News Archive
News Archive
Alex Buium promoted to Distinguished Professor
July 9, 2021
Professor Alex Buium 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
Our own Jim Ellison, Klaus Heineman, and Oleksii Beznosov featured in the UNM news
June 17, 2021
Today in the UNM News under the heading "UNM researchers study polarization and spin dynamics in electron storage rings" is an article featuring tremendous work by our own Emeritus Professor Jim Ellison, Research Assistant Professor Klaus Heinemann... read more
Student organized and lead "Directed Reading Program" (DRP)
June 10, 2021
Graduate and undergraduate students have teamed up to offer the "Directed Reading program" (DRP). This is the brainchild of first-year graduate student Austin Bell who benefited from such a program in his undergraduate institution, he has found... read more
Alumni Sara Pollock receives CAREER Award
June 9, 2021
Sara Pollock graduated in 2007 with a BS in Applied Mathematics from UNM and a minor in Physics. She worked with former UNM Mathematics and Statistics Department Professor Vageli Coutsias. She went on to receive a MS from the University of... read more
2021 Graduate Studies Summer Dissertation Writing Awards
May 7, 2021
Three of our advanced graduate students: Abdel Mohamed, Chamsol Park, and Zachary Stevens have been selected to receive 2021 Graduate Studies Summer Dissertation Writing Award (part of a pilot project OGS is running this summer). Congratulations! ... read more
Fletcher Christensen received UNM teaching award
May 3, 2021
Please join me in congratulating Fletcher Christensen, Assistant Professor in Statistics, who has received a
university wide 2020-21 New Teacher of the Year Award!!!
Well done Fletcher, you make us proud!
The virtual award ceremony will be held on ... read more
2020-21 UNM-PNM Math Contest in UNMnews
April 22, 2021
The UNM-PNM Math Contest's Award Ceremony was held online on Saturday April 17, 2021. Co-directors Zeb Chaudhry and Gleb Zhelezov reimagined the contests in covid times and run both rounds remotely and successfully. It was heart-warming to meet the... read more
AMS Fall Western Sectional Meeting - October 23-24, 2021
April 7, 2021
The AMS Fall Western Sectional Meeting will take place on October 23-24, 2021, it was originally planned to be held at UNM, but it will be a virtual meeting. The in-person meeting was moved to Fall 2023. Despite our fears our department and... read more
2008 UNM PhD graduates Jessica Deshler and Ralph Gomez featured in Lathisms 2020 Calendar
April 3, 2021
Two UNM PhD 2008 graduates, Jessica Deshler and Ralph Gomez, were featured in the 2020 Lathisms Calendar.
Dr, Jessica Deshler received her PhD in mathematics under the supervision of Kristin Umland in 2008. Jessica is now Professor of Mathematics... read more
Former faculty Vakhtang Putkaradze featured in SIAM News
April 3, 2021
Former Applied Mathematics faculty member Vakhtang Putkaradze was featured in the SIAM News on a joint article "Control and Integrability in Figure Skating"
Dr. Putkaradze came to UNM in 1999 as an Asistant Professor, received tenure and was... read more
Roger Entringer passed away
January 9, 2021
UNM Alumni and Emeritus Professor Roger Entringer passed away last year. His former PhD student Joseph Barr shared the sad news.
Dr Entringer earned his Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico in 1963 with Dissertation: Some Properties of Certain Sets... read more
In-service Week Schedule, Spring 2021
January 7, 2021
Schedule for Spring 2021 In-Service
Also in pdf format.
All meetings will be conducted online via Zoom. Links to Zoom meetings will be emailed prior to the sessions.
Thursday, January 14
General Meetings: 9:00-10:00
General Meeting for all PTIs... read more
Deborah Sulsky featured in the Notices of the AMS
October 30, 2020
Deborah Sulsky and coauthors article on "Modeling Sea Ice" just appeared in the November issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Over the past decade or so, research on modeling sea ice and its role in Earth’s climate system... read more
Memorial website for Reuben Hersh
October 9, 2020
Daniel Hersh, Reuben Hersh's son, shared the following permanent memorial website for Reuben:
https://sites.google.com/view/in-memory-of-reuben-hersh
You can find in here remembrances, photos, obituaries, tributes, articles, interviews, CV, even... read more
UNM Welcomes New Faculty, Visiting Professor, and Postdoctoral Fellow
August 31, 2020
Please join us in welcoming Owen Lewis, Junqing Qian and Gleb Zhelezov.
Owen Lewis, PhD, Assistant Professor
Owen is an applied mathematician and received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California Davis where he worked under... read more
