News Archive
News Archive
Convocation May 2023
May 13, 2023
On May 12, 2023 the Department of Mathematics and Statistics held an in person Convocation in the SMLC Auditorium followed by a reception in the SMLC Atrium. Awards were given to students (as voted by the faculty) and to faculty (as voted by the... read more
Screening “Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani” on 05/12/23
May 11, 2023
The UNM Department of Mathematics and Statistics will be holding a screening of the film “Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani” in honor of International Women in Mathematics day on May 12, 2023. We invite you all to... read more
2022-2023 UNM-PNM Math Contest
May 9, 2023
The award ceremony for the 2022-23 UNM-PNM Statewide Math Contest was held on Saturday April 29th at the SUB. The Department has organized the math contest since 1966 with a couple interruptions. PNM has been a partner since 1997 providing crucial... read more
Daniel Kowalczyk to receive 2022-2023 Susan Deese-Roberts Outstanding Teaching Assistant award
April 6, 2023
Statistics Graduate student and TA Daniel Kowalczyk has been selected to receive the 2022-2023 Susan Deese-Roberts Outstanding Teaching Assistant award.
An in-person award ceremony is scheduled for Friday, May 5th from 3-5PM at Hodgin Hall, UNM... read more
David Vargas receives Student Paper Award for the second time!
March 22, 2023
Graduate student David Vargas just won the 2023 Copper Mountain Conference Student Paper Competition. David is a student of Jacob Schroder, and this is the second time David wins this award (2022), a rare feat.
Congratulations David, you make us... read more
In-service Week Schedule, Spring 2023
January 8, 2023
Schedule for Spring 2023 In-Service
See pdf schedule.
Most meetings will be conducted online via Zoom, others via MS Teams or in person. Links to Zoom meetings will be emailed prior to the sessions.
Jack Dongarra, recipient of the 2021 Turing Award, visits UNM on 10/10/2022
September 25, 2022
The University of New Mexico is planning a celebration Monday, Oct. 10 in honor of alumnus Jack Dongarra, the recipient of the 2021 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award - often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of computing... read more
Schroder, Zhang, Wearing receive awards
September 6, 2022
Kudos to three of our faculty, Jacob Schroder, Helen Wearing and Guoyi Zhang who received awards as Lead PIs or coPIs from different agencies: LLNL, CDCP and NSF.
Kudos to all of you who keep applying for internal and external support!
Lead PI:... read more
Deborah Sulsky awarded large DOE grant
September 3, 2022
Emeritus Professor Deborah Sulsky (CCed) has been awarded one of seven large grants as part of a $70 Million to Improve Supercomputer Model of Earth's Climate System recently announced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
https://climatemodeling... read more
Alumni Ralph Gomez featured in the Notices of the AMS
August 17, 2022
Alumni Ralph Gomez is featured in the September 2022 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society
https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202208/rnoti-p1337.pdf?adat=September%202022&trk=2526&cat=career&galt=none
DOI: https://... read more
Ana Parra Lombard receives Outstanding Staff Award
July 19, 2022
Please join me in congratulating Ana Parra Lombard who has been awarded the Provost Committee for Staff (PCS) Outstanding Staff Award.
The Committee's Chair also sent this message: We had a large pool of nominees, so you should be proud that you... read more
Schroder, F. Christensen, Champine have been promoted and Korotkevich, Skripka, Zinchenko, Chaudhry, Greenberg were promoted last year
July 15, 2022
Please join us congratulating the newly promoted faculty
Jacob Schroder, who received tenure and promotion to Associate professor.
Fletcher Christensen, who received a second probationary period as Assistant Professor.
Karen Champine, who was... read more
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
