2021-03-18
- It’s difficult to picture while standing in the lobby of the Altgeld library today. However, generations ago a spectacular display of color – greens, ambers, purples, and cobalt blues – crowned one of the most special spaces on campus.
2021-03-16 - Among the statistics detailed within the report, the average starting salary of new alumni grew significantly during the past year for several LAS categories, including mathematics and statistics, which grew from $77,523 in 2018-19 to $79,590 in 2019-20, the highest in the college.
2021-02-17 - The University of Illinois will not only cohost its first major international insurance research conference this summer, but also the first virtual International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics ever.
2021-01-26 - Seven staff and academic professionals are being recognized for outstanding contributions to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences in 2020-21, including Alison Reddy, director of mathematics placement and coordinator of quantitative reasoning courses in the Department of Mathematics.
2021-01-08 - For Bill and Linda Perry, Altgeld Hall is about mathematics—and so much more. Bill and Linda’s gratitude for their experience at Illinois led them to make a donation to the Campaign for Altgeld and Illini Halls, which is supporting the renovation Altgeld Hall and the construction of a new building on the site of Illini Hall.
2020-11-17 - Urban planners may soon have a new way to measure traffic congestion. By capturing the different routes by which vehicles can travel between locations, Illinois researchers have developed a new computer algorithm that helps quantify regions of congestion in urban areas and suggests ways around them.
2020-11-05 - Richard Laugesen, professor of mathematics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Fadil Santosa, head of applied mathematics and statistics at Johns Hopkins University, recognized the vast need to provide training and career experiences to graduate students that prepare them for mathematically meaningful career paths in BIG. Thus, Inmas – the Internship Network in the Mathematical...
2020-09-11 - J.L. Doob Research Assistant Professor Eric Samperton has been awarded an EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
2020-09-02 - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of four winners of the 2020 CAS University Award from the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), a leading international organization for credentialing and professional education....
2020-09-01 - Ramona (Russell) Pogue Borders graduated from the University of Illinois in 1948 while her dear friend Peggy (Young) Ruff earned her degree from the Department of Mathematics in 1975; However, no matter the years, the two have a loyal friendship that is based on honesty and giving – two priorities that have led Borders to make an estate gift to benefit the Altgeld Hall renovation.
2020-07-14 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $15.5 million to four universities in Illinois, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to create an institute to bring powerful mathematical ideas to bear on key contemporary scientific and technological challenges. Researchers at the new Institute for Mathematical and Statistical...
2020-07-02 - Eight Illinois projects, including a project led by Professor Zoi Rapti, are among 26 to receive the first C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute awards for artificial intelligence techniques to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-06-30 - Effectively immediately, all Department of Mathematics staff offices are temporarily closed for face-to-face interaction until further notice.
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 February 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.