Our Office manager Margaret Somers was a winner of a University Superior Achievement Award in the category of Office Administration, Human Resources & IT. Her citation read in part: “Margaret’s energy and passion for performing her administrative responsibilities in her high-volume home unit (Math) are admirable in their own right. That she has been able […]
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Five teams of containing a total of 14 UF undergraduate students participated in the 2023 COMAP Mathematical/Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM) held February 16-20. Each team was designated as a “Successful Participant.” Four of the teams worked on the “Predicting Wordle Results” problem and one team worked on the “Prioritizing the UN Sustainability Goals” problem. […]
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Distinguished Professor Dranishnikov spoke on “Moving manifolds in the Gromov-Hausdorff space” at the Topology Workshop in the Negev which took place at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel on June 26, 2023. The Conference focused on Dimension in Topology and consisted of 4 major lectures.
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The conference “Surfaces in Banyuls” will be “on the occasion of Prof. Phil Boyland’s 70th birthday”. The conference is a natural sequel to Surfaces in Montevideo (2012), Surfaces in Sao Paulo (2014), Surfaces in Luminy (2016) and Surfaces in Bedlewo (2018). The study of dynamical systems on surfaces goes back to Poincaré and Birkhoff, with […]
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Two University of Florida teams of undergraduate students have received Meritorious Awards for their participation in the SIMIODE Challenge Using Differential Equations Modeling (SCUDEM) VII, held in the fall of 2022. The SCUDEM VII is a three-week challenge for undergraduate and high school students, focused on addressing real-world scenarios using the power of mathematics. This […]
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We are pleased to announce that SASTRA University will be conferring the Doctor of Sciences (honoris causa) to Prof. Krishna Alladi in recognition of his outstanding research, achievements and contributions in the field of mathematics. The Doctor of Sciences (honoris causa) will be presented during the XXXVI Convocation to be held in SASTRA’s Thanjavur campus […]
Dr. Maryam Yashtini got her PhD at UF in 2014. After graduating she was a postdoc at Georgia Tech and now is an assistant professor at Georgetown University. Through the development of practical algorithms, Yashtini’s research helps solve problems that arise from image processing and machine learning applications, such as medical image reconstruction and image […]
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We are pleased to announce that Prof. Nan Jiang has received the prestigious National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER). She joins other current Math Department award winners of this five year award Sara Pollock , Chunmei Wang and Dana Bartosova and past recipient Libin Rong. The CAREER awards support junior faculty “who […]
Fifteen students from the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences split into five teams to compete in an international math modeling competition held in February. All five UF teams were recognized for their successful solutions, and one was further honored with an honorable mention by the judges. Hosted by the Consortium for […]
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We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dana Bartosova has received the prestigious National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER). She joins other current Math Department award winners of this five year award Sara Pollock and Chunmei Wang and past recipient Libin Rong. The CAREER awards support junior faculty “who have the potential […]