Directed Reading Program presentations

The final presentation of Directed Reading Program are Tuesday April 30 at 5pm in Carnegie 122. Kevin Aubrey, Emily Dyckman, Sam Wheeler, and Yantao Wu present selected topics in machine learning, cryptography, and game theory.

Undergraduate prize winners

Congratulations to undergraduate award winners: Xinxuan Wang (Archimedes prize) and Jinyang Zhou (Euclid prize).

Graduate prizes

Congratulations to graduate award winners: Erin Tripp and Muzhi Jin (Kibbey Prize), Keshab Adhikari (Exner Prize), and Grace Njuguna (Outstanding TA Award)!

Evan Lewis

The Liberal Arts Experience: an interview with double Applied Mathematics / Physics major Evan Lewis.

MGO conference grant

Graham Leuschke and Caleb McWhorter received an NSF grant to support the Annual New York State Regional Graduate Mathematics Conference for next 3 years. Congratulations! This year's conference is on March 23, with keynote speakers Kathryn Mann and John Voight.

PME event, Casey Necheles

Undergraduate math talk: An Introduction to the Jones Polynomial by Casey Necheles, Sunday March 3rd at 3pm.

Putnam context

Yantao Wu, Xuerui Yang, and Jinyang Zhou successfully represented SU in 2018 Putnam contest.

New PME members

Kasey Brinkerhoff, Delong Chen, and Brittany Wright are new members of the national mathematics honorary society Pi Mu Epsilon. Congratulations!

Xinxuan Wang (BS '20) and Jinyang Zhou (BS '20) receive Undergraduate Research Stipends that will support their research projects mentored by Yuan Yuan and Pinyuen Chen.

Conference grant: Lee Kennard

Lee Kennard was the PI of a conference grant supporting the Australian-German Workshop on Differential Geometry in the Large.

Math club event

First Math Club meeting of the Spring semester: Chinese Checkers, Study Groups, PME Applications.

44th Annual New York State Regional Graduate Mathematics Conference

44th Annual New York State Regional Graduate Mathematics Conference takes place on Saturday March 23. Keynote speakers are Kathryn Mann and John Voight.

Winter newsletter

Winter 2018-19 Newsletter

Spring 2019 DRP

Applications to Spring 2019 Directed Reading Program are due January 19.

Erin Tripp has accepted an NRC Research Associateship which will support her work at Air Force Research Laboratory after graduation. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Loredana Lanzani on receiving a 5-year Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant!

Putnam / GRE sessions

Final Putnam contest practice is Sunday Nov 25, 2-3pm in Carnegie 120.

UG research talk: Fourier series and curves

Fourier Series and Closed Curves: Xuerui Yang talks about his summer research project. October 14 at 3pm, Carnegie 120.

The department hosts the 28th Annual Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry on Saturday September 29, 2018.

Go

Learn or practice playing Go: Sep 23 at 3 pm, Carnegie 120.

Summer Research Experience

Summer Research Experience (Sep 09 at 3 pm, Carnegie 120): come hear about the summer projects of two math majors, Andrew Cummings and Xinxuan Wang.

First Math Club meeting: Meet, Greet, form Study Groups

First Math Club meeting (Sep 02 at 3pm, Carnegie 120): meet, greet, form study groups for math courses, GRE, Putnam contest.

NSF Grants

New 3-year NSF awards: Fast algorithms for simulating the collective swimming of microorganisms to Minghao Rostami and Lipschitz analysis in normed and metric spaces to Leonid Kovalev. Congratulations!

Summer 2018 newsletter

Summer 2018 Newsletter

Douglas R. Anderson Faculty Scholar

Congratulations to Graham Leuschke on being named Douglas R. Anderson Faculty Scholar 2018-20!

Minghao Rostami grant

Minghao Rostami won a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award 2018-19, one of 36 such awards nationwide. Congratulations!

SCV conference

The 2018 Midwest Several Complex Variables Conference (in honor of Evgeny A. Poletsky on his 70th birthday) takes place at Syracuse University May 18-20.

Kathryn Munster named a Remembrance Scholar

Kathryn Munster, a double major in Applied Mathematics and Information Management & Technology, has been named a 2018-19 Remembrance Scholar.

New PhD

Congratulations to our new PhDs: Jennifer Edmond, James Heffers, Xiaoxia (Alice) Liu, and Robert Roy! James's dissertation won an All-University Doctoral Prize.

University Scholars

Congratulations to Jordan Barrett and Danika Van Niel on being selected as University Scholars!

Graham Leuschke wins 2018 Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award

Congratulations to Graham Leuschke on winning an Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award by the Graduate School!

Putnam competition

Xuerui Yang, a sophomore mathematics major, earned an Honorable Mention at 2017 Putnam Competition (rank 59). Congratulations!

Guohui Song promotion and tenure

Our alumnus Guohui Song (PhD 2009) was promoted to tenured Associate Professor at Clarkson University. Congratulations!

Kosmas Diveris promotion and tenure

Our alumnus Kosmas Diveris (PhD 2012) was promoted to tenured Associate Professor at St. Olaf College. Congratulations!

MAT 375, 412, 531 Strategies and Tips

Learn MAT 375, 412, 531 Strategies and Tips: Monday February 5th at 5:15, in Carnegie 122

Marju Purin promotion and tenure

Our alumna Marju Purin (PhD 2011) was promoted to tenured Associate Professor at St. Olaf College. Congratulations!

Newton Fellowship, Xuerui Yang

Xuerui Yang, a sophomore mathematics major, was awarded the Newton Fellowship for exceptional performance in Mathematics. Congratulations!

The 18th Midwest Several Complex Variables Conference will take place in Syracuse (May 18-20, 2018), supported by an NSF grant to Dan Coman, Loredana Lanzani, and Yuan Yuan.

NSF award to MGO

The Mathematics Graduate Organization was awarded an NSF grant to support the annual MGO conference.

Mingyue Wang

Mingyue Wang won the first prize for her poster A two-stage design for selecting the t best among Bernoulli treatments and a control at ASA Biopharmaceutical Section conference. Congratulations to Mingyue and her advisor, Pinyuen Chen!

REU programs

Learn about Research Experience for Undergraduates from a recent participant, Danika Van Niel. November 6 at 5:30pm, Carnegie 122.

Guy Johnson

Professor Emeritus Guy Johnson passed away on August 30, 2017 in Loveland, CO. He joined SU in 1966 and retired in 1987. Obituary.

Graduate studies in Biostatistics and Statistics

Graduate studies in Biostatistics and Statistics, presented by Kevin Donovan (SU alum) and Mingyue Wang (SU grad student). Oct 17 at 5:30, Carnegie 122.

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!