2020-05-28 - A pioneer in the field of symplectic representation theory and one of our department’s most accomplished instructors, Professor Thomas Nevins passed away on Feb. 1, 2020.

2020-05-28 - The Board of Trustees has approved schematic designs for the expansive Altgeld and Illini Hall Project, bringing closer to reality the $192 million plan to modernize and grow spaces devoted to data science and other mathematical sciences.

2020-05-27 - This spring, faculty, staff members and graduate teaching assistants were honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring and advising. Congratulations to our Department of Mathematics Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching recipients, Zoi Rapti, Aldo Manfroi, and Elizabeth Field.

2020-05-26 - John Ralph Alexander was born Jan 2, 1935, and died October 27, 2019. Ralph's main research was in integral geometry and convexity theory. He was most proud of his work on irregularities of distribution and on Hilbert’s fourth problem.  His paper ``Principles of a new method in the study of irregularities of distribution'' appeared in the prestigious journal Inventiones Mathematicae....

2020-05-15 - Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, mathematical analysis has played a critical role in shaping decisions about the transmission of the virus, as well as decisions at all levels of government and business. Researchers in the Illinois Department of Mathematics have begun publishing results of their modeling and simulations on those topics to help guide policy and response.

2020-05-14 - Nancy Anderson, librarian for the Department of Mathematics for 32 years, passed away on May 12, 2020. She worked in Technical Services at the UIUC Library from 1968 to 1972. In 1972, she was appointed Mathematics Librarian, where she rose to the rank of Professor of Library administration. During her tenure, the mathematics collection more than doubled to nearly 100,000 volumes and was...

2020-04-30 - Steven Armstrong (BS, ’92, actuarial science) has been named the recipient of the 2020 Actuarial Science Alumnus of the Year Award by the Illinois Department of Mathematics for his exceptional career and contributions to the actuarial field and unwavering support of the advancement and continued excellence of the Illinois Actuarial Science Program.

2020-04-21 - UPDATE 4/23: Yesterday afternoon, Technology Services resolved the email redirection issue for affected students. Students should now be receiving all emails in their preferred inbox.

2020-03-31 - A new artificial intelligence consortium that will include the University of Illinois has made fighting the COVID-19 pandemic its first order of business. The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute will occupy space in a new building scheduled to be constructed by 2022 on the site of Illini Hall. 

2020-03-11 - A study of the early career paths of University of Illinois graduates reveals strong and steady success among new alumni from the College of LAS, including salary growth for new Department of Mathematics alumni.

2020-03-11 - Among this year’s recipients are Professor Zoi Rapti, who received a LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching; and graduate student Elizabeth Field, a recipient of a LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants.

2020-02-12 - Two University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign scientists are among 126 recipients of the 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

2020-01-28 - Jane Bergman, office manager for the Department of Mathematics, has been awarded a Heritage Award from the Preservation and Conservation Association of Champaign County (PACA) for her replica of the former Altgeld Hall glass dome.

2019-12-21 - Professor Emeritus Richard Bishop passed away on Wednesday, December 18, 2019. Dick was a prominent figure in differential and Riemannian geometry who made many influential contributions, especially in connection with Riemannian comparison theorems and the study of geodesic metric spaces with synthetic curvature bounds. One of his most well-known results was a volume comparison theorem for...

2019-12-21 - Department of Mathematics faculty members Yuliy Baryshnikov, Lee DeVille, and Kay Kirkpatrick are involved in a new project at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign that plans to break down the boundaries between the fields of data science and dynamical systems. Housed at the interdisciplinary Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Illinois Institute for Data Science and Dynamical Systems (...