News Archive
News Archive
UNM Alumnus Dmitry Panchenko Invited Speaker at 2022 ICM where Field medals were awarded today
July 5, 2022
UNM Alumnus Dmitry Panchenko and Full Professor at University of Toronto in Canada will deliver a prestigious Invited Lecture as a Sectional Speaker at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2022) held virtually this week July 5-14... read more
Math Camp at UNM
June 29, 2022
If you have been around the department this week (June 27 - July 1, 2022) you would have seen lots of youngsters and adults (all properly masked) and math models on SMLC atrium area and in our classrooms and seminar rooms. It is heartwarming! ... read more
Janet Vassilev is a 2022 Women in STEM Award recipient
June 24, 2022
Associate Professor Janet Vassilev is one of twelve 2022 Women in STEM Award recipients.
The Women in STEM awards are hosted by Advance at UNM in collaboration with the UNM Office of Academic Affairs and the Office of the Vice President for... read more
Ron Christensen newly minted Distinguished Professor
June 23, 2022
Professor Ron Christensen has been promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The letter from the Provost said:
You are one of several new Distinguished Professors, selected from an incredibly strong pool of nominations, and you join current... read more
Alexandr Wang former UNM-PNM Math Contest Winner and CEO of Scale AI at 25 years old
June 9, 2022
What a surprise reading the Spanish newspaper El Pais this morning (06/09/2022) to find an article about Alexandr Wang a former UNM-PNM Math Contest winner for seven years in a row. In case your Spanish is good enough:
https://elpais.com/gente/2022... read more
Mathematics and Statistics 2022 Graduation
May 13, 2022
On Friday May 13, 2022 we will have the Mathematics and Statistics 2022 virtual graduation ceremony. Come to celebrate our wonderful BS, MS and PhD students who are closing one chapter and moving on with their lives and analytical skills to do... read more
Prof. Guoyi Zhang receives ASA/NCHS fellowship
May 2, 2022
Join me in congratulating Associate Professor, Guoyi Zhang for receiving an American Statistical Association/National Center for Health Statistics (ASA/NCHS) 12-month fellowship. The ASA & NCHS Research Fellowship Program bridges the gap... read more
Rooms and Schedule for Common Final Exams on Monday May 9th, 2022
May 1, 2022
The rooms and times assigned for the Common Final Exams on Monday December 13, 2021 for the courses:
Math 1220, Math 1240, Math 1250, Math 1430, Math 1512, Math 1522, Math 2531, Math 314 and Math 316
are posted here .
Graduate student Austin Bell and Part-Time Instructor Marina Popova win teaching awards
April 25, 2022
Please join me in congratulating
Austin Bell who just won a 2021-22 Susan Deese-Roberts Teaching Assistant of the Year Award and
Marina Popova who just won a 2021-22 Online Teacher of the Year Award.
Austin has distinguished himself teaching and... read more
Undergraduate Valerie Fong and Alumni Kaitlin O'Dell get NSF GRFP awards
April 14, 2022
The recipients of this year's NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) are out: https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=sort&page=34
Nine UNM current or former undergraduate students were selected. Among them two of our ... read more
ASSURE recipients presenting posters at 2nd Annual Team Research Symposium
April 6, 2022
The following students from our department are presenting at the 2nd Annual Team Research Symposium which will be held as a hybrid event from April 19th – 21st. Check the link as there are a number of interesting talks, panels and activities that... read more
Alumni Jack Dongarra receives 2021 Turing Award
March 31, 2022
The prestigious 2021 Turing Award went to Jack Dongarra, a UNM Ph.D. His Ph.D. is 1980 in Applied Mathematics under the supervision of Cleve Moler (the creator of Matlab and a former Professor in our Department that went to be the first chair of CS... read more
New DA Amy Hathaway, joins the Department
March 28, 2022
Our new DA, Amy Hathaway, is joining the department today.
Amy has been at UNM for many years, she was an Accountant in the Anthropology Department, then the equivalent of a DA in the Maxwell Museum (Unit Administrator), eight years ago she moved... read more
Graduate student Austin Bell gets 2021-22 Lobo leadership & Involvement Award
March 9, 2022
Math graduate student Austin Bell has been selected for this year’s 2021-22 Lobo Leadership & Involvement Awards!
Austin joined the Mathematics Graduate Program at UNM in Fall 2020, in the middle of the pandemic.
He created the Math Directed... read more
Sophomore Franklin Pezzuti Dyer shines at Putnam competition
February 24, 2022
Congratulations to Franklin Pezzuti Dyer on his excellent performance at the 82nd William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
Franklin is a Sophomore at UNM studying Computer Science and Mathematics. His competition score has placed him in the... read more
