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Demand for people who can apply mathematics skills in business and financial environments are growing rapidly, but a typical undergraduate mathematics degree may not adequately prepare a student to work effectively in a business environment.

The University of Connecticut's Professional M.S. in Applied Financial Mathematics prepares a graduate for work in an analytic capacity across a wide spectrum of the financial service industry - investment banks, hedge funds, consulting firms, investment firms, insurance companies, commercial banks, brokerage houses and other corporations. …More…

Announcements
  • The New Student Waiting List for Spring 2010 math courses has been activated.
  • Math Major Forms are now online. New and current majors can use them to choose advisors and carry out other administrative tasks. (October, 2009)
  • The Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition will be given on Saturday, December 5. The Putnam exam consists of a dozen interesting and challenging problems. Further information can be obtained at the News page or from Professor S. J. Sidney, MSB 419b/c, 486-8380, sidney@math.uconn.edu. (September 2009)
  • Joseph Pomianowski, a Spring 2009 graduate with a double major in Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) and Mathematics, has been awarded the prestigious Kosciuszko Award to support his graduate studies at Harvard.
    Joseph has also received the Harriet Irsay Scholarship from the American Institute of Polish Culture.
    Joseph will be doing a Master's degree in the History of Science. He came to this subject because of his interest in Stefan Banach, on whom he has already done a great deal of research. (July 2009)
  • Rich Bass has been awarded an NSF grant from the Probability Program for his proposal "Stochastic differential equations: potential theory and uniqueness". (July 2009)
  • Fabiana Cardetti, Tom deFranco (who has a joint appointment with the NEAG School of Education), and Chuck Vinsonhaler are the recipients of a $900,000 NSF grant jointly with Mike Alfano from the NEAG School of Education and Juliet Lee from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB).

    The 5 year grant is the from the NSF Robert Noyce Scholarship Program. The purpose of the grant is to encourage math and science majors to go into teaching.