Where Curiosity Drives Impact

Our department is home to many exemplary faculty who are leading researchers of their fields, expanding the boundaries of mathematics with rigorous discipline and imaginative solutions. Encompassing both pure mathematics and interdisciplinary work, our faculty is affiliated with a number of research groups at Illinois including The Combinatorics RTG, The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, The Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center, The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and more.

Jake Rasmussen, Robert and Ann Canary Professor of Mathematics

Research Spotlight

Differentiating Knots: knot Floer homology provides surprising link between symplectic geometry and knot theory.

Research News

Jozsef Balogh and Yuliy Baryshnikov
Two U of I math faculty members awarded Simons Fellowships
Professors József Balogh and Yuliy Baryshnikov were recently named 2024 Simons Fellows in Mathematics by the Simons Foundation.According to a recent press release from the Simons Foundation, “...
Felix Janda in front of a Calabi-Yau manifold
Inventing new ways to count curves
 In 1991, physicists studying string theory made a strange discovery that shook up the field of mathematics as we knew it. Using some experimental techniques to predict curve counts in six-dimensional space, they achieved a result that indicated a strong relationship between two very different...
Hanna Kim
Kuo-Tsai Chen Prize in Mathematics awarded to Hanna Kim
Hanna Kim, a PhD candidate in mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the 2024 Kuo-Tsai Chen Prize in Mathematics.The Kuo-Tsai Chen Prize, established in 1989, is given in recognition of outstanding scholastic achievement by a graduate student whose research...