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MSCS welcomes three new Lecturers

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.…

MSCS welcomes three new Tenure Track Assistant Professors

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…

Professor Alexander Furman receives Simons Fellowship

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.   Until the…

Marcus Michelen receives NSF CAREER award for 2024-29

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…

Marcus Michelen’s work featured in Quanta Magazine

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…

Scott Mutchnik awarded the Sacks Prize

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/

Matthew Harrison-Trainor awarded Sloan Fellowship

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 Coskun speaking at the podium

Prof. Coskun gives LAS Distinguished Professor Lecture

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…

Osama Khalil receives NSF CAREER award for 2024-29

Assistant Professor Osama Khalil 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…

Nicole Looper receives NSF CAREER award for 2024-29

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…

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