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Math Major Glenn Bruda Named 2025 Goldwater Scholar

We are thrilled to announce that Glenn Bruda, a third-year mathematics major at the University of Florida, has been selected as a 2025 Goldwater Scholar. This prestigious national scholarship recognizes outstanding undergraduate students in STEM fields who are committed to research-focused careers. At UF, Glenn has made remarkable contributions both in and outside the classroom. […]

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Undergraduate math majors published in Math Horizons

Undergraduate math majors Aidan Bryant and Aryan Tiwari published an article in the April 2025 edition of Math Horizons, an undergraduate magazine of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA): Aidan Bryant and Aryan Tiwari (2025) SCUDEM Competition, Math Horizons, 32:4, 20-21, DOI: 10.1080/10724117.2025.2456442 They discuss their experience competing and earning top honors in the SIMIODE […]

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Professor Mike Jury Awarded UFRF Professorship

Congratulations to Dr. Mike Jury on being awarded a University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorship for the 2025–2028 term. This prestigious award recognizes faculty who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship and are expected to continue making significant contributions to their field. We are proud to celebrate Dr. Jury’s outstanding achievements […]

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Remembering David Drake (1937–2025)

The Department of Mathematics mourns the passing of Professor David Drake, a distinguished mathematician, former department chair, and valued colleague, who passed away on February 14, 2025, at the age of 87. Dr. Drake joined the UF Mathematics Department in 1967 and served for 40 years, retiring in 2007. He was department chair from 1988 to 1993, a period during which he played a crucial role […]

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Professor Bubenik to Give Invited Address at AMS Meeting

Professor Peter Bubenik has been invited to give an Invited Address at the 2025 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The meeting will take place on March 8-9, 2025, at Clemson University in Clemson, SC. Professor Bubenik’s talk, titled “Topological Data Analysis: from geometry, algebra and combinatorics to analysis, learning and applications,” […]

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Graduate Student Wanchen Zhao Wins Best Poster Award at JMM

The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that our graduate student, Wanchen Zhao (advisor: Prof. Peter Bubenik), was recognized for her poster presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) during the AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) Poster Session. Her poster, titled “Wasserstein Stability for Persistence Landscapes,” received the Best Poster Award. We congratulate […]

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Students Dario Teran Acaro and Rishabh Sarma, and Faculty Chamila Gamage Honored with Awards

Congratulations to our graduate students Dario Teran Acaro (supervised by Dr. Richard Crew) and Rishabh Sarma (supervised by Dr. Frank Garvan), who have been awarded the prestigious CLAS Dissertation Fellowship funded by the Kenneth and Janet Keene Endowed Fellowship in the Mathematical Sciences. Each student will receive $8,000 to support their research during the Summer […]

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