The Putnam Exam is a national mathematics exam, taken by college and university students in the United States and Canada each December. Only the very best students from each school participate, and it is an honor to be chosen to compete in the Putnam. Six problems are presented in the morning three-hour session and six […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Jim Gleason and Martha Makowski for being awarded an NSF grant for a project entitled A-PLUS in Math: Alabama’s Practitioner Leaders in Underserved Schools in Mathematics. This Researcher-Practitioner Partnership modeled project is being established to work with and develop Mathematics Teacher Leaders who will impact students, teachers, teacher candidates, and schools across the […]
Read MoreOn Friday, November 30, 2018, Alexey Karapetyants gave a talk entitled “On some Bergman type spaces of functions of nonstandard growth and related questions” to the UA Department of Mathematics faculty and graduate students. This talk was funded by the Fulbright Foundation through their Outreach Lecturing Fund.
Read MoreFrom the October 2018 Desktop News | Drs. Shibin Dai and Shan Zhao recently received two grants, worth more than $300,000, from the National Science Foundation to fund their research in applied mathematics. To top it off, the two are serving on the organizing committee for the 2019 international National Science Foundation conference on mathematical molecular bioscience […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Dr. Shibin Dai, who has been awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation. NSF DMS-1815746: Complex amphiphilic structures and the functionality of biomaterials, 2018-2021, total amount: $217,087 (PI). NSF DMS-1802863: Degenerate diffusion in complex amphiphilic network structures, 2017-2019, total amount $86,170 (PI). This is a transfer of DMS-1411438.
Read MoreCongratulations to Professor Shan Zhao who has been awarded NSF funding for two research projects. NSF DMS Mathematical Biology program: DMS-1812930, “Collaborative Research: A regularized Poisson Boltzmann model for fast computation of the ensemble average polar solvation energy”, PI: Shan Zhao, $230,000, 08/15/2018 – 7/31/2021. See the link: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1812930&HistoricalAwards=false NSF DMS CBMS Conference program: DMS-1836318, […]
Read MoreDr. William T. Trotter visited Tuscaloosa on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 to present a colloquium talk entiled “Dimension Theory for Posets – Graph Theory for Grown Ups”. Dr. Trotter is a well-known mathematician, and is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Trotter obtained his PhD from the University of […]
Read MoreFrom the August 2018 Desktop News | As students explore campus this fall, they will notice Woods Quad’s newest resident: a 14-foot-tall, 1,500-pound white sculpture. Borromeo Rings The sculpture, created by studio art minor Paget Kern, is the result of a collaboration between the art and math departments in an effort to display math more visually on […]
Read MoreOn Saturday, August 11, a gathering of mathematicians was held to celebrate Dean Robert Olin’s 70th birthday. Here he is pictured with former colleagues and his graduate students. First row: Bob Olin Second row (left to right): Jiann-Shium Huang (PhD student), Len Miller (PhD student), Vivien Miller, Xiaoguang Li (PhD student) […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Marcia Black on her 20 year service anniversary. UA President Dr. Stuart Bell hired Marcia in 1998 while he was serving as the Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Luckily for us, she joined the Math Department staff in 2005.
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