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Campersand - A math summer camp at SMLC

June 24, 2024

 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is hosting the 2024 CAMP for Algortihmic Mathematical Play  on June 24-28, 2024. Our building, SMLC,  will become alive with lots of youngsters, adults and math models on the SMLC atrium area, classrooms... read more

Spring 2024 Convocation

May 14, 2024

On Friday May 10th, 2024, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics had its graduation ceremony.  The SMLC Auditorium was packed with graduating undergraduate and graduate students, their families, friends, departmental staff, instructors, and  ... read more

2023-24 UNM-PNM Statewide High School Mathematics Contest

May 5, 2024

On Saturday April 27, 2024 an awards banquet celebrated the winners of the 2023-2024 UNM-PNM Statewide High School Mathematics Contest <https://mathcontest.unm.edu/> . The winners, their families, and teachers gathered for the celebration in... read more

Pavel Lushnikov will be a speaker at the Faculty Lightning Lounge

April 3, 2024

Distinguished Professor Pavel Lushnikov  will be a speaker in  the next faculty Lightning Lounge, April 10 from 4-5 p.m. in Ortega Hall room 335.   The Lightning Lounge events feature 7 minute talks by faculty from across campus about their research... read more

Math & Stats Graduate Students will lead Virtual Panel at CTL Conference on April 4

March 28, 2024

Current and former graduate students Daniel Kowalczyk, Alex Fritschi, Austin Bell, and Daniel Havens will participate in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) 2024 Spring Teaching Conference: Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning. They are... read more

Department will host the 2024 Southwestern Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference (SUnMaRC) April 5-7

March 25, 2024

See the Conference Web Page https://math.unm.edu/conferences/sunmarc-2024-university-new-mexico    The Department will host the 2024 Southwestern Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference (SUnMaRC) on Friday-Sunday, April 5-7, 2024.  SUnMaRC... read more

Math & Stats graduate students help organize Susie Rayos Marmon Elementary's Math Night

March 21, 2024

Graduate students Sarah Poiani, Daniel Havens,  Alexander Fritschi, and Umair Wani, and former graduate student Austin Bell brought their boundless enthusiasm for mathematics, tilings and puzzles  to Susie Rayos Marmon Elementary School on Tuesday... read more

Applied Math PhD student David Vargas is recipient of Sandia’s prestigious John von Neumann Postdoctoral Fellowship

March 20, 2024

David A. Vargas, currently a UNM PhD student in applied mathematics, was recently announced as the recipient of the John von Neumann Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Science at Sandia National Laboratories.  David expects to graduate by... read more

UNM well represented at the 2024 Southwest Local Algebra Meeting (SLAM)

February 28, 2024

UNM was well represented in the 2024 Southwest Local Algebra Meeting (SLAM). Five of our graduate (or former graduate) students drove together to Oklahoma City over the weekend and participated in the meeting that was held at the  University of... read more

In-service Week Schedule, Spring 2024

January 8, 2024

Schedule for Spring 2024 In-Service See pdf schedule. All meetings are in-person; some require instructors to bring their laptops.  

Alumna Oksana Guba is part of the SNL lead winning team of the first ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling

November 17, 2023

Oksana Guba, received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from UNM in 2008, her advisor was Jens Lorenz, her thesis was on "The spectra of differential operators on bounded and unbounded domains". After graduation she was a postdoctoral fellow and a... read more

Alex Buium's work featured in the Notices of the AMS

November 16, 2023

An article on "Differentiating by Prime Numbers" by Jack Jeffries in the December 2023 Notices of the AMS prominently features our own Alex Buium's work. The article starts like this: "It is likely a fair assumption that you, the reader, are not... read more

UNM contingent attends the South Central Topology Conference III at NMSU

November 10, 2023

Three current  graduate students and an alumni from our department attended the  South Central Topology Conference III held at New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, NM on October 28-29, 2023. Those participating were second year student... read more

The Exciting Rise of Statistics: A Thriving Career Path for the Future

November 9, 2023

Current and future-looking students of statistics, I am thrilled to share some exciting news from the realm of statistics that underscores the growing importance and demand for statistical expertise in the workforce. According to a recent economic... read more

Statistical literacy recommended for undergrad researchers

October 6, 2023

Math 1300 Statistical Literacy and Professor Milo Schield were featured in a UNM Newsroom article on by Mary Beth King on October 05, 2023. The University of New Mexico offers a unique course called Math 1300 Statistical Literacy, aimed at students... read more

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