UF Students Recognized at International Mathematical Modeling Contest

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. […]

Prof. Dranishnikov plenary address at Topology Workshop in the Negev

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.

Conference to honor Prof. Boyland’s 70th birthday

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 […]

UF Students Earn Honors at International Math Challenge

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 […]

Prof. Alladi awarded honorary doctorate

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 […]

PhD alumni Maryam Yashtini improves MRI efficiency

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 […]

Prof. Jiang receives NSF CAREER award

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 […]

Mathematics Students Recognized at International Competition

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 […]

Prof. Bartosova receives NSF CAREER award

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 […]

Math major Muhammad Abdulla awarded NSF graduate fellowship

We are pleased to announce that our Math major Muhammad Abdulla was awarded an NSF graduate research fellowship. Muhammad did an internship in his senior year at the National Institute of Health with Dr. Jeffrey Smith studying networks of respiratory neurons, and a research project in his junior year with Dr. Tracy Stepien on a […]

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