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News from the Math Department

  • The Mathematics Department's Annual Awards Day took place on April 30 at 3:30 PM in IMS 20. The invited address "Math is not a spectator sport," was given by Glen Whitney, the president of the Museum of Mathematics.
  • Tyler Reese was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Tyler worked under guidance of Luke Rogers, Dan Kelleher and Sasha Teplyaev. He will continue his research in the Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics graduate program at the University of Michigan.
  • The Math Waiting List is set up for the Fall 2013 semester. The Waiting List shows the current enrollment for each course and the number of students on the waiting list.
  • The Math Waiting List is set up for the spring semester. The Waiting List shows the current enrollment for each course and the number of students on the waiting list.
  • Amit Savkar received the AAUP Excellence Award in Teaching Innovation for 2013, along with Xinnian Chen (Physiology and Neurobiology).
  • Jim Trimble and Michael Braunstein were interviewed about the UConn Actuarial Science Program on Wili AM 1400 on March 13, 2013. The interview is available online.
  • The annual Calculus Competition was held Thursday April 4th 2013 from 7 to 9 PM in MSB 219.
  • Professor Changfeng Gui is on the scientific committee of an international conference on analysis and PDEs to be held during July 7-12 in Vancouver, Canada. He received a grant from NSF to support US participants. More informaiton about the meeting can be found at the conference website.
  • Professor Vadim Olshevsky will serve as a chair of the scientific and local organizing committees of ILAS-2013, the annual meeting of the International Linear Algebra Society, to be held in Providence (RI) June 3-7. Annual ILAS meetings typically have over 300 participants. See the conference website for more information.
  • Professors Bill Abikoff, Rich Bass, and Changfeng Gui are in the inaugural list of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. The complete list is available here.
  • The Math Waiting List is set up for the spring semester. The Waiting List shows the current enrollment for each course and the number of students on the waiting list.
  • Milena Hering and Alexander Teplyaev have received a Supplemental NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant. This is the 5th year of the department's REU program. (August 2012)
  • Information about the department's 2012 REU program is here.
  • The Mathematics Department's Annual Awards Day took place Thursday, April 26 at 3:30 PM in IMS 20. Opening remarks were made by Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and the invited address after the ceremony was given by Michael Zieve (Univ. Michigan) on "Square Values of Polynomials."
  • The Thomas McCabe Lecture Series took place April 26th at 2:00 p.m. in IMS 20. The speaker was Ray Sidney, who talked on "Google's Early Days". Click for More Information
  • The Math Waiting List is set up for the fall semester. The Waiting List shows the current enrollment for each course and the number of students on the waiting list.
  • The annual Calculus Competition was held Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 7-9 PM in room 315 of the Mathematical Sciences Building.

    Cash and book prizes were awarded in three categories:
    • Beginner (roughly, through first-year calculus)
    • Intermediate (roughly, through multivariable calculus, beginning differential equations, and beginning linear algebra)
    • Over-all
    All undergraduates and E.O. Smith students taking math courses AT UCONN (not Co-op courses at E.O. Smith) are eligible to participate.

    Participants sign up on the sheet outside the Reception Office (MSB 102) by Monday March 19th, and should arrive at the competition by 6:50 PM. Questions may be addressed to Prof. S. J. Sidney, MSB 419b/c, 486-8380, sidney@math.uconn.edu.
  • Fabiana Cardetti received the 2011/12 Teaching Promise AAUP Excellence Award. (March 2012)
  • Emil Valdez has been awarded (along with his co-author Jed Frees of Wisconsin) the 2011 David Garrick Halmstad prize by the Actuarial Foundation for the best actuarial research published in 2010.
  • Arend Bayer is a recipient of a three-year grant "Wall-Crossing, stability conditions, and mirror symmetry," from the Algebra and Number Theory Program at the NSF.
  • Emil Valdez and his co-authors Andreas Tsanakas, Jan Dhaene and Steven Vanduffel have been awarded the the Lloyd's of London Science of Risk Prize in the category for Insurance Operations and Markets on November 24, 2011.
  • Dmitry Leykekhman organized a conference on the finite element method at the Avery Point campus during October 14-15, 2011. (October 2011)
  • Dmitry Leykekhman received an a NSF grant for three years, titled "Local properties of the finite element solutions to PDE constrained optimal control problems". (September 2011)
  • Fabiana Cardetti, in collaboration with Mary Truxaw and Megan Staples (Neag School of Education), has been awarded $381,130 by the State Department of Higher Education under the 2011 Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program. This grant will support the year-long project entitled: "UConn MLA: Mathematics Leadership Academy" to provide professional development in mathematics content and pedagogy for middle and high school mathematics teachers from across four public school districts in Connecticut. The program includes 12 credits of graduate coursework for participating teachers, as well as extensive school-based support for collaborative leadership activities related to mathematics education. (September 2011)
  • Charles Vinsonhaler along with co-authors John Clark and Kevin O'Meara had their book "Advanced Topics in Linear Algebra: Weaving Matrix Problems through the Weyr Form," published by Oxford University Press. (September 2011)
  • Richard Bass and Maria Gordina participated in the Foundations of Stochastic Analysis conference at the Banff International Research Station Sept. 18-23, which is in honor of Bass's 60th birthday. (September 2011)
  • Alexander Teplyaev has been awarded a three-year grant for research on "Random, Stochastic, and Self-Similar Equations." The grant will be funded by the Probability Program in the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences. (September 2011)
  • Fabiana Cardetti's work with the Math Leadership Academy is reported in the Hartford Courant. (August 2011)
  • William David (Dave) Lindsay, Jr. was recently awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for the 2011-12 academic year. The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate award for mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering majors.
    Lindsay is pursuing a dual major in Mathematics as well as Physiology and Neurobiology. He has been developing algebraic models, in an undergraduate thesis supervised by Math Professor Milena Hering, to support and develop the conceptual setting for his laboratory work on cells.

    We congratulate Dave on his accomplishment and look forward to sharing his future successes. (August 2011)
  • James William (Jim) Dunion, BS (May 1981), MS (December 1981), and former doctoral student in topology, died on July 30, 2011, two weeks before his 52nd birthday.
  • Alexander Teplyaev has received a Supplemental NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant (jointly with his Ph.D. student Dan Kelleher). This is the 4th year of the "Analysis, Probability and Mathematical Physics on Fractals" project. (August 2011)
  • On June 25th Jay Vadiveloo and Lu Ma were interviewed by Charles Wolfe on WPKN 89.5 FM about the risk management for small businesses initiative undertaken by the Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research. (June 2011)
  • MATHCONNections 2011 is now available. (June 2011)
  • Bernard Sippin '52 Scholarship Fund
    This year three UConn mathematics students, William David Lindsay, Jr., Aaron A. Nelson, and William C. Snider II, were chosen as recipients of the Bernard Sippin '52 Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to academically outstanding undergraduate students enrolled full time as a mathematics major (or intent to declare a major in mathematics) at the University of Connecticut. The selection committee chose those three recipients from a very impressive pool of applicants. Congratulations to all three winners for this well deserved honor. (May 2011)
  • Congratulations to three UConn mathematics students, William David Lindsay, Jr., Aaron A. Nelson, and William C. Snider II, who were chosen as recipients of the Bernard Sippin '52 Scholarship.
  • Mathematics Awards Day - Thursday April 14
  • Mathematics Department Awards Day and Distinguished Alumni Award. Thursday, April 14, 2011. 3:30 p.m. UTEB 150. Click for More Information
  • Thomas McCabe Visiting Fellowship in Entrepreneurship & Mathematical Sciences. Wednesday, April 13, 2011. 1:00 p.m. Konover Auditorium. Click for More Information
  • Alvaro Lozano-Robledo's book, "Elliptic Curves, Modular Forms and Their L-functions", has been published by the AMS. It may be ordered from the AMS by clicking here. (February 2011)
  • Elizabeth Glatt, who graduated from the department in 2009, obtained a tenure track position of Instructor of Mathematics at Norwalk Community College. (December 2010)
  • Greg Huber, who holds a joint appointment with the Center for Cell Analysis & Modelling at the UConn Health Center, was an organizer of this year's University of Indiana workshop on Biocomplexity December 3-5, 2010. The theme of the workshop is: "The Evolution of Cooperation: Paradoxes of Collectivity & Individuality". For more details, click here.
  • Milena Hering has been informed by the Algebra and Number Theory Program at the NSF that she will be receiving a 3-year NSF grant for her research on "Varieties with Torus Actions: Algebra and Combinatorics." (April 2010)
  • Arend Bayer is a recipient of an NSF grant "Wall-Crossing for Moduli Spaces of of Bridgeland-Stable Objects, Birational Geometry and Gromov-Witten Theory," 2008-2011. The grant from the Algebra and Number Theory Program was transferred to UConn on January 15, 2010.
  • The Hachemeister Prize Committee has awarded the 2010 Charles A. Hachemeister Prize to Edward W. Frees, Peng Shi, and Emiliano A. Valdez for their paper, "Actuarial Applications of a Hierarchical Insurance Claims Model." Click here for more information. (November 2010)
  • The Fall 2010 AGNES meeting was held at UConn September 24-26 2010, with about 120 participants. AGNES (Algebraic Geometry Northeastern Series) is a new series of weekend workshops in algebraic geometry held twice a year at universities in the Northeast.
  • Pavel Zhlobich, who will defend his thesis in November 2010, has accepted a Research Assistantship, equivalent to an American Postdoctoral Fellowship, in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland starting on January 1, 2011. He will join their Optimization group. Pavel's advisor was Professor Vadim Olshevsky. (September 2010)
  • The 2010 edition of MathConnections, the department's annual newsletter, is now available online. (August 2010)
  • The Probability, Combinatorics, and Foundations Program of the NSF informed Ralf Schiffler that it will fund him for the next three years to do research on his proposal "Cluster Algebras and Tilting Theory II." (May 2010)
  • The Probability, Combinatorics, and Foundations Program of the NSF informed Masha Gordina that it will fund her for the next three years to do research on her proposal "Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics." (May 2010)
  • Sixteen undergraduate math majors were elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are Antoni Brzoska, Levi Benjamin DeValve, Christopher D. Hickey, Cheryl Ann Holowienko, Lindsay Rose King, Kathleen Li, Dominick James Major, Tracy Anne Margiott, Christine Elizabeth McMeekin, Ashley Nicole Ruegg, Joshua Ryan Strupcewski, Acacia Lauren Wagner, Michelle Nevine Wahab, Cheri Lynn Wiggin, Besmir Xhurxhi and Yi Zhang. (April 2010)
  • Joseph Pomianowski, a 2009 graduate with a double major in Mathematics and Molecular and Cell Biology, has been awarded a 2010-2011 Fulbright Fellowship to Poland, where he will study the life of Stefan Banach. Joseph has just completed an MA in the History of Science at Harvard. (August 2010)
  • The Department hosted a "Workshop on Creativity and Talent" honoring Stuart Sidney's life work of promoting creativity and potentials in students on July 27, 2010. For more details and videos of the proceedings, click here.
  • Mark Naigles has been awarded the Institute of Teaching and Learning 2010-2011 Outstanding Adjunct Award at its Instructional Excellence Recognition Dinner. (April 2010)
  • Emiliano Valdez has been appointed Associate Editor of "Insurance: Mathematics and Economics Journal," the most highly regarded in the fields of actuarial science and insurance, and to the Editorial Board "Insurance Markets and Companies: Analyses and Actuarial Computations." (May 2010)
  • Sarah Glaz was awarded a 2010 Faculty Small Grant from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research for her proposal Sabbatical Research Collaboration on Prufer-Like Conditions in Commutative Rings. (April 2010)
  • The Mathematics Department's Annual Awards Day took place Monday, April 12. Opening remarks were made by Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and the invited address after the ceremony was given by Steve Miller (Williams) "Pythagoras at the Bat: An Introduction to Statistics and Modeling." Click here for the program and list of honorees.
  • Fabiana Cardetti and Amit Savkar are the recipients of the 2010 Provost's General Education and Course Enhancement Competition grant for their proposal: "Pedagogy in Large Lectures." Their research will focus on Mathematics 1131 - Calculus I. (April 2010)
  • Two UConn students did well on the annual Putnam exam. For details, click here.
  • Alexander Teplyaev has received a Supplemental NSF REU grant to research with undergraduates students in the area of "Analysis on Fractals". This is the 3rd year of a joint project with Sasha's PhD student Ben Steinhurst. (March 2010)
  • Dr. Marius Ionescu, one of our Postdoctoral Fellows, has received and accepted a tenure track position at Colgate University in New York. (March 2010)
  • Miki Neumann has been selected as the first Stuart and Joan Sidney Professor of Mathematics. The professorship was established with a gift from the four children of Stuart, a recently retired professor in the Mathematics Department, and Joan, a poet, writer-in-residence and special research associate at UConn's Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. (February 2010)
  • Sarah Glaz has received a grant from GNSAGA-INdAM, the Italian government agency awarding grants in mathematics, to support her visiting professorship and research in algebra at the University of Rome Tre. During her visit, Glaz will participate in a special semester on Commutative Algebra, where she will give a series of lectures. (February 2010)
  • The Society of Actuaries, the top professional organization of life actuaries in the US, has recognized the department's Actuarial Science Program as a Center of Actuarial Excellence. The recognition is initially for 5 years, ending on December 31, 2014.
    The recognition makes the department eligible to compete for substantial education and research grants to enhance the program, research in actuarial science and the profession. It also means the department will be promoted on the SOA's web site.
    This recognition will make the department's already strong actuarial science program even stronger and allow it to become a magnet for attracting even better students for both its undergraduate and graduate components.
    Department Head Miki Neumann has expressed his appreciation to the present actuarial science program faculty, Michael Braunstein, Jim Bridgeman, Jim Trimble, Jay Vadiveloo, and Emil Valdez, for bringing bringing the department this honor, as well as former, now retired faculty Louis Lombardi, Richard London, Walt Lowerie and Chuck Vinsonhaler whose hard work for many years brought the department to this point.
    Neumann has also thanked Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and Frank Gifford, Director of Development at CLAS, for their strong support of the program and their help during the visitation of the CAE Evaluation Committee, along with the faculty and graduate and undergraduate students who participated in the visitation and helped demonstrate the vibrancy of the program. (November 2009)
  • Family Honors Parents with Math Professorship: UConn Today published a feature about the Stuart and Joan Sidney Professorship in Mathematics endowed by their four children.
  • Math Major Forms are now online. New and current majors can use them to choose advisors and carry out other administrative tasks. (October, 2009)
  • ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SEVENTIETH ANNUAL WILLIAM LOWELL PUTNAM MATHEMATICAL COMPETITION

    Students who enjoy mathematics might like to participate in this year's Putnam competition. The national competitive examination will be given on Saturday 5 December, as usual in two parts: the first half (six problems) from 10 am to 1 pm, the second half (also six problems) from 3 pm to 6 pm. Here at UConn it will be administered in room 118 of the Mathematical Sciences Building.

    The Putnam exam consists of a dozen interesting and challenging problems. Typically, over 3,000 students from over 400 colleges and universities participate in the competition. Individual and team prizes are awarded nationally, and here at UConn we give prizes to our students who perform well on the Putnam.

    Some of the problems can be done with no post-secondary background whatsoever, but that doesn't make them easy, no matter how much math you've taken. At UConn most of us stay over the two-hour break between halves, chatting about the morning problems over pizza and soft drinks supplied by the Math Department. A good time is had by all; even those who eventually score few points enjoy coming to grips with some of the Putnam problems.

    All enrolled undergraduates who have not yet received a college degree and have not yet taken four Putnam exams are eligible. Interested students should sign up on a sign-up sheet that has been posted outside the Math Department receptionist's office (MSB 102) by Thursday 8 October 2008.

    There is much information available online about the competition and its history. In particular, many past exams and solutions can be found in the William Lowell Putnam Competition Archive. Also, late each year the results, problems and solutions of the previous December's competition are published in the American Mathematical Monthly, available in the Mathematics Department reading room.

    The following is quoted verbatim from this year's national Putnam announcement:

    Students who for religious reasons cannot take the examination at the scheduled hours may take the examination after sundown on December 5, upon request by the supervisor and approval of the Director. Such students must remain under the supervision of a faculty member, rabbi, or clergyman from the official starting time for that time zone on the day of the examination.

    Further information can be obtained from Professor S. J. Sidney, MSB 419b/c, 486-8380, sidney@math.uconn.edu. (September 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 Kosciuszko fellowship 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.
  • Upendra Prasad has accepted the position of a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics at the University of California in Davis. (July 2009)
  • Craig Miller has accepted the position of a Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. (July 2009)
  • Oscar Levin has accepted the position of a Visting Assistant Professor in Mathematics at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. (July 2009)
  • Mathematics Department graduate students, APR's and Postdocs have obtained the following positions for the academic year beginning in the fall of 2009.
    • Matthew Cecil: Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
    • Yang Ho Choi: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Kettering University in Michigan.
    • Lin Ge: Instructor at the Mississippi State University, Meridian Campus.
    • Matt Jura: Visiting Assistant Professor at Manhattan College, in the Bronx.
    • Tyler Markkanen: Tenure Track Assistant Professor at Saint Mary of the Wood College in Terre Haute, Indiana.
    • Russell Prime: Visiting Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.
    • Kristen Sellke: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at St Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota.
    • Robert Wooster: Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
  • Milena Hering has been awarded the Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellowship to spend a total of 3 months, this summer and next, doing research at the Oberwolfach Mathematics Institute in Germany. (May 2009)
  • The Board of Trustees has awarded tenure to Keith Conrad and Xiaodong Yan and promoted both to Associate Professor as of the beginning of the next academic year. (April 2009)
  • Christine McMeekin is receiving an Oaklawn Scholarship for 2009-2010. This award is based on academic excellence and leadership. Read more about it on the Honors Program's web site. (April 2009)
  • Eleven undergraduate math majors were elected on April 7, 2009 to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are Yi-Jun Chen, Jason Michael Crowley, Ryan James Esplin, Eric John Forfa, Nicole Lynn Gottier, Caroline Truc Lam, Thomas D. Murawski, Russell G. Nash, Andrew Nelson Phillips, Joseph Alexander Pomianowski, and Linda Tran. They will be initiated into the Society on Sunday, May 3. (April 2009)
  • Graduate student and Teaching Assistant Elizabeth Glatt will be receiving a letter from the coach of the UConn Softball Team with the following message of thanks: "On behalf of the entire softball program, I thank you for your efforts in supporting our student-athletes achieve both academic and athletic success." Glatt teaches Math 1011Q, and was nominated for this honor by a student in her class. (April 2009)
  • Professor David Gross will be receiving the UConn Early College Experience Program's "Faculty Coordinator Award for Excellence in Curriculum & Adjunct Faculty Development." (April 2009)
  • Professor Alvaro Lozano-Robledo won the 2009 Provost's Competition for his proposal "Math 1132Q Calculus II." (April 2009)
  • Professors David Gross and Jeffrey Tollefson won the 2009 Provost's Competition for their proposal "Math 1131Q Calculus I." (April 2009)
  • Oscar Levin has won the Institute of Teaching and Learning (ITL) Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award for 2009 in recognition of his deep commitment and wide range activities in the service of the Mathematics Department's teaching mission.
    The ITL Outstanding TA Award, established in 1999, is the highest teaching award conferred by the university on a graduate student. Oscar Levin is the third mathematics TA to receive this honor. The previous winners from our department were Regina Speicher in 2004, and Jason Molitierno in 2000. (April 2009)
  • Three UConn students do well in the Putnam. Read Report.
  • Professor Stuart J. Sidney has been appointed as a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (CAAS).
    The induction ceremony will be on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at 4:00 pm., preceding the CAAS monthly meeting, with the location and program for the meeting yet to be announced. (March, 2009)
  • The Mathematics Department's Annual Awards Day was held Thursday, April 16. Opening remarks were made by Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and the invited address was given by Jennifer Beineke, Western New England College, "Great Moments of the Riemann Zeta-Function."
    Click Here for the schedule and a list of awardees.
  • Professor Masha Gordina has been awarded the Ruth J. Michler Memorial Prize by the AWM - the Association for Women in Mathematics.
    This national prize, which awards its recipient a fellowship to spend a semester in the Mathematics Department in Cornell without teaching obligations, is a recognition of Masha's excellence in research and professional activities.
    On February 6, 2009, the AWM released this announcement.
    More details about the prize can be found at <www.awm-math.org/michlerprize.html> and an article published in the UConn Advance. (February 2009)
  • Professor Sarah Glaz will perform a poetry reading at the UConn Co-op Thursday, February 12 at 4:00 p.m. Professor Glaz will be reading from the poetry anthology Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, which she co-edited with JoAnne Growney. (January 2009)
  • Eugene Boman has won the MAA's Allendoerfer Award for the expository paper "Mom! There's an Astroid in My Closet!" which appeared in the Mathematics Magazine April 2007 issue (Vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 104-111). The paper was written jointly with Richard Brazier and Derek Seiple.
    Eugene graduated from UConn in 1993 and was one of Izzi Koltracht's first Ph.D. students.
    He is currently Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University in Harrisburg. (January 2009)
  • Help the Mathematics Department meet the challenges posed by Connecticut's budget deficit. Click here to contribute to one of the funds supporting the activities of the Department.
  • Professor Emeritus Charles Vinsonhaler has been appointed Associate Director of the Teachers for a New Era (TNE) initiative. (November 2008)
  • Professor Tom Defranco has been appointed Dean of the Neag School of Education. His appointment will start on July 1, 2009.
  • High Level Courses for mathematics majors for the Spring 2009 semester.
  • The sixty-ninth annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition will be held Saturday, December 6 in MSB 118. For more information, click here or contact Professor Stuart Sidney.
  • Hailin Sang (Ph.D. 2008) has been appointed to a two-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati. (August 2008)
  • Wolodymyr Madych is the recipient of the UConn Alumni Association 2008 Faculty Excellence Award in Research (Sciences). (August 2008)
  • Emiliano Valdez was notified that a proposal, in which he is one of seven Principal Investigators, will be funded by the Australian Research Council.
  • Joseph Pomianowski, an undergraduate student, has received an award from the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute to travel to Poland to research - under supervision of Stuart Sidney - the life of Stefan Banach.
  • Dmitriy Leykekhman will receive NSF funding for his research proposal "Discontinuous galerkin methods for optimal control problems governed by Advection-Diffusion Equations" for a period of three years. (July 2008)
  • Lisa Termine has been appointed to the position of Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College in Hartford. (April 2008)
  • Results are in for the Spring 2008 Calculus Competition.
  • Tom Bella, currently completing his Ph.D. under Vadim Olshevsky, has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. (March 2008)
  • Thomas DeFranco is the recipient of the 2008 AAUP Excellence Award in Teaching Innovation. (March 2008)
  • Alexander Teplyaev has been awarded a three year grant for research on "Random, Stochastic, and Self-similar Equations." The grant will be funded jointly by the Probability and Analysis Programs in the Division of Mathematical Sciences. (March 2008)
  • Adam Bowers, former PhD student and currently Assistant Professor in Residence, will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mathematics Department of the University of Missouri at Columbia. (March 2008)
  • Richard Nickl, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow, has accepted a Tenured Lecturer Position in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics of Cambridge University in England. (March 2008)
  • New Course Numbering System ordered by either OLD or NEW course numbers.
  • Israel Koltracht, 1949-2008: Our friend and colleague Professor Israel Koltracht, a member of the department for more than 20 years, passed away. (February, 2008)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow Matthew Cecil was honored by the UConn Alpha Lambda Delta chapter as Instructor of the Year for 2007/08.
    The Alpha Lambda Delta is an honor society for first year students. (February 2008)
  • Evarist Gine has been chosen to receive one of the Provost's Research Excellence Awards this year. (February 2008)
  • Richard Bass has been designated a University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor. (January 2008)
  • Vadim Olshevsky has been appointed to the editorial board of the journal of Linear and Multilinear Algbera for a period of five years. Olshevsky is also on the editorial board of four other publications: Linear Algebra and its Applications, Integral Equations and Operator Theory, ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, and the Birkhauser book series on Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. (December 2007)
  • Richard Bass has been appointed to be the next editor for the fields of Probability and Statistics of the prestigious journal Transactions and Memoirs of the AMS. His tenure as editor begins on February of 2008. (September 2007)
  • Alexander Teplyaev has been awarded in the prestigious Humboldt Foundation Fellowship to work on "Stochastic and self-similar equations" with Professor M. Rockner of the University of Bielefeld. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly qualified, early-stageresearchers from abroad, who hold doctorates, to carry out research projectsof their own choice in Germany. (July 2007)
  • Sarah Glaz has been chosen by the Institute of Teaching and Learning as 2007-2008 University Teaching Fellow. (April 2007)
  • Louis Lombardi, Director of the Actuarial Science Program, has been chosen as the Honors Council Faculty Member of the Year for 2007. (April 2007)
  • Changfeng Gui is the recipient of the 2007 Provost Research Excellence Award. (April 2007)
  • Two juniors and nine seniors from the Mathematics Department were invited to join Phi Beta Kappa. (April 2007)
  • Masha Gordina, Ralph Kaufmann, and Reed Solomon earned tenure and have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. (April 2007)
  • Bill Abikoff received a grant from the Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics Program at the NSF to support the Lars Ahlfors Centennial Celebration in Helsinki, Finland, on August 20-24, 2007. (March 2007)
  • Masha Gordina has been awarded a three year grant by the Probability Program, within the Division of Mathematical Sciences of NSF to work on her proposal "Infinite-dimensional stochastic analysis."(March 2007)
  • Miki Neumann, professor and head of the mathematics department, was named Distinguished Professor by the Board of Trustees on January 30, 2007.
  • The Mathematics Department will host the Abelian Groups and Modules over Commutative Rings Conference June 11-15, 2007. Sarah Glaz, Chuck Vinsonhaler and Bill Wickless were awarded a grant from the Mathematical Sciences Division of the NSA, for the organization of the conference.
  • Tara Holm has been awarded a three year grant by the Geometric Analysis Program, within the Division of Mathematical Sciences of NSF to work on her proposal "The Geometry, Topology, and Combinatorics of Hamiltonian Lie Group Actions." (July 2006)
  • Miki Neumann has been awarded a two year grant, beginning in 2007, by the Mathematical Sciences Program at the NSA for his proposal "Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, Applications, and the Inverse Eigenvalue Problem for Nonnegative Matrices." (June 2006)
  • The Department's Annual Awards Day Ceremony was held on Wednesday, April 18 and many outstanding students were honored.
  • The Mathematics Department presented its first Distinguished Alumni Award to Professor Richard A. Brualdi on Thursday, March 29, 2007. The festivities included a special colloquium presented by Professor Brualdi, followed by a reception in the Math Lounge and dinner at the Alumni Center.
  • Annual Calculus Competition — UConn's annual Calculus Competition was held the evening of Monday, March 26, 2007. Twenty-two students participated and the competition was both fierce and at a high level.
  • Joe Miller has received a 3 year NSF grant from the Algebra, Number Theory,Combinatorics and Foundations Programs within the Division of Mathematical Sciences. Joe's proposed research is on "Randomness and Computability." (July 2006)
  • Keith Conrad and Reed Solomon have been awarded the 2005/06 Teaching Promise AAUP Excellence Award. (July 2006)
  • Richard Bass has been awarded a 3 year grant from the Probability and Statistics Program, within the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the NSF, to work on his proposal "Analysis of multidimensional processes." (July 2006)
  • Slate.com: "The place in America where one has the smallest chance of being killed by nature is Storrs." Slate Article — Journal Inquirer Summary