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.