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 (...- 2019-11-04 - The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Professor Thomas Nevins and Professor Emeritus Jang-Mei Wu have been selected to the 2020 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Nevins was cited for his contributions to noncommutative algebra, representation theory, and algebraic and symplectic geometry. Wu was cited for her contributions to...
2019-10-22 - Urban commuters may be less likely to encounter automobile accidents if they are willing to increase trip time, researchers report. A new study from the University of Illinois introduces a tool that helps quantify the connection between traffic accidents and city road networks. The study, published in the journal Transportation Research Part C, used traffic speed, accident count, and trip origin...- 2019-10-22 - James A. Donaldson (b. 1941), Illinois Mathematics alumnus, passed away on October 18, 2019. Donaldson, Professor Emeritus at Howard University, received his master’s degree in mathematics at Illinois in 1963 and his PhD in Mathematics in 1965 with faculty advisor Ray Langebartel. He served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Howard University from 1972 to 1990. During his...
- 2019-10-17 - Billy Dec knows what it’s like to be on the receiving end of help. When he wanted to come to the University of Illinois in 1991, he couldn’t afford it, so he drove down from Chicago and showed up at the financial aid office. A staff member noticed him looking distraught, and over the next few days this person walked him through the entire process of finding money to live on and go to school....
- 2019-10-10 - Sue Wood, 85, of Philo passed away Sunday (Oct. 6, 2019). Her lifelong love of music led her to learn and become the chimes master at the university’s carillons at Altgeld Hall. Sue was known to have said, “Music is the thing that makes life worth living.” In this video from 2014, Sue talks about the Altgeld Hall Senior Memorial...
- 2019-09-23 - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is selected as one of eight universities to participate in a new initiative to change the culture surrounding doctoral education and career pathways. Four academic departments that span STEM and the Humanities/Arts will participate in the Initiative: English, History, Mathematics, and Physics....