Special Colloquium Series

Special Colloquium Series in honor of the 70th birthday of John Raymond French Professor Tadeusz Iwaniec takes place on October 9.

Problem solving sessions

Problem solving sessions (GRE Math, Putnam contest, and more) run Wednesdays at 5:30 in Carnegie 111.

Movie Night

Math movie night: Hidden Figures: Sep 25 at 5:30, Carnegie 122.

Grace Wang NIH grant

Grace Wang won a 3-year interdisciplinary NIH grant "Geometric Time-Frequency Methods for Multi-modal Physiological Monitoring". Congratulations!

Northeast Analysis Network

The 2017 Northeast Analysis Network Conference takes place September 22-23 at SU.

Qian Huang defense

Qian Huang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Stable sparse orthogonal factorization of ill-conditioned banded matrices for parallel computing. Well done Dr. Huang!

Onninen grant

Jani Onninen won a 3-year NSF grant to support his work on Sobolev Mappings of Smallest Energy. Congratulations!

Coman grant

Dan Coman won a 3-year NSF grant to support his work on Pluripotential Theory and Applications to Complex Geometry and Number Theory. Congratulations!

Rostami grant

Minghao Rostami won a 5-year Simon Foundation grant to support her work on Fast Algorithms for Fluid-structure interaction and Pseudospectral Analysis. Congratulations!

Wylie CAREER grant

William Wylie won a 5-year NSF CAREER award Aspects of Riemannian Geometry and Manifolds with Density. Congratulations!

Summer office hours

Summer office hours are in effect 5/15–8/25: the Math office will be open 8am to 4:30pm, Monday–Friday.

Remembrance Scholars

Two of our majors are among the 35 Remembrance Scholars 2017-18: Zainab Abdali (Mathematics and English major) and Xintong Wang (Applied Mathematics and Economics major).

Jack Graver

Jack Graver was recognized with a 50-year service award during the inaugural One University Awards Ceremony

Daniel Cuneo defense

Daniel Cuneo successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Mappings between annuli of minimal p-harmonic energy. Well done Dr. Cuneo!

Joshua Stangle defense

Josh Stangle successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Representation Theory of Orders over Cohen-Macaulay Rings. Well done Dr. Stangle!

Graduate awards 2017

Congratulations to graduate award winners: James Heffers and Josh Stangle (Kibbey prize), Victoria Wambua (Exner prize), Rachel Gettinger, Erin Tripp, and Victoria Wambua (outstanding TA).

2017 Finger Lakes Probability Seminar

2017 Finger Lakes Probability Seminar takes place at SU on April 21-22.

Jordan Barrett is a Goldwater Scholar

Jordan Barrett, a Mathematics and Physics major, was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations!

PME: Jan Ondrich

Actuarial Careers: a presentation by Economics Professor Jan Ondrich at 5pm, April 18.

Erin Tripp

Linear Algebra, Optimization, and Image Segmentation: a presentation by graduate student Erin Tripp at 5pm, March 21.

Wolfgang B. Jurkat

Professor Emeritus Wolfgang B. Jurkat passed away on January 7, 2017 in Ulm, Germany. He joined SU in 1957 and held the title of John Raymond French Professor of Mathematics from 1976 until his resignation in 1990. He initiated an exchange program under which Ulm graduate students study abroad, including at SU.

Textbooks, syllabi

Spring 2017 textbook list and many of Spring 2017 syllabi are now available online: see Quick Links on the left.

Holiday break

The Mathematics Office (215 Carnegie) will be closing on Thursday, 12/22/16 at 3pm and reopening on Tuesday, 1/3/17 at 8:30am.

Tyler Fernandez

Tyler Fernandez presents Integer Partitions: Tuesday 12/13, 5pm, Carnegie 120.

End of semester Calculus Help Center

Calculus Help Center end of semester hours are now posted.

New patent

Congratulations to Lixin Shen and Yuesheng Xu on the approval of the U.S. Patent Methods and systems for inverse problem reconstruction and application to ECT reconstruction!

Mark Kleiner talk

PME presents a math club talk by Mark Kleiner: Mirrors and Reflections. Tuesday October 25 at 5pm, Carnegie 122.

Clinics

Stuck on a homework problem? Calculus Help Center and Math Clinic are open Monday-Friday.

Visualizing projective space

PME presents Math Club talk by Rebecca R.G.: Visualizing projective space. Tuesday October 18 at 5pm, Carnegie 122.

Mathematical modeling

PME / Math Club event on mathematical modeling contests, featuring two recent participants. Tue. 10/11, Carnegie 122 at 5pm.

University of Chicago Financial Mathematics program

Financial Mathematics presentation by University of Chicago M.S. program: Wednesday 9/28 at 5:30 pm, in Carnegie 122.

Problem solving sessions

Problem solving sessions (GRE Math, Putnam contest, and more) run Thursdays at 5 in Carnegie 111.

PME: Math and Origami

PME / Math Club event: Math and Origami. Tuesday September 13 at 5pm, Carnegie 122.

NSA

Laura Ballard will be interning at NSA in the summer. Congratulations!

Karl Barth

Professor Emeritus Karl Barth passed away on May 5, 2016. He joined the department in 1966 and retired in 2005 after 39 years of service.

41st MGO Conference

The 41st MGO conference takes place on Saturday April 9th. The keynote speakers are Steven Zelditch and Jeffery Weeks.

AFRL

Erin Tripp, Jialing Li, and Stephen Farnham will be interning at Air Force Research Lab in the summer. Congratulations!

The Mathematics of Data Science

PME / Math Club event: Mathematics of Data Science, featuring Grace Wang. Thursday April 14 at 5pm, Carnegie 100.

Conference grants

Several of our colleagues recently won conference grants: Tadeusz Iwaniec, Mark Kleiner, Loredana Lanzani, Graham Leuschke, and Dan Zacharia. Congratulations!

SU grants

Congratulations to Jack Graver, Claudia Miller, Lixin Shen, Yuan Yuan, and Dan Zacharia on winning internal research grants!

Math club: What is Graph Theory?

Denise Rangel Tracy explains what Graph Theory is at Math Club this Tuesday 3/29 at 5:00pm, Carnegie 120. All interested students are welcome to attend.

Math Movie: Topology / Number Theory debate

Math movie night, 02/17 at 5:15pm in Carnegie 122: The United States of Mathematics Presidential Debate (PME / Math Club event)

PME talk: Fullerenes and Graphs

Prof. Graver speaks on Fullerenes and Graphs on Thursday Dec. 3 at 5:00pm in Carnegie 120.

Job searches

Open tenure-track positions: Applied Mathematics and Mathematics Education.

PME talk

Undergraduate Math Club: Turgay Bayraktar speaks on Zeros of Random Polynomials on 11/12 at 5pm, Carnegie 120.

WiSE-FPP

Congratulations to graduate students Laura Ballard, Rachel Gettinger, Casey Necheles, and Erin Tripp on their acceptance to the 2015-2016 cohort of WiSE-FPP (Women in Science and Engineering Future Professionals Program).

Math talk by Fred Gard

Undergraduate math talk: Fred Gard explains Odd distances in the plane on Thursday 11/5, at 5pm in Carnegie 120.

This week, PME/Math Club discussion centers on actuarial and other applied math. Th. 10/29 at 5pm in Carnegie 120.

Chengye Hou

We remember Chengye Hou, who graduated in May 2015 with majors in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. Chengye died on Oct. 22.

PME / Math club event

PME / Math club event: Combinatorial games with stones, Thursday October 15 starting at 5pm in Carnegie 120.