mathematics

Nick Gurski, assistant professor of mathematics, has been appointed as a founding editor of the new journal Compositionality, named after the principle that describes and quantifies how complex things can be assembled out of simpler parts. The open-access journal will feature research using composi...

Elisabeth Werner, professor in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Bo’az Klartag, professor of mathematics at the Weizmann Institute and Tel Aviv University, wrote a review article titled “Some open problems in asymptotic geometric analysis” for Notices of the Ameri...

Elizabeth Meckes and Mark Meckes, professors in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, published Linear Algebra, a textbook written with a focus on student accessibility, with Cambridge University Press. View the textbook at cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/mathematics...

Elizabeth Meckes, associate professor of mathematics, spoke about "Random matrices with prescribed eigenvalues" at the Finger Lakes Probability Seminar in Rochester, New York, in April. See more information....

Elisabeth Werner, professor of mathematics, will teach a weeklong course on "Floating bodies and affine invariants" at Goethe University Frankfurt from Monday, July 2, to Friday, July 6. Course topics will include floating bodies, affine surface area and approximation of convex bodies by polytopes. ...

Ondrej Maxian, an undergraduate student studying applied mathematics and chemical engineering, received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Using this funding, he will pursue a PhD in applied mathematics at New York University after graduating from Case Western Reserve Univer...

Mathematics Professor Elisabeth Werner organized a workshop on "Emerging Trends in Geometric Functional Analysis" to be held at Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The workshop will take place Monday, March 26, through Friday, March 30. See more information....

The American Statistical Association’s (ASA) DataFest is a celebration of data in which teams of undergraduate students work around the clock to find and share meaning in a large, rich and complex data set. The event is hackathon-style and will take place Friday, April 13, through Sunday, April 15, ...

For mathematicians, getting to the “aha” moment can be a frustrating exercise. But in a field where it’s common to be wrong, Elizabeth Meckes has found passion. And those times when everything does align, she said, are “beautiful.” “Those moments of clarity—those moments of ‘I suddenly see the ligh...