searches

The department seeks to fill 3 tenure-track positions: 1 in Applied Math, 1 in Statistics, and 1 in any area.

Office hours

End-of-semester office hours are now posted. Regular office hours end December 6.

TG break

Our office will be closed Nov. 28-29, reopening Monday 12/2. Happy Thanksgiving!

Prof. Miller

Math Club talk by Claudia Miller: Dimension of a fractal +pizza. Wednesday, November 20th at 5:15pm in Carnegie 122.

Putnam Practice

Putnam practice session this Friday 11/15 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM in Carnegie Rm 120.

Joanna Masingila named Interim Dean-Designate

Joanna Masingila has been named Interim Dean-Designate of the School of Education. Congratulations!

The department hosted the 23rd Annual Route 81 Conference on commutative algebra and algebraic geometry on October 19.

Pi Mu Epsilon Guest Talk

Pi Mu Epsilon presents a guest talk: Josh Stangle, Newton Polygons +pizza. Wednesday, November 6th at 5:15pm in Carnegie 122.

Undergraduate Mathematics Presentations: Friday 10/11 in Carnegie 122 at 4pm. Pizza will be served. Following the meeting, there will be a Putnam practice session.

The academic genealogy of the department has been updated to include our new faculty colleague Yuan Yuan, as well as all living emeritus faculty.

Chancellor selected

Congratulations to Patrick Neary on the successful completion of his task as a member of the Chancellor Search Committee.

Clinics begin this week

Math Clinic and Calculus Help Center run weekdays in Carnegie 115. Schedule at math.syr.edu/help.

PME movie night

Roll up, roll up for math mystery tour: Wednesday 9/18 at 5:15 in Carnegie 122, with Pi Mu Epsilon. Movie+pizza.

Carnegie 122

New 85-seat auditorium Carnegie 122 is now the largest and best-equipped classroom in the building.

Putnam information session

Putnam contest information session: Friday 9/13 at 3:30 in Carnegie 103, presented by Pi Mu Epsilon.

Liang Zhao now a PhD

Liang Zhao successfully defended his PhD dissertation Filter-Based Multiscale Entropy Analysis of Complex Physiologic Time Series. Congratulations Dr. Zhao!

Jeremy Entner's defense

Jeremy Entner defended his Ph.D. thesis Methods of nonparametric multivariate ranking and selection. Congratulations, Dr. Entner!

Yuan Yuan wins an NSF grant

Our new faculty member Yuan Yuan won a 3-year NSF grant Geometric function theory in several complex variables and complex geometry. Congratulations and welcome to SU!

Jani Onninen wins an NSF grant

Jani Onninen wins a three-year NSF grant Variational Approach to Geometric Function Theory. Congratulations!

New grads

24 new graduate students join us in the Fall. Welcome to SU!

Graham Leuschke wins an NSA grant

Graham Leuschke wins an NSA grant to support his work on Theory and Applications of Maximal Cohen-Macaulay Modules.

Zeynep Ozal is now a PhD

Zeynep Ozal successfully defended her PhD thesis Extension properties of pluricomplex Green functions. Congratulations, Dr. Ozal!

Leonid Kovalev promoted and tenured

Hearty congratulations to Leonid Kovalev on his tenure and promotion to Full Professor!

Ted Cox is a Simons Fellow

Congratulations to Ted Cox on being selected as a Simons Fellow!

Dan Zacharia wins Advisor award

Dan Zacharia wins college-level Undergraduate Faculty Advisor award.

University Scholars

Graduating seniors Ryan Badman and Jaimee Robertson are among the 12 University Scholars. Congratulations!

Tadeusz Iwaniec grant

Tadeusz Iwaniec is awarded a 5-year NSF grant: Sobolev mappings and energy-integrals in mathematical models of nonlinear elasticity.

MAT 600

There is still time to sign up for our Summer course in Number Theory (MAT 600, open to both undergrads and grads).

Undergraduate Awards 2013

We congratulate undergraduate prize winners: Joe Andrade, Ben Hatch, Jaimee Robertson, Dylan Hsu, and Randi Rodecker.

New members of Pi Mu Epsilon

Congratulations to new members of Pi Mu Epsilon: Craig Allen, Grant Griffiths, Stephen Sorokanich, Xin Tian, and Ashley Valentijn.

Outstanding Teaching Assistants

Congratulations to Christa Carsten and Leonard Kamau on their Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award!

Fall 2013 courses

Fall 2013 course highlights

• 800 Variational Integrals and PDEs
• 830 Representations of Quivers
• 860 Complex Geometry
• 880 Finite Element Method
• 762 Algebraic Topology
• 781 Advanced Numerical Methods
• 581 will be offered Fall & Spring

Dan Coman wins an NSF grant

Dan Coman is awarded a 3-year NSF grant: Pluripotential Theory and Applications to Complex Geometry and Number Theory.

Dayal Dharmasena is now a PhD

Dayal Dharmasena successfully defended his PhD thesis Holomorphic Fundamental Semigroup of Riemann Domains. Congratulations, Dr. Dharmasena!

Graduate prize winners 2013

Congratulations to 2013 Exner Prize winners Joseph Grace and Lenny Kamau, and to 2013 Kibbey Prize winner Zeynep Ozal!

Mathematics Awareness Month

April 2013 is the Mathematics Awareness Month; its theme is Mathematics of Sustainability.

Fall 2012 Dean's list

Math majors are well represented on Fall 2012 Dean's lists of several SU schools and colleges: see the poster and complete lists.

Maymester course: Statistical Analysis with R

New courses offered this summer: Statistical Analysis with R (Maymester) and Topics in Number Theory (Session I).

We welcome a new colleague: Yuan Yuan from Johns Hopkins University will be joining us as a tenure-track assistant professor in the fall.

The 38th Annual NYS Graduate Mathematics Conference will be held at SU on April 13. It features lectures by John M. Lee and Robert S. Strichartz. Graduate students are welcome to give talks of 20 or 50 min. Register using online form. Abstracts due April 6th.

New issue of Mathematics Department newsletter is out. Featuring the newest members of the department, a word from Chair Eugene Poletsky, alumni updates, honors, awards, retirements, renovations, and more.

On the 100th birthday of Paul Erdős we remember his Syracuse period (1946-48). He published 24 papers with SU affiliation, including the influential "On a theorem of Hsu and Robbins", which established what became known as the Hsu-Robbins-Erdős law of large numbers.

How many colors are needed to color a map? This Wednesday 2/27 is your opportunity to find out. Pi Mu Epsilon event featuring Peter Horn begins at 5:15pm in Carnegie Room 313. Everyone is welcome.

Pi Mu Epsilon presents: How to Become an Actuary. This Wednesday at 5:15pm in Carnegie Room 313.

Our chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon (national mathematics honorary society) is accepting membership applications until March 29.

Are you interested in an exciting and fulfilling career as an actuary? If so, Joe Andrade has a message for you.

Deadlines for applications to Summer 2013 REU programs are approaching: see the list of programs. Our current math majors Keeley Naughton and Gordon Jones share their experience with REU in mathematics.

Pi Mu Epsilon invites you to the screening of "The Great pi/e Debate: Which is the Better Number?" this Wednesday (1/30) at 5:30 pm, Carnegie 313.

Patrick Neary has been appointed member of the Chancellor Search Committee.

Math and Calculus clinics begin January 22 at a new location: Carnegie 115.

Casey Necheles joined the department as a graduate student. Welcome Casey!

Collin Bruce and Brandon Milonovich graduated in December with M.S. in Mathematics Education. Congratulations!

Professor Emeritus Erik Hemmingsen passed away on December 30, 2012. He worked at SU for 40 years, including 8 years as the department chair. See Biography of Erik Hemmingsen, Recollections by Erik Hemmingsen, and Erik Hemmingsen Mathematics Collection.

A paper coauthored by Justin Cyr (B.S.'11, M.S.'12) was recently arXived; it is based on an REU project at Iowa State. Justin is now pursuing a Ph.D. at Indiana University.