News Archive
News Archive
2024-25 UNM-PNM Math Contest first round
December 11, 2024
The first round of the UNM-PNM Statewide High School Mathematics Contest took place over the weekend of November 22-25, 2025. This year about 35 middle and high schools in New Mexico participated, including schools from Albuquerque, Las Cruces,... read more
Matt Blair one of three Invited Addresses at AMS Sectional Meeting
October 23, 2024
Professor Matt Blair is one of three invited addresses at the 2024 Fall Western Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society held at University of California--Riverside on October 26-27, 2024 (this is quite an honor).
Blair's lecture ... read more
Sarah Percival will be a speaker at the UNM First Lightning Lounge
October 17, 2024
Assistant Professor Sarah Percival will be a speaker at the second UNM First Neuroscience and Data Science Lightning Lounge,
Wednesday October 23, 2024, 3:30-5:30 at the UNM Faculty Club (pdf flyer)
This is an opportunity to meet the newly... read more
Math Teacher's Circle meets at SMLC: Connecting folks across Albuquerque through food and math!
October 3, 2024
The first gathering of the Albuquerque's Math Teacher's Circle was held on the first Thursday of September (09/05/2024) at SMLC 120 in the evening. Subsequent meetings will be held this semester on the first Thursday of October and November, same... read more
Fold Lab, Origami Club's First Meeting
September 17, 2024
The first meeting of the newly created Origami Club took place on Friday September 6, 2024, at the Lounge in Ortega Hall. This first event went very well, they had a turnout of around 40 students! Of the 40 people who attended the event, 20 had... read more
Dennis Baidoo Receives Prestigious American Statistical Association Biopharmaceutical Section Scholarship Award
August 16, 2024
We are proud to announce that Dennis Baidoo, a master's student in our department, has been honored with the American Statistical Association (ASA) Biopharmaceutical Section Scholarship Award at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2024. This award... read more
Janet Vassilev, Guoyi Zhang, and Kat Sorensen Promoted
July 1, 2024
Please join us in congratulating the newly promoted faculty
Janet Vassilev, who received a promotion to Full Professor,
Guoyi Zhang, who received a promotion to Full Professor,
Kathleen Sorensen, who received promotion to Senior Lecturer II.
Well... read more
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
