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The Department of Mathematics is pleased to congratulate alum Sherry Chan on her recent election as the President-Elect and Vice Chair of the Society of Actuaries. She will become the organization…
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to congratulate Luči Krnić, PhD candidate in mathematics, on being named a Graduate Fellow by The Ohio State University's Translational Data Analytics…
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to congratulate students Julius Tabery, Ali Farsad, and Steve Manns for their excellent projects they…
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to congratulate Matt Kahle, Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics, and department alumnus Christopher Donnay…
The Society of Actuaries (SOA) has approved Ohio State University's Actuarial Science program as a University Earned Credit (UEC) institution. This designation recognizes universities with high…
The Gisele & Neil Robertson Mathematics Award was established through the generous support of Dr. George Neil Robertson and Gisele M. Robertson to recognize outstanding doctoral…
Congratulations to Professor and Vice Chair Yulong Xing on being awarded the 2026 Graduate Faculty Mentor Award! The award is the Ohio State Graduate School’s recognition of the exceptional…
The Mathematics Department is proud to announce the launch of a new endowed lecture series, made possible by a generous gift from Joseph Rosenblatt and Gay Miller. The
Congratulations to Mehmet Basaran for winning the 2025-26 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The GATA is the highest recognition by the…
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to highlight Carolyn Johns, assistant director of the Math and Statistics Learning Center (MSLC), in this Student Success Champion feature…
2/27/2026 Arlington, VA – The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) has announced that The Ohio State University has qualified for Gold Tier within the CAS University Recognition Program. This program…
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to recognize former Ohio State faculty member Facundo Mémoli and Ohio State mathematics alumnus Mario Gómez Flores for…
Joel Moreira, Florian Richter and Donald Robertson --- three former graduate students –- received Frontiers of Science Awards in Mathematics. Joel Moreira had the honor to receive the award and…
The Society of Actuaries (SOA) has awarded Ohio State University’s Actuarial Science program the prestigious designation of a Center of Actuarial Excellence (CAE). This…
The Polish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2024 Stefan Banach Medal to Professor Vitaly Bergelson for his outstanding contributions to ergodic theory, Ramsey theory, and combinatorial number…
Congratulations to James Marshall Reber, who has been awarded a 2025 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation. This NSF Fellowship is one of the…
The Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IM PAN) will host the "Perspectives on Ergodic Theory and its Interactions" conference from June 23 to 27, 2025, in Warsaw, Poland…
Congratulations to Kacey Aurum for winning the 2024-25 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The GATA is the highest recognition by the…
In December 2024, Ovidiu Costin, Rodica Costin, Crichton Ogle, and 3 other collaborators were awarded a 3rd…
Mathematics Chair, Dongbin Xiu, has been named in the prestigious 2024 Stanford/Elsevier List of Top 2% Scientists. Dr. Xiu ranked No. 31 out of…
Juan Pablo De Rasis has been awarded the Presidential Fellowship by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to…
Professor Hsian-Hua Tseng has been selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2025.
The AMS Fellows program recognizes mathematicians who "have made outstanding…
Welcome and congratulations to new Assistant Professor Yifan Jing who was recently awarded the 2023 Kirkman Medal of thethe Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA) for his excellent…
Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Park for winning the Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award.
The Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes outstanding performance in all three…
Congratulations to Katherine Goldman, a recent PhD graduate from our program, who has been awarded a 2024 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MSPRF) by the…
Congratulations to the OSU Cycle Mentoring Program who won the Graduate Student Award for Diversity Enhancement. Cycle is a community of undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of…
Congratulations to Professor Michael Lipnowski who has been awarded an NSF-CAREER grant for his proposal "CAREER: Topology, Spectral Geometry, and Arithmetic of Locally Symmetric Spaces." The goal…
Congratulations to Caroline Tatsuoka who has won the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award.
The SCGSR award is provided by the SCGSR…
PI Associate Professor of Teaching-Practice Bart Snapp along with collaborators Jim Fowler and A. Borland, P. Fatheddin, B. Findell, C. Johns, E. Miller, J. Miller, B. Ramsey, J. Sheldon, J…
OSU mathematics faculty, led by Dongbin Xiu and Maria Han Viega, are a part of a winning team (along with Stanford, Caltech, and UC San Diego) for the Mathematics of Digital Twins award by the…
Michel Talagrand, former Ohio State University Professor, has been awarded the prestigious Abel Prize for his work in probability theory and stochastic processes. This award will be presented in…
Professor Christian Schnell, an alumnus of our PhD program, has been selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2024.
The AMS Fellows program recognizes…
Professor Jean Lafont has been selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2024.
The AMS Fellows program recognizes mathematicians who "have made outstanding…
Stefan Patrikis, David Anderson, Angelica Cueto, and Jennifer Park have been awarded a 5-year, $2.1 million Research Training Group grant from the National Science Foundation in the areas of …
Join the department in congratulating David Penneys and collaborators who have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) in quantum information science and…
Congratulations to Eric Katz who have been awarded the Frontiers of Science Award for his paper "Hodge theory for combinatorial geometries" joint with Karim Adiprasito (Hebrew University) and June…
Dongbin Xiu, a professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in the Department of Mathematics, has been appointed interim chair of the department for a one-year term. His research interests…
Dr. Benjamin Call, a recent PhD graduate from our program, won a 2023 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation. Only 46 of these…
Congratulations to Lijuan Bi for receiving The Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching award in the university for lecturers and…
Congratulations to Jenny Sheldon for receiving The Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching award in the university for lecturers and…
Congratulations to Dongbin Xiu who has been selected to the 2023 Class of SIAM Fellows. He is being recognized for pioneering fundamental contributions to the mathematics and applications of…
Congratulations to Professor Caroline Terry who was awarded an NSF-CAREER grant for her proposal "CAREER: Model theoretic classification theory, Fourier analysis, and hypergraph regularity"! As a…
Congratulations to Kacey Aurum who has won the 2022-23 Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Service by the College of Arts and Sciences.
This year there were 60 nominations through a…
Ranthony Edmonds and her research team host workshops for K-12 Columbus students to encourage interest in mathematics via hands on problem solving and informative history about Black…
Congratulations to Kriti Sehgal and Ivo Terek for winning the 2022-23 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The GATA is the highest…
Congratulations to Caroline Terry, winner of the highly prestigious 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship. She is one of 125 early-career scholars who represent the most…
Mathew George has been awarded the Presidential Fellowship by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to…
The Ohio State University was named one of six universities to receive a Phase 2 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's "Driving Change" (HHMI-DC) initiative. This…
Congratulations to Jingyin Huang, who received the 2021 Kamil Duszenko Award. The award is organized by the Wroclaw Mathematicians Foundation (Poland), and recognizes
Avner Friedman, Distinguished University Professor in the Mathematical Biosciences Institute & Department of Mathematics, co-authored a new article on a novel spatial model for myocardial…
The Fields Medal is regarded as one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics, awarded by the International Mathematics Union every four years to at most four mathematicians under the age of…
Our associate director of outreach, Monica Delgado, was selected by the Office of Outreach and Engagement as a recipient of a Spring 2022 Grant. Monica received a grant in the category of…
James Talamo:
Dr. James (Jim) Talamo has won the 2021-2022 Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer.
From the award website: "The Provost’s Award for…
Aziz Burak Gülen has won the 2021-22 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) by the Ohio State Graduate School.
GATA is the highest recognition by the university for exceptional…
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced that Jingyin Huang has been awarded a 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship. The Sloan Fellowship is a highly prestigious annual award to US and Canadian early…
The OSU math department at Marion just concluded the latest Marion Math Challenge after a 2-year interruption due to pandemic lockdowns. This decade-old competition for local high school students…
The outreach group in the department, Buckeye Aha! Math Moments (BAMM), is piloting a Recreational Mathematics and Outreach course, Math 2194, in spring 2022. The instructors for the course are…
Bhawesh Mishra has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious academic recognition awarded by the Graduate…
Congratulations!
Congratulations to our graduate students on their many achievements during the past academic year! The linked pages below recognize the degrees earned and…
Postdoc scholar Ranthony Edmonds has been awarded a three-year Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend). Dr. Edmonds will investigate applications…
Department of Mathematics alumnus, Matthew Amodio, continues his spectacular performance on the game show "Jeopardy." Matt now ranks 5th in highest winnings in regular-season play in the well…
Matthew Stenzel has been awarded the Robert A. Barnes Award for Exemplary Teaching 2021. This teaching excellence award is presented annually to one tenured faculty member at Ohio State Newark who…
Benjamin Call has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The Presidential Fellowship recognizes truly outstanding scholarship among doctoral students and…
Congratulations to Elizabeth Campolongo who received a 2021 Graduate Associate Performance Award (GAPA) from the university's Graduate School.
GAPA is an award for exceptional performance…
Congratulations to Dhir Patel who received a 2021 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) from the university's Graduate School.
GATA is OSU’s most competitive award to recognize teaching…
Ross Assistant Professor Ranthony Edmonds has been awarded funding this week through the first round of Ohio State’s Seed Fund for Racial Justice. The goal of the Seed Fund is to promote the use of…
Our former student Joel Moreira has been awarded the 2020 Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians, given to outstanding researchers in dynamical systems within 4 years after…
City & State NY has named Sherry Chan ’01, ’12 MBA to its list of the most influential Asian Americans in New York politics and policy. Chan is just the fifth chief actuary in New York City’s history…
Congratulations to graduate students who graduated and won awards during the 2019-20 academic year! Our students earned 13 doctoral degrees, 39 master's degrees, and 3 college or university level…
Jingyin Huang has been named assistant professor and holder of the Alice Louise Ridenour Wood Chair in Mathematics, effective August 2020 through August 2025. Huang currently works in geometric…
Congratulations to Zhengyuan (Joe) Huang, a fourth year student in our applied math-physics track, on his award of an Undergraduate Research Scholarship by the Arts and Sciences Honors Committee…
Congratulations to Sergei Chmutov who was awarded the 2020 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, from the university's Office of Academic Success. This award honors individuals who…
Congratulations to Dhir Patel who has received the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Award for Teaching Excellence for 2020. Dhir was selected from over…
Join the department in congratulating David Anderson, an Assistant Professor, who received an NSF The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for his proposal "Equivariant and infinite…
Congratulations to Niko Schonsheck who has received a 2020 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) from the university's Graduate School!
A GATA award is Ohio State's highest recognition…
Our faculty member Joseph Tien, an expert in mathematical models of infectious disease dynamics, was interviewed recently by the Cincinnati Enquirer on his work on models for the spread of the…
Mladen Bestvina of the University of Utah was previously scheduled to present the Spring 2020 Zassenhaus lectures. Due to current coronavirus restrictions, he has been invited to reschedule his…
Congratulations to our undergraduate participants for their strong performance on the 2019 Putnam Competition!
The Putnam competition, founded in 1938, is the most prestigious national…
Math Advisory Board member Sherry S. Chan is committing to a gift to the math department establishing the Chan Actuarial Endowment Fund. This fund will support actuarial students primarily through…
Congratulations to our colleague Hsian-Hua Tseng for being awarded the 2019 International Consortium for Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) Best Paper Award for his joint paper "Open Gromov--Witten…
Congratulations to Dan Burghelea! Dan was awarded the Medal of Honor from the Society of Mathematical Science of Romania in October, 2019, for exceptional contributions to the promotion of…
Roberto Hernandez Palomares has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Ohio State Graduate School.
Presidential Fellowships recognize truly outstanding scholarship among doctoral…
Congratulations to this year's recipients of Staff Awards: Erin Anthony, Dawn Jones, Athena Yiamouyiannis, and Deborah Stout!
Ms. Erin Anthony is…
Sri Ravindran, an MAQRM student, won a third prize in an insurance and risk management contest. The research question is: how will climate change and population migration affect insurers?
Professor Ovidiu Costin was selected as a 2020 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. The Fellows of the AMS program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the…
Vaughan Jones of Vanderbilt University will present the Autumn 2019 Rado lectures on October 23, 24, and 25, 2019.
Join the department in congratulating Associate Professor Chuan Xue for receiving the PECASE award, after being nominated by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Presidential Early Career…
On June 12, 2019, a Ceremony on the occasion of awarding the Title of Honorary Doctor of Khazar University to Boris Mityagin, Russian-American prominent mathematician scientist, Professor of Ohio…
Congratulations to Ranthony A.C. Edmonds, Ross Assistant Professor and John H. Johnson Jr., Assistant Professor and Academic Program Specialist, for their award of a service-learning grant from…
Vilas Winstein, a junior in the honors mathematics program at OSU, has been named a Goldwater Scholar in mathematics for the 2019-2020 academic year. Congratulations to Vilas! The research mentors…
Congratulations to Matthew Kahle for receiving a 2019 Simon Fellowship in Mathematics. Professor Kahle's research interests include topological and geometric combinatorics, stochastic topology,…
Congratulations to Ebenezer de Oliveira, a student in our Master of Mathematical Sciences program, for his selection as one of Ohio State's Sesquicentennial Scholars. There were 150 outstanding…
A team consisting of fourth-year actuarial science majors Connor Rogers, Elise Hallenbeck, Alec Braund and Scott Baker from the Department of Mathematics’ Actuarial Club recently took first place…
The STEAM Factory, in partnership with the Sustainability Institute (SI) at Ohio State, Ohio State Energy Partners (OSEP), and Honda Research, is excited to announce the inaugural…
Pavel Etingof of MIT will present the Spring 2019 Zassenhaus lectures on March 25, 26, and 27, 2019.
Barbara Keyfitz, Charles Saltzer Professor in the Department of Math, has been elected Chair-Elect of the Mathematics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of…
Osama Khalil has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Ohio State Graduate School.
Presidential Fellowships recognize truly outstanding scholarship among doctoral students and…
Professor Matt Kahle has been selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2019. He has been recognized for contributions to stochastic topology, mentoring and service to…
In mathematics, the New Horizon prize is awarded to young faculty who have done outstanding work. Two 2019 laureates, Karim Adiprasito and June Huh, were honored for their joint work with…
Ruth Charney of Brandeis University will present the Fall 2018 Rado Lectures October 1, 2, and 3, 2018. Charney will present three lectures on Hyperbolicity and Beyond.
Lecture 1: Event and…
Dr. William (Bill) Husen has been honored as one of only six staff in the OSU College of Arts & Sciences to win a 2018 Outstanding Staff Award. Bill serves as the Director of Undergraduate…
Join the department in congratulating Eric Katz, an Assistant Professor, who received an NSF CAREER award for his proposal entitled "Tropical and Diophantine Geometry"
From the NSF…
Marissa Renardy has been selected for a 2018 Outstanding Graduate Student Award for her work developing an OSU chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), and making that chapter…
Sergey Fomin of the University of Michigan will present the Spring 2018 Zassenhaus lectures April 16, 17, and 18, 2018. The Zassenhaus Lectures were established to honor the memory of Hans…
The Mathematics department is hosting the AMS Spring Central Sectional Meeting over the weekend of March 17–18.
There are over 40 special sessions, with over 600 speakers. Many of these…
Congratulations to Professor Neil Robertson, who has become an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA). He is the first Honorary Fellow named since 2010 (the…
Professor James Cogdell has received the President and Provost's Award for Distinguished Faculty Service for 2018. This award recognizes up to three faculty members annually who have served in…
Join the department in congratulating Hoi Nguyen who has been awarded an NSF CAREER award.
Hoi’s proposal is entitled "CAREER: Littlewood-Offord Theory and Universality in Random Structures…
Hannah Alpert has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. The purpose of the Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research…
The SIAM Student Chapter has sponsored an in-house version of the COMAP "Math Contest in Modeling" (MCM) competition, thanks to the efforts of MBI postdoc Veronica Ciocanel and help from Rodica…
J. Andrew Newman has won a Presidential Fellowships by the Ohio State Graduate School. Presidential Fellowships recognize truly outstanding scholarship among doctoral students and provide…
Congratulations to Barbara Keyfitz, who has been named an inaugural Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
The Executive Committee of the AWM has established the AWM Fellows…
Carlos Kenig of the University of Chicago is the 2017 Radó Lecturer. Kenig will present three lectures on the Energy Critical Wave Equation. Detailed information on the three Kenig lectures can be…
Dustin Mixon's new arXiv paper, An Impossibility theorem for gerrymandering, joint with Boris Alexeev, has appeared in a Forbes article. The U.S. Supreme Court is currently deliberating over…
Join the department in congratulating Florian Richter, who is a recipient of the Graduate School's Phi Kappa Phi, Louise BC Vetter Award (sponsored by the Ohio State chapter of the Honor Society…
Several faculty members from our Department collaborated successfully with faculty from Computer Science and Engineering and Statistics and have now been awarded a TRIPODS grant from NSF. See the…
Avner Friedman was named as Fellow of the inaugural class of the Society for Mathematical Biology in 2017. Congratulations to Avner!
Read the full description of the Fellows program.
Jim Fowler's work on the Ohio Math Initiative is featured in Dispatch article titled "Professors trying to develop math courses that inspire."
Read the full article.
Florian Richter, a fifth year students in our doctoral program, has won a highly prestigious Presidential Fellowship provided by the Ohio State Graduate School. Only about 20 of Presidential…
Congratulations to our graduate students Daniel Glasscock and Shenhui Liu for receiving 2017 Graduate Associate Teaching Awards!
From the OSU Graduate School website, "The Graduate Associate…
The Department of Mathematics Emeritus Professor Harvey Friedman has been featured in an article in Nautilus titled "This Man is About to Blow Up Mathematics. Hary Friedman is about to bring…
Join the department in congratulating Duncan Clark who is this year's recipient of the ASC Outstanding Graduate Associate Teaching Award. This is a remarkable achievement since there is only one…
Join the department in congratulating David Penneys who has been awarded an NSF CAREER award this year.
Title of proposal: "Representing and Classifying Enriched Quantum Symmetry"
From…
Avner Friedman’s paper with an MBI postdoc (Wenrui Hao) on a mathematical model for Alzheimers Disease was selected to be featured on the homepage of the journal BMC Systems Biology.
"The…
Professor James W. Cogdell has been elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Professor Cogdell is one of four new AAAS Fellows in Mathematics. Election…
Hanbaek Lyu and Irfan Glogic, both students of our Ph.D. program, have been awarded highly prestigious Presidential Fellowships by the Graduate School of the university. Presidential Fellowships…
Professor Nimish A. Shah has been selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2017. The Fellows program of the AMS recognizes mathematicians who have made outstanding…
Sanjeevi Krishnan has been awarded a 3-year, $509,998 grant from the Air Force Office of Science Research. Krishnan has recently joined the department and is adding to the Algebraic Topology group…
Matt Kahle (PI, Math), Mike Davis (co-PI, Math), Facundo Memoli (co-PI, joint appt Math/CSE), Tamal Dey (co-PI, CSE/courtesy appt Math), and Yusu Wang (co-PI, CSE) have been awarded a 5-year, $1…
Fenglong You, a fourth year student in our mathematics Ph.D. program, has been awarded a prestigious Presidential Fellowship by the OSU Graduate School. Only about 20 of these fellowships are made…
Please join us in congratulating OSU Math Department graduate students Katie Ritchey, Sean Meehan, and Osama Khalil for receiving a 2016 Graduate Associate Teaching Award.
Andrei Okounkov of Columbia University will present the Spring 2016 Zassenhaus Lectures on April 11, 12, and 13, 2016. The Zassenhaus Lectures were established to honor the memory of Hans…
Two faculty members in the OSU Department of Mathematics are 2016 recipients of NSF Career Awards. Please join us in congratulating Adriana Dawes and Chuan Xue!
Adriana Dawes …
OSU Department of Mathematics Professor Emeritus Ronald Solomon will give talk entitled "The School of Athens, and Beyond" in the Emeritus Academy lecture series at the OSU Faculty Club on March…
The STEAM Factory Open House will be held on Friday, February 12th (6 – 9pm) at 400 W. Rich Street. The theme is Kepler’s Music of the Spheres: Harmonies in mathematics, astronomy, and music. One…
The Winston Churchill Foundation awards 15 annual scholarships supporting a year of graduate study at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Recipients are graduating seniors or recent…
John Pieper, Carolyn Johns, Austin Mack, and Erin Anthony have been named as this year's recipients of the OSU Department of Mathematics Staff Awards.
John Pieper…
OSU Department of Mathematics alumnus Huseyin Acan has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. This fellowship is designated…
The 2015 Midwest Dynamical Systems Meeting will take place at The Ohio State University from 10/30 - 11/1. Midwest Dynamics has been running annually since 1970, and this is the first time it will…
Bart Snapp of the OSU Mathematics Department has been awarded a Textbook Affordability Grant, sponsored by the Univerity Libraries, the Office of Distance Education and E-Learning (ODEE), and the…
OSU professor of mathematics emeritus Joan Leitzel is the recipient of the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2015 Bert Waits Award for positively…
OSU Mathematics Department alumnus Kelsey Brax has been selected as a 2015 Teaching Fellow by the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation. KSTF Teaching Fellowships are awarded to promising high…
The OSU Mathematical Biosciences Institute has released the dates and descriptions of its 2016 summer educational programs for graduate and undergraduate students.
Mathematical Modeling…
Percy Deift of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, is the 2015 Radó Lecturer. The Radó Lectures were established to honor the memory of Tibor Radó, who was a…
Congratulations to Boming Jia, who has been awarded the first annual Akos Seress Mathematics Scholarship (named for the late Dr. Akos Seress). Boming is an accomplished undergraduate Honors math…
Christian Schnell received his PhD from Ohio State in 2008 under the supervision of Herb Clemens. Since leaving OSU Schnell has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago…
OSU Mathematics Professor Emeritus Ronald Solomon is featured in the article The Whole Universe Catalog, which appeared in the July 2015 issue of Scientific American. This…
Fifth year OSU Math PhD student Joel Moreira has been awarded a prestigious Presidential Fellowship by the university's Graduate School. Less than 20 of these fellowships are given every semester…
The Function Fields, Zeta Functions and Drinfeld Modular Forms conference to be held June 22-25, 2015 at Imperial College, London has been dedicated in honor of David Goss for his work in…
Mary Rhollans, graduate student in the Mathematics for Educators MMS Program, was honored as a finalist for the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Graduate Associate Teaching Award. The…
Ken Koenig, Associate Professor of Mathematics, was honored as a finalist for the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award. The Outstanding Teaching Award recognizes a College of…
Tasos Sidiropoulos has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for his proposal entitled "CAREER: Geometric frontiers in algorithm design."
A synopsis of…
Dan Thompson has received a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his proposal entitled "Entropy in dynamics: connections with geometry, algebraic numbers, and bioscience.”…
We are happy to announce that Sandy Masters and Bryce Steel, Jack Zuefle and Roman Nitze are the winners of this year's departmental staff awards.
Sandy Masters has been the…
Benjamin Schmidt, one of our third year Ph.D. students in mathematics, has been awarded a prestigious Presidential Fellowship by the university's Graduate School. Only about 15 of these…
Assistant Professor Jim Fowler’s online calculus course, Calculus One, has captured the attention of many, including the publishers of Forbes Magazine. Fowler’s massive open online class (MOOC)…
This 2014 Summer Term, the following students finished their program within our department:
Doctorates:
Samuel Fotis - Advisor: Wenzhi Luo
Jung Eun Kim -…
Adriana Dawes, along with Helen Chamberlin of Molecular Genetics, has received a $1.2 million grant from a joint funding program between the NSF and NIH.
Congratulations, Adriana!
Professor Michael W. Davis has been selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2015. The Fellows program of the AMS recognizes mathematicians who have made outstanding…
Peter March, professor of mathematics and College of Arts and Sciences’ divisional dean for natural and mathematical sciences, has been named executive dean of the School of Arts…
Alain Connes, Collège de France, IHES, The Ohio State University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, will present a lecture course on "The Arithmetic Site" with the first introductory…
Zhi Qi, a graduate student here at the Math Department has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship by The Ohio State University Graduate School. This fellowship recognizes outstanding scholarship…
We are delighted to announce that Diana Devol Bevilacqua is one of this year's winners of the Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award.
As a member of the Mathematics Advising group for…
Congratulations to Professor Ivo Herzog, Lima campus, who received a Fulbright grant.
Ivo is planning to use this grant to spend a semester at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic during…
Please join me in congratulating Jacob Miller, one of our Math majors who won a first place in annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum on March 26.
http://undergraduateresearch.osu.edu…
Congratulations to Tyler Friesen, a major in our Honors program who received a 2014 Goldwater Scholarship. This is a very prestigious scholarship which recognizes undergraduate research. Tyler was…
Daniel T. Wise, of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of McGill University, will be the Zassenhaus Lecturer for Spring 2015, April 20-22nd. Daniel specializes in geometric group theory…
Matt Kahle has received a prestigious CAREER grant from NSF for his proposal entitled "Random spaces and groups.” The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the National…
Professor Sergei Chmutov, from the Mansfield branch of The Ohio State University, has been selected as the recipient of the 2013-2014 Honors Faculty Service Award. This award recognizes a College…
Marty Golubitsky has been elected Chair of the Section on Mathematics of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He will serve as Chair-Elect from February, 2014 through…
Jim Fowler has been selected to receive the Crestron Summum Bonum Award for Excellence in Teaching for his innovative work with the Calculus One massive open online course (MOOC) running on…
Please join me in congratulating Daniel Shapiro who has been selected as recipient of the 2014 University Distinguished Service Award.
Professor Emeritus…
At the Joint Meeting of the AMS and the MAA in Baltimore on Jan 15-18, 2014, Joan Leitzel received the 2014 Gung and Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics…
Professor Svitlana Mayboroda, a former Zassenhaus Assisntant Professor in this department from 2006 to 2008, has been named the first recipient of the AWM-Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis named…
Luis Caffarelli will be the 2014 Fall Radó Lecturer. Luis is Professor of Mathematics at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Science, University of Texas at Austin. Luis Caffarelli is…
I am delighted to announce that our graduate student Kun Wang has been awarded a prestigious Presidential Fellowship by the OSU Graduate School.
Kun joined our department in 2008 after…
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Herb Clemens, Jim Fowler and Bart Snapp have been awarded a TUES-Type 1 Project NSF grant for developing open-source tools for converting…
Ching-Shan Chou, assistant professor, mathematics, recently…
The topic of the conference is Hodge theory, classical algebraic geometry, and the interactions between them. Hodge theory is a powerful tool for the study and classification of algebraic…
The Department of Mathematics is delighted to report that Dr. Darry Andrews has been recognized with a Distinguished Staff Award. Since 2004 Darry Andrews has directed the activities of the…
The Department of Mathematics congratulates David Alden and Elizabeth Miller for winning the ASC Outstanding Staff Award. This award recognizes those staff members "who have demonstrated sustained…
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Yuval Flicker for receiving this award for his project entitled "Studies in Automorphic Forms." The award will allow Professor Flicker to spend a…
Matt Kahle will present at the STEAM FACTORY on April 13, 2013 from 11am to 2pm. The title of Professor Kahle's presentation is "Seeing 4D." Seeing 4D is about visualizing shapes in 4 deminsions…
Congratulations to Rodica Costin, Bart Snapp, and Craig Jackson (Ohio Wesleyan University) for receiving NSF Grant DMS-1252904 to fund the Young Mathematicians Conference for another three years.…
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Robin Baidya, who has a 2012 BS in mathematics from OSU, is the sole undergraduate (as a continuing education student) winner of the 2013…
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Brian McEnnis (OSU-Marion) for being awarded the 2013 President and Provost's Award for Distinguished Faculty Service. This award recognizes…
Mar. 2, 2013 is the date for this year's Rasor-Bareis-Gordon Competition - a mathematics contest for OSU undergraduates.
It is with great personal and professional sadness that the Department of Mathematics announces the passing of Professor Akos Seress, much too soon, on Wednesday evening February 13, 2013…
The Department of Mathematics is very happy to announce that it has received an Impact Grant from Ohio State Online. This grant will be used by Darry Andrews and his team to introduce online and…