Department of Mathematics

Departmental News Archives

Apr 14-15, 2012: The department hosts the Conference on Mathematical Ecology.
Jan 27-29, 2012: The department hosts the 14th Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.
Nov 17, 2011:Math Day 2011
Jul 19, 2011: Derrick Stolee was awarded a 2011-12 Presidential Graduate Fellowship by the University of Nebraska.
Oct 14-16, 2011: The department hosts AMS Fall 2011 Central Section Meeting.
Feb 16, 2011: The Department of Mathematics is proud to announce that Professor Carina Curto has been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for her research in the field of mathematical neuroscience.
Feb 11, 2011: Congratulations to math major Zach Norwood as the first UNL student, and one of just 30 in the US, to win the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
Feb 2, 2011: The Math Department's Jim Lewis is featured as a Arts & Sciences Academic Star
Dec 13, 2010: Check out the department's Winter 2010 Newsletter.
Nov 18, 2010: The Department is delighted to announce that Professor Jim Lewis has been named Nebraska Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The award is part of the U.S. Professors of the Year Awards Program, which recognizes dedicated educators who have had a profound impact on the lives of students and contributed significantly to undergraduate education. To read the full UNL Announcement, click here.
Nov 9, 2010: The 21st Annual UNL Math Day was held at the UNL City Campus Union. To see the results from the day's competitions, click here.
Aug 13, 2010: The Department of Mathematics faculty Jim Lewis and Ira Papick are PI's on a $3,000,000 grant awarded by the National Science Foundation for the NebraskaNOYCE project. Jim Lewis is lead PI on this project, which partners with OPS, LPS, GIPS and the ESU Coordinating Council to bring a Master Teacher Fellow (MTF) program to high-need Nebraska schools. The project will initiate both a Master Teacher Fellow for current Nebraska math teachers with master's degrees and a Teacher Fellows program, a 14-month post-baccalaureate certification program for new secondary math teachers. For more information, visit UNL's NebraskaNOYCE page.
Apr 27, 2010: More than 100 undergraduates and 70 graduate students in UNL's Department of Mathematics were honored at the 11th Annual Mathematics Recognition Dinner. Presenters were undergraduate adviser Gordon Woodward, graduate adviser Judy Walker and department chair John Meakin. For a summary of the evening, click here.
Apr 8, 2010: The team representing UNL in the 2010 Mathematical Competition in Modeling received Honorable Mention.
- UNL's team consisted of Ryan Hotovy, Corey Stone and Pete Schlette.
- 2,254 teams participated, of which, 358 were U.S. teams (16%) and 1,890 were Foreign teams (84%)
- 9 Outstanding Winners (1/2%) and 12 Finalists (1/2%)
- 431 Meritorious Winners (19%) and 542 Honorable Mentions (24%)
- For complete results, click here.
Congratulations to Ryan, Corey and Pete!
Mar 24, 2010: Nine students represented UNL in the 70th Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition.
- The students participating in the exam (on December 5, 2009) were Robert Brase, Jay Cummings, Nicole Gaswisk, Frank Lee, Keler Marku, Zach Norwood, Devor O'Connor, Corey Stone and Jacob Williams.
- Nationally, there were 4,036 contestants from 546 institutions. Among those were 439 institutions with a team of 3 designated students.
- The UNL Team (3 designated students: Robert Brase, Keler Marku and Zach Norwood) had a combined Team Score of 80, with a National Team Rank of 80th.
- Robert Brase received Honorable Mention, meaning that he was among the top 81 ranking participants nationally. This is possibly the highest rank ever achieved by a UNL student on the Putnam.
- Three other students scored in the top 25% nationally.
Congratulations to all the students and to Mikil Foss and Vladimir Itskov, who helped prepare the students. For more information on the competition and to see on-line statements of the problems, click here.
Feb 18-22, 2010: The Department of Mathematics sponsored a team of three students to participate in the Annual Mathematical Modeling Competition (MCM). The students were Ryan Hotovy, Peter Schlette and Corey Stone. For four days they worked on one of the mathematical modeling problems posted by MCM (both problems are posted on the MCM website). The results will be posted April 15, 2010, on the MCM website. For more information about participating in this competition, please contact the MCM Faculty Advisors, Stephen Hartke and Petronela Radu.
Nov 12, 2009: The 20th Annual UNL Math Day was held at the UNL City Campus Union. To see the results from the day's competitions, click here.
Apr 26, 2009: Mikil Foss, Srikanth Iyengar and Jim Lewis have all been recognized at the annual All University Honors Convocation.
- Mikil Foss has been awarded the College Distinguished Teaching Award.
- Srikanth Iyengar has been awarded the College Distinguished Teaching Award.
- Jim Lewis has been awarded the George Howard-Louise Pound Award, which is awarded for exceptional contributions through teaching, and the Aaron Douglas Professorship, which is awarded to faculty who demonstrate sustained and extraordinary levels of teaching excellence and national visibility for instructional activities and/or practice.
To see more mathematics faculty awards, click here.
Apr 14, 2009: The Department has been honored by the American Mathematical Society with the society's 2009 Award for Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department. See also:
- Nebraska Department Wins Exemplary Program Award (by Allyn Jackson)
- 2009 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department
Feb, 2009: We are pleased to announce that Professor Judy Walker has been named as the Polya Lecturer for 2009-10 and 2010-11 by the Mathematical Association of America.
Oct 01, 2008: $9.3 million will support UNL-schools partnership to boost math skills.
Sep 20–21, 2008: The department hosted KUMUNU 2008.
The 2008 Rowlee Lecture was given by Peter Sarnak of the Institute for Advanced Study on "Equidistribution and Primes".
May 18–22, 2008: The department hosted Commutative Algebra: Connections with Algebraic Topology and Representation Theory
The department congratulates 13 students graduating with PhDs this spring.
Feb 8–10, 2008: We proudly hosted the 10th Annual Nebraska Conference for Women in Mathematics
Oct 3, 2007: Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture Series
See photos and video of the October 2005 AMS meeting at UNL.