3/15/16

Each year about one-third of our faculty hold external research grants from agencies such as the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, and the National Science Foundation. Faculty research enhances our intellectual and technological environment to support exceptionally creative science and education.

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9/15/16 Myhill Lectures 2016, Gopal Prasad, “Arithmetic in Geometry”

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Oct 4

Applied Math Seminar-Alethea Barbaro (Case Western)
4:00PM, Tue Oct 4 2016, Math 250

Oct 4

Graduate Mentoring Seminar- Fred Stoss
Library Research Skills for Math Graduate Students.
5:00PM, Tue Oct 4 2016, Math 250

Oct 7

Algebra Seminar- Professor Du Jie, University of New South Wales, Australia
q-Schur algebras and their affine and super counterparts
3:00PM, Fri Oct 7 2016, Math 122

Oct 17

Algebra Seminar- Michiel Kosters, University of California, Irvine
4:00PM, Mon Oct 17 2016, Math 250

Oct 18

Myhill Lecture Series -Gopal Prasad
4:00PM, Tue Oct 18 2016, Math 250

Oct 19

Myhill Lecture Series -Gopal Prasad
4:00PM, Wed Oct 19 2016, Math 250

OUR FACULTY

Muldoon examines brain connectivity

9/27/16

What really happens when doctors zap the brain? Sarah Muldoon is first author on a new study that describes how the stimulation of a single region of the brain affects the activation of other regions and large-scale activity within the brain. Learn more.
Biondini describes the essence of waves

6/4/16

Work by UB mathematician Gino Biondini, builds on centuries of research devoted to using math to describe the physical world. See UB REPORTER Research News.
Bill Menasco's 'Knot Challenge'

6/4/16

You’ve heard of string theory. What about knot theory? Take it from Bill Menasco, a knot theorist of 35 years: This field of mathematics, rich in aesthetic beauty and intellectual challenges, has come a long way since he got into it. Read more. See video: 'Knot Challenge'.

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Our students

UB Math Grads win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

6/4/16

The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) named a record number of winners from UB this year, one more than all the awards given to students in the rest of the SUNY system. For the 2016 competition, NSF received close to 17,000 applications, and made 2,000 award offers.
Students win worldwide contest in mathematical modeling

5/13/16

Competing in a field of 7,600 entries, UB's team became one of ten Outstanding Winners in the 2015 Mathematical Contest in Modeling. The worldwide competition is run by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications.
Tom Effland wins ACM SRC Grand Finals

9/28/15

Thomas Effland wins Grand Finals in the Association for Computing Machinery Student Research Competition for his paper, Focused Retrieval of University Course Descriptions from Highly Variable Sources.
Summer Math Scholarship

7/15/16

Starting next summer, a UB mathematics major will be the first to receive the “Summer Math Scholarship” to pursue individual research with a faculty mentor. The Summer Math Foundation, Inc. of Amherst, NY has funded the program for 2017 and simultaneously established an endowment to support the program for future summers.
2016 Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching

5/14/16

The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching. Winning the top awards, including a $750 prize, were Megan Johnson and Tara Hudson.