Wencai Liu, with Svetlana Jitomirskaya, has just received theFrontiers of Science Awardat the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science.
Department Outstanding Teaching Awards went to Irina Bobkova and Constantin Onica. Department Outstanding Service Awards went to David Manuel and Philip Yasskin.
Instructional Professor Oksana Shatalov wins the 2023 Public Engagement and Outreach Award, and Applied Mathematics Major William Frendreiss wins a 2023 Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, from the College of Arts & Sciences.
Applied Mathematics MajorWilliam Frendreisshas been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to join the Georgia Tech ACO program in interdisciplinary math and computer science. He has been advised in undergraduate research and thesis at TAMU by Assistant Professor Wencai Liu and by Professor Matthew Young.
TheMathematics and Statistics Fairwill be held on April 15, 2023. This event is free and open to all ages, featuring problem-solving, games, puzzles, mathematical arts and crafts, and a public lecture. For more information and to register, clickhere.
Peter Kuchmenthas been selected as Distinguished Rothschild Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge.
Sue Gellerhas been selected asFellowof the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Class of 2023.
Chia-Yu Chang(advisor JM Landsberg) andKa Ho Wong(advisor Tian Yang) have been selected to receive the department's Guseman Prize for graduate students.
The 2022 High School Math Conteston campus on November 12 was a great success, with about 270 students from around 45 different schools, coaches, and parents participating.
Oksana Shatalovhas been selected to receive a Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. See the College of Science newsarticle.
Texas A&M University will host theMathematics and Statistics Fairon Saturday, February 26, 2022 in Blocker. The fair will be fun for family members of all ages.
Simon Foucartis named Director of the Center for Approximation and Mathematical Data Analytics (CAMDA), formerly the Center for Approximation Theory.
Travis Dillon, former TAMU REU student mentored by Matthew Young, receives the2022 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prizefor Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student, for collected works.
Priyanga Ganesan (advisors Michael Brannan and Eric Rowell) is the fall 2021 recipient of the Dr. Joseph Newton Graduate Student Service Award.
Agam Shayit, physics major, has been selected for theHyer Awardfor work supervised by ProfessorSteven Fulling.
Zhengye Zhou (advisor Jeffrey Kuan) andElise Walker (advisor Frank Sottile) have been selected to receive the department's Guseman Prize for graduate students.
Stuart White, former postdoc, was awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society. See the citationhere.
Simon Foucarthas been named Associate Director for External Academic Engagement at Texas A&M Institute for Data Science (TAMIDS). See TAMIDSannouncement.
Matthew Faust, PhD student, has won a2020 Paul R. Halmos-Lester R. Ford Awardwith coauthors for an outstanding expository article in American Mathematical Monthly.
Cosmas Kravaris, mathematics major, has been selected as a 2021 Astronaut Scholar. See College of Sciencearticle.
Elise Walker, PhD student, has won a 2021 College of Science Leadership in Equity and Diversity Award.
Sara Pollock, a former Visiting Assistant Professor currently at the University of Florida, has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant.
TAMUAssociation for Women in Mathematics Student Chapterhas won an Adair Organization of the Year Award for student organizations. Leaders of the student chapter are Priyanga Ganesan, Hannah Solomon, Lauren Snider, Zhaobidan Feng, Elise Walker, and faculty advisor Laura Matusevich.
Texas A&M University will host the Mathematics and Statistics Fair on Saturday, February 27, 2021 via Zoom. The fair will be fun for family members of all ages.Registration information.
Kari Eifleris selected for the 2020-21 Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Mentoring.
The TAMUStudent Chapterof the Association for Women in Mathematics won the 2020 Award in the Community Outreach Category. See article on page 9 of theAWM Newsletter.
Anne Shiuwas elected Member at Large of the American Mathematical Society Council. See the election resultshere.
Texas A&M hosted (remotely) the third annual meeting of the SIAM TX-LA Section, October 16-18, 2020. There were 550 participants from all over the world. See theSIAM News article.
Kari Eifler is the fall 2020 recipient of the Dr. Joseph Newton Graduate Student Service Award.
Nida ObatakeandEric Tovarare this years recipients of the department's Larry Guseman Prize in Mathematics for graduate students.
Edriss Titiand collaborators Chongsheng Cao and Jinkai Li were selected to receive a 2020 ICCM Best Paper Award for "Global well-posedness of the three-dimensional primitive equations with only horizontal viscosity and diffusion".
Nida Obatakehas been awarded an American Dissertation Fellowship by the American Association of University Women.
Angela Allenhas been selected to receive a Distinguished Achievement College-Level Award in Teaching from the Association of Former Students.
Laura MatusevichandNida Obatakeare recipients of the 2020 College of Science Leadership in Equity and Diversity (LEAD) Awards.
Graduate studentPriyanga Ganesanhas been awarded a Texas A&M University AB & Hazel H. Carter Scholarship for academic excellence.
The Board of Regents has accorded the titles of Instructional Assistant Professor of Mathematics Emerita and Professor of Mathematics Emeritus toMila MogilevskyandJon Pitts, respectively.
Jean-Luc Guermond, Mobil Chair in Computational Science and Numerical Analysis, has been awarded anINRIA International Chair,one of three given annually.
Eric Rowell, Paul Bruillard, Richard Ng, and Zhenghan Wang have been selected to receive the Gerald L. Alexanderson Award (see page 10 ofAIM Newsletter) by the American Institute of Mathematics(AIM) for their paper"Rank-finiteness for modular categories"(Journal of the American Mathematical Society 29 (2016), 857-881).
Congratulations to our Putnam team, Advait Parulekar, Jordan Lamkin, and Matthew Kroesche, who placed 20th at the2018 competition. The team is coached by Doug Hensley.
Assistant ProfessorJunehuyk Junghas been awarded aSloan Fellowship. CoS article ishere.
University Distinguished Professor and Koss Professor of Mathematics Ron DeVorehas been named Highly Cited Researcher byClarivate Analytics. CoS story ishere.
Bill Johnson and Alex Poltoratski are speaking at the ICM today and tomorrow. CoS article is here.
Eric Rowell has been named a 2018 Presidential Impact Fellow. CoS story is here.
Maurice Rojas has been selected to receive a College of Science Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award.
Anne Shiu has been designated to be the CoS 2018-19 Montague-CTE scholar. She will implement an NSF supported Directed Reading Program for our undergraduates.
REU alumni/alumnae excell with NSF Graduate Fellowships. Seven of our recent REU students have been awarded NSF Graduate Fellowships: Bryan Felix (2016), Caitlin Lienkaemper (2015), Sarah Reitzes (2015), Zev Woodstock (2015), Aaron Chen (2016), Kayla Cummings (2016), and Lucy Yang (2016).
Our Putnam team consisting of Advait Parulekar, Jordan Lamkin, and Matthew Kroesche placed 23rd in this year's competition. The team is coached by Doug Hensley. Congratulations!
Assistant Professor Anne Shiu has been awarded an NSF-CAREER grant. See here for CoS article.
The 2018 Sue Geller Undergraduate Lecture will be held Wednesday, January 17, at 6:00pm in Blocker 117 (reception at 6:30). The series is named in honor of Professor Sue Geller in the Department of Mathematics. This year's Lecturer is Judy L. Walker, Aaron Douglas Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska. Everyone is welcome.
Eric Rowell is one of four PIs on a Focused Research Groups $1.3 million ($307,894 locally) grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the mathematical foundations of topological quantum computation and their applications. The other partner institutions are UC Santa Barbara, Louisiana State University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See stories here and here.
The Department of Mathematics is offering a game based calculus course in Spring 2018 (look for Math289 in Howdy). The course is based on the game Variant, by Triseum. This game resulted from an initial $100K seed grant from the TAMU Tier-One program, for which Paulo Lima-Filho and Triseum CEO Andre Thomas served as Principal Investigators.
TAMU Qatar hosts mathematics camp attracting young students from across Qatar. The event was organized by Ahmad El-Guindy, Associate Proferssor of Mathematics at TAMUQ.
Join us at JMM 2018 for the department's third annual alumni, student, and faculty reception, 5:30 - 7:30, Friday, Jan. 12, in the Newport Beach Room of the Marriot Marquis San Diego Marina hotel.
Our undergraduates win awards at 2017 MAA MathFest: Preston Biro is Student Problem Solving Champion and Devyn Rice and Renee Swischuk win Outstanding Presentation Awards. Also, High School senior and Math Circle alumnus Parth Sarin wins a Pi Mu Epsilon Student Speaker Award.
Professors Don Allen, Mike Pilant, Joel Zinn, and Associate Professors Mike Stecher and Tom Vogel have been granted Emeritus status by the Board of Regents at their August meeting.
Bill Johnson and Alex Poltoratski are invited speakers at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Our Putnam team (Matthew Kroesche, Advait Parulekar, Andrew Armstrong) placed 31st in the December 2016 competition. The team is coached by Doug Hensley.
Kristin Lauter will deliver this year's Maxson Lectures, April 18-19.
Three of our undergraduates won awards during Student Research Week: Thomas Settlemyre and Joseph Merritt (joint), first place,Sigma Xi Interdisciplinary Award; Devyn Rice (joint with Cassidy Caldwell,, TL&C), second place in Human Development and Education.
Math Booth at Texas A&M STEMfest 2017, Saturday February 4. See here for pictures (both training and actual event).
One of our undergraduate students, Meghan Shanks, received an Outstanding Poster Award at the MAA Student Poster Session at JMM 2017.
Timo de Wolff has been awarded a prestigious Emmy Noether Fellowship by the DFG which will fund a junior research group under his direction for five years at the Technical University of Berlin.
For the third year in a row, Distinguished Professor and Holder of the Koss Professorship in Mathematics Ron DeVore is among Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers. CoS article is here.
The Colleges of Liberal Arts, Medicine, and Science are teaming up for a Nobel Prizes `Symposium' Friday, Dec. 2 at 4:00pm in the Hawking Auditorium. Eric Rowell will elucidate some ideas behind the Physics Prize involving topological phases of matter. See also CoS article and Eagle article.
Graduate students Sourav Dutta and Fulvio Gesmundo awarded the L.F.Guseman Prize in Mathematics.
Nathan Mehlhop, one of our undergraduates, received a certificate for Outstanding Presentation at this summer's MathFest at the MAA Student Paper Session. Congratulations!
Christian Williams, one of our Math majors, placed third in the National Math Problem Solving Competition at MathFest.
Our Putnam team placed 58th out of several hundred teams at this year's competition. Two team members, Advait Parulekar and Matthew Kroesche, earned individual distictions for placing in the top 500 out of 4275 contestants. The team is coached by Doug Hensley.
Mike Pilant has been named a Fellow of the ICTCM at its 2016 session.
SIAM News front page article by Wolfgang Bangerth, Juliane Dannberg (Research Visitor), Rene Gassmoller (Research Visitor), Timo Heister (former post-doc), on Computational Modeling of Convection in the Earth's Mantle.
US News and World Report has published its new Best Global Universities research rankings. In mathematics (which comprises mathematics plus statistics), our ranking is #17 (up from 21 last year). See also the Shanghai rankings, #14.
Graduateprograms.com has announced its Fall 2015 rankings of the top Mathematics graduate programs according to graduate students, ranking the department #8.
For the second year in a row, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Ronald DeVore has been recognized by Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers. DeVore is the holder of the Walter E. Koss Endowed Professorship in Mathematics.
Our UG student Madeline Hansalik received an award for student research/presentation at this year's Math Fest for her presentation on Magnetic Spectral Decimation on Self Similar Fractals.
Andrew Penland and Kaitlyn Phillipson named College of Science Graduate Teaching Fellows
2014 Outstanding award presented to Wolfgang Bangerth (teaching), Tom Vogel (teaching), Matt Papanikolas (service), and Roger Smith (service); Christy Sparkman wins staff award
A&M maths students who won awards at this year's MathFest: Daniel Miller (SIAM Prize) at the Pi Mu Epsilon Student Sessions; Will Linz (third place in the problem solving competition); Aditi Ghosh (runner-up for the best AWM poster at the meeting)
Peter Howard wins Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award (College Level)
Eagle article on this year's SEE Math Camp; watch video here
Winners of this year's Houston A&M Mothers' Club Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards: David Carroll, Keaton Hamm, Mallikarjuna Muddamallappa, Yi-Ching Wang, and Tracy Weyand
Marcia Drost receives John J. Koldus III Faculty and Staff Achievement Award
Fields medallist Alain Connes to deliver the inaugural Foais Lectures on May 2nd and 3rd as part of Noncommutative Geometry Festival
Maths department's L.F. Guseman Prize awarded to doctoral students Ryan Causey and Kaitlyn Phillipson
Sue Geller selected to receive Women's Faculty Network Outstanding Mentoring Award for the year 2013
Ron DeVore wins the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Research; AFS awards for teaching (university level) go to Jean Marie Linhart and Jay Walton; click here for more
Mark Stern has been inducted to the College of Science Academy of Distinguished Former Students. Stern took his undergradute degree in maths from Texas A&M University in 1980.
Alisa Baron named winner of the 2013-14 President's Meritorious Service Award
Doctoral students Van Nguyen, Sofia Ortega-Castillo, and Tracy Weyand presented posters at the Association of Women in Mathematics Workshop Poster Competition in Baltimore; Weyand tied for first place awarded to the most outstanding graduate student research poster.
Michael Anshelevich named maths department's Director of Undergraduate Research
Joint appointment for Maurice Rojas in the department of Computer Science
The 2013 recipients of the maths department's awards for Outstanding Teaching and Service: Joe Kahlig and Steve Fulling (teaching); Heather Ramsey and Zoran Sunik (service).
Doctoral student Van Nguyen bags Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Research
Senior mathematics major Ernesto Calleros and senior physics major Christopher Akers, who is minoring in maths, awarded the John B. Beckham Award in Science
John Hauenstein, former Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at TAMU, receives a DARPA Young Faculty Award
Kumbakonam Rajagopal has received an honorary doctorate from Charles University, Prague.
Professor Emeritus Carl Maxson was presented an Honorary Doctorate for his outstanding contributions to Algebra from the Johannes Kepler University.
May Boggess and her students enjoy coloring for an educational cause as part of a unique Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in the Department of Mathematics.
Phil Yasskin has been selected to receive a College Level Association of Former Students Teaching Award, Fall 2011.
Emil Straube has officially been named head of the Mathematics Department, effective September 1, 2011.
Gilles Pisier has been elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy to honor is fundamental work in functional analysis, harmonic analysis, and probability.
The National Research Council has released its rankings of graduate programs by discipline, overall the department ranked 25th in the nation and 14th among public institutions.
M. Aguiar, N. Bergeron, and F. Sottile are one of two runners-up for the 2010 Compositio prize for best paper "Combinatorial Hopf algebras and generalized Dehn-Sommerville relations," published in Compositio Mathematica 2006--2009.
The following mathematics faculty members have been given Teaching Excellence
Angela Allen and Joel Zinn have received the 2009 Departmental Outstanding Teaching Award.Awards (SLATE) by the A&M System: Angela Allen, Amy Austin, Jon Hauenstein, and Heather Ramsey. Angela Allen and Jon Hauenstein’s awards are in the top category
Professor Jay Walton has been designated to receive an Association of Former Students Award in Teaching at the College level in 2010.
Ronald Douglas receives honorary doctorate from University of Waterloo.
Harold Boas receives Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement University-Level Award in Teaching 2010.
Joe Pasciak Receives Sigma Xi Outstanding Science Communicator Award 2010.
Yalchin Efendiev has been selected to receive the Fraunhofer-Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
Peter Howard has been selected to receive the Partner in Learning Award from the Department of Multicultural Services 2010.
Sandra Nite won first place in her session "Teaching and Learning" and took second place overall in our College for her participation in Student Research Week.
The following promotions were approved by the Chancellor and Board of Regents beginning September 1: