News Archive
News Archive
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
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
