It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our esteemed colleague, Professor Yuli Rudyak. Professor Rudyak was a distinguished mathematician whose contributions to algebraic topology and symplectic topology have left a lasting impact on the field. His work, recognized and respected worldwide, has significantly influenced both his students and peers. Professor Rudyak […]
The Mathematics Department at the University of Florida is pleased to welcome Dr. Eric Evert, who specializes in functional analysis and multilinear algebra, as an Assistant Professor, and Dr. Jesse Kim, who specializes in algebraic combinatorics, as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Both joined us in Fall 2024.
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Professor Calistus Ngonghala has been named a Harvard Radcliffe Fellow for the 2024-25 academic year. This prestigious fellowship, awarded to just 3.3 percent of applicants this year, is part of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s historic 25th anniversary class. The program annually selects and supports exceptional artists, scholars, and public intellectuals who have demonstrated both a […]
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Professor Calistus Ngonghala has been awarded an NSF grant titled “eMB: Collaborative Research: Integrated Hybrid Mathematical Modeling for Schistosomiasis Elimination,” starting September 1, 2024. This project is a collaboration amongst the University of Florida (Gainesville), the University of Georgia (Athens), and the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). Schistosomiasis, a disease caused by parasitic worms and transmitted […]
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Professor Vincent Vatter has been awarded a grant from the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education for his project, “Artificial Intelligence for Humanizing and Enhancing the Learning of Proofs,” starting August 1, 2024. This project will explore how AI can improve undergraduate students’ proof-writing skills. As part of the Level II IUSE Engaged Student Learning track, […]
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Professor Jindrich Zapletal has been awarded an NSF grant titled “Choiceless set theory,” starting May 1, 2024. The project studies set theory without the axiom of choice. The axiom of choice is known for providing objects which are central to mathematical theory yet are impossible to directly construct, such as ultrafilters on natural numbers. The […]
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UF Students Recognized at 2024 Mathematical Contest in Modeling Five teams containing a total of 15 UF undergraduate students participated in the 2024 COMAP Mathematical/Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM) held February 1-5. Each team was designated as a “Successful Participant.” Two of the teams worked on the Resource Availability and Sex Ratios problem, one team worked on […]
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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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