TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama held its winter commencement exercises December 10th at Coleman Coliseum on the UA campus. The ceremony webcast was archived at ua.edu/commencement/, and it will be available for viewing for 30 days following the ceremony. Congratulations go out to Keisha Cook (pictured) and Sheik Ahmed Ullah who were awarded the Master’s […]
Read MoreDr. Alejandro Aceves, Chair of the Southern Methodist University’s Department of Mathematics, and Dr. Rodolfo Torres, University Distinguished Professor from the University of Kansas Department of Mathematics, recently visited Tuscaloosa to conduct an external review of the UA Department of Mathematics.
Read MoreA Milestone Luncheon was held on September 28, 2016 at the Bryant Conference Center to honor faculty members who have reached 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 and 45 years of service to The University of Alabama. Among the honorees were several Department of Mathematics faculty members: 10 Year Honoree Jim Gleason, Associate Professor […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Lingxue Song for successfully defending her Master of Arts thesis, which was entitled “Modeling the RMB exchange rate volatility using ARCH/GARCH models”.
Read MoreDavid Cruz-Uribe served as the Opponent for Olli Tapiola’s dissertation defense at the University of Helsinki in Finland, May 2016. Pictured from left to right are Tuomas Hytonen, the Custos (dissertation advsior); Olli Tapiola, the Candidate, and David Cruz-Uribe, the Opponent.
Read MoreDr. Kabe Moen’s proposal entitled “Weighted estimates in harmonic analysis and PDE” has been selected for funding by the Simons Foundation’s Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians. According to their website, the Simons Foundation exists to support discovery-driven scientific research, undertaken in pursuit of understanding the phenomena of our world. The foundation’s support of scientists generally takes […]
Read MoreAlex Mathers, an undergraduate student double majoring in Mathematics and Physics, has been accepted into the prestigious Math in Moscow study abroad program for the Fall 2016 semester. Alex will spend 15 weeks studying Mathematics in a research-oriented curriculum. More information about the program can be found on their website at www.mccme.ru/.
Read MoreThree math majors won a Kindle Fire simply by donating to the Rising Tide Scholarship. Another drawing will be held later in the year for two box seats to the 2016 Alabama versus Kent State football game. For more information, contact Allison Verhine, Director of College Relations, at 205-348-7009.
Read MoreThe Math Research Communities Program has selected graduate student Huy Duc Vo to participate in the MRC3 – Mathematics in Physiology and Medicine Conference, June 19-25, 2016, in Snowbird, Utah. The MRC program was developed by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) to help graduate students and recent PhD’s launch their careers by mentoring them and […]
Read MoreFrom the March 2016 Desktop News | Scholarships Matter is a series of stories highlighting students in the College of Arts and Sciences who have received and been impacted by scholarships. The student featured in this story is the recipient of three university-wide scholarships and two College-wide scholarships, the Outstanding Junior Award and the Comer Foundation […]
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