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.- 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.