The department congratulates Jennifer Pajda-De La O for her receipt of the universities Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching. The Silver Circle Awards have been given each year since 1966 to honor…
Assistant Professor Philip Engel has received an NSF CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development Program) award titled Hodge theory of Calabi-Yau varieties. CAREER is an NSF (National Science Foundation) award that supports early-career faculty…
Congratulations to MSCS Faculty Member and former Head of Department Brooke Shipley who has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Mathematical Society (announcement from the AMS).
MSCS Faculty member Laura Schaposnik was included in this year’s list of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. From the awards website: “Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers…
Congratulations to Alison Superfine (Mathematics Statistics and Computer Science and Learning Sciences Research Institute) who is PI on a successful $4.3M grant from the Education Innovation and Research program from the US Department…
The department is delighted to welcome three Lecturers who have joined our faculty this Fall. Duha Hamed joins us from Winthrop University having completed a doctorate at Ph.D. chapter at Central Michigan University.…
The department is happy to welcome three new Tenure Track Assistant Professors to join our faculty this Fall. Gabriel Conant, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago, works in Model Theory and interactions with…
MSCS department Professor Alexander Furman has been awarded a Simons Fellowship for 2025. This fellowship funds one extra semester of research time in combination with a one semester sabbatical leave. Â Until the…
Assistant Professor Marcus Michelen has received an NSF CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development Program) award titled Analytic and High-dimensional Methods in Probability. CAREER is an NSF (National Science Foundation) award that supports early-career…
Assistant Professor Marcus Michelen’s recent work has appeared in Quanta Magazine. The work concerns sphere packing in higher dimensions, in which Marcus and his collaborators achieve new bounds that are currently the best…
Congratulations to Scott Mutchnik, Research Assistant Professor, who has been awarded the 2023 Sacks Prize from the Association of Symbolic Logic. https://aslonline.org/prizes-and-awards/sacks-prize-recipients/
Congratulations to Matthew Harrison-Trainor who has been selected to receive a 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Research Fellowships honor extraordinary U.S. and Canadian early career researchers…
Prof. Izzet Coskun have his LAS Distinguished Professor Lecture titled “Break and Count: The Art of Specialization” in which he discussed his work in algebraic geometry as well as his numerous mentors and…
Matthew Harrison-Trainor, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science gave the Association for Symbolic Logic Invited Address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco in January 2024, titled…
Yichao Wu, an expert in functional data analysis and machine learning, gave his Scholarly Lecture at the Investiture of the inaugural TransUnion Professor in Data Science on January 11, 2024. As…
Assistant Professor Osama Khalil has received an NSF CAREERÂ (Faculty Early Career Development Program) award. CAREER is an NSF (National Science Foundation) award that supports early-career faculty that may serve as academic role model…
Assistant Professor Nicole Looper has received an NSF CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development Program) award. CAREER is an NSF (National Science Foundation) award that supports early-career faculty that may serve as academic role model in research and…
University of Chicago partners with UIC, other regional Universities and
Research to create new Institute for Mathematical and Statistical
Innovation with 15.5 Million USD NSF grant
