and Isabel (Bella) Barnhart Wetzel, an elementary school teacher.  He spent his childhood in Goshen, Indiana and graduated from Goshen High School...
  • Virtual IME Congress Hosted by Illinois
    2021-11-16 - This first virtual IME international congress was jointly hosted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Pennsylvania State University, Ulm University, and the University of New South Wales Sydney. It the first major international insurance research conference hosted by the Department of Mathematics and the University of Illinois. The virtual conference was held July 5-9,...
  • Atul Dixit Receives Swarnajayanti Fellowship
    2021-11-09 - Atul Dixit, who received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Illinois, has received the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Government of India, which was awarded to only 17 researchers in India this year. This year, there were three awarded in the mathematical sciences. Dixit's advisor at Illinois was Bruce Berndt. The...
  • Ando Named to 2022 Class of AMS Fellows
    2021-11-02 - Forty-five mathematical scientists from around the world have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2022, the program's tenth year. Among them is Matt Ando, professor in the Department of Mathematics and Associate Dean for Physical and Life Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and...
  • Touring the transformation of a campus landmark
    2021-11-01 - Enjoy this virtual walk-through of the inspiring changes that will modernize Altgeld Hall for future generations of Illini.  
  • Actuarial Science Program at Illinois Recognized
    2021-10-26 - The Bachelor's Degree Center, a resource to help prospective students find the best program suited to their needs and interests, has ranked the Actuarial Science undergraduate program at Illinois as #1 in the United States on its "25...
  • NSF Awards $2.5 Million Grant to Study Quantum Systems for Communication and Computing Problems
    2021-10-18 - Felix Leditzky, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, is co-principal investigator on a research project on quantum systems that was recently awarded $2.5 million dollars from the National Science Foundation. Quantum systems offer exciting new possibilities for communication and computing problems. A crucial...
  • In Memoriam: Donald Sherbert
    2021-10-17 - Don Sherbert, professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematics, passed away on Oct. 14, 2021.  After receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford, he accepted a faculty position at the University of Illinois Department of Mathematics. He wrote several mathematics books with colleagues. The Real Analysis book continues in publication today. In his later career, Don taught...
  • In Memoriam: John H. Walter
    2021-09-22 - John H. Walter, 93, of Champaign died peacefully at 5:15 pm. Monday, September 20, 2021, at Carle Foundation Hospital, in the comforting company of his wife and family. Born and raised in Los Angeles, John studied at the California Institute of Technology. After a brief service in the U.S. Navy just as World War II was reaching its close, he earned his PhD at the University of Michigan, where he...
  • DPI Science Team Awards to Math Faculty
    2021-09-20 - Two of our math faculty members earned Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) Science Team awards. Professor Yuliy Baryshnikov is a co-PI of the project titled "Hearing Health Institute," led by Professor Fatima Husain ...
  • Math and Statistics Student Support Center Opens
    2021-09-20 - The Math and Statistics Student Support Center (SSC) provides walk-in academic support and tutoring for students enrolled in introductory mathematics and statistics courses. Located in 24 Illini Hall, the center is staffed by qualified teaching assistants and course assistants. Access to the Student Support Center is restricted to students enrolled in designated Math and Statistics courses. There...
  • ASTIN Best Paper Award to Feng and Colleagues
    2021-09-08 - A paper by Runhuan Feng (Actuarial Science at Illinois), Chongda Liu (Mathematics at Illinois), and Stephen Michael Taylor (New Jersey Institute of Technology) was one of two winners of this year's ASTIN Colloquium...
  • Research on AI/ML and Data Science at Illinois
    2021-09-07 - Research from the Department of Mathematics at Illinois AI/ML Gauge invariant autoregressive neural networks for quantum lattice models | 2021 | D. Luo, Z. Chen, K. Hu, Z. Zhao, V.M. Hur, B.K. Clark...
  • In Memoriam: R. Ranga Rao
    2021-09-01 - We were saddened to learn about the recent death of Ranga Rao, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at Illinois.  A prominent mathematician from India, Professor Rao joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1961. After 40 years of service, he retired in 2001, and moved back to Chennai, India, in 2015. His obituary is...