Leaders in the Field

9/5/17

Our faculty are well-published scholars in fields of algebra, analysis, applied mathematics, and geometry/topology. Cultivating excellence, collegiality, and diversity, our faculty observe the highest standards of ethics, integrity, and professionalism.

10/4/17 Faculty Directory

Active Intellectual Life

9/5/17

The Department of Mathematics is proud of its excellent teaching and active research programs. Several of our faculty members are recipients of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. A strong tradition of mentorship attracts the most promising individuals and supports their development.

Meet Our Mathletes

6/30/17

Powerfully fit and analytically minded, a team of UB math students competes for the $250,000 top prize on NBC’s “Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge.”

7/26/17 Learn more

Dedicated Teaching

5/31/17

Our faculty-student ratio is high compared to many universities.
We teach:
    — Computational skills
    — Analytical skills
    — Research skills
    — Communication skills
    — Practical problem solving
    — Mathematical modeling skills

Faculty Research

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.

EDGE@UB

3/12/16

The National Science Foundation has awarded UB Math a three-year, $600,000 grant to support the new program “Experiential Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE@UB).” Led by mathematics professor and director of graduate studies William Menasco, the collaboration includes industry and academic partners. Learn more.

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Variety of Concentrations

7/20/15

Mathematics is a broad discipline with many diverse applications in physical sciences, life sciences, and engineering as well as social and managerial sciences. The Department of Mathematics provides a variety of concentrations leading to Baccalaureate, Masters, and PhD degrees.

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Graduate Admissions Information

Master's Application Fee Waiver

ALEKS: Information for students wishing to enroll in MTH 121, 131 or 141

ALEKS FEE UPDATE: STUDENTS WHO DID NOT TAKE ALEKS WILL HAVE THE FEE OF $33. CREDITED TO THEIR ACCOUNTS.

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Oct 24

Applied Math Seminar- Matthew J. Hoffmann, Rochester Institute of Technology
3:45PM, Tue Oct 24 2017, Math 250

Oct 30

Algebra Seminar- Henry Tucker, University California, San Diego
Title:Fusion categories and their invariants
4:00PM, Mon Oct 30 2017, Math 250

Nov 14

Applied Math Seminar- Sonjoy Das, University at Buffalo, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
3:45PM, Tue Nov 14 2017, Math 250

Nov 22

Start of Fall Recess
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Nov 27

Classes Resume
Monday, November 27, 2017

Nov 28

Applied Math Seminar
Katharine Anderson, Carnegie Mellon University
3:45PM, Tue Nov 28 2017, Math 250

NEW & NOTEWORTHY

What's in a ripple?

9/22/17

A new paper by Gino Biondini and colleagues at the University of Colorado Boulder brings us closer to finding an answer. The research, published in August in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A, lays out a set of newly formulated equations that are designed to characterize what happens when an undular bore occurs and spreads along two axes. Visually, this phenomenon resembles the concentric ripples that proliferate outward when you toss a stone into a pond. Read more.
Dane Taylor

8/24/17

UB Math welcomes Dane Taylor to our faculty in Fall 2017. His work, at the intersection of high-dimensional data analysis (HDDA), nonlinear and complex systems, and network science, uses analyses of functional and structural networks, time series, images, videos, etc., to study complex systems arising in biology, physics, and engineering. Aiming to develop new tools for HDDA, Taylor's research incorporates methodologies from nonlinear dynamics, linear algebra, spectral graph theory, computational topology, statistics, statistical physics and machine learning. We expect Taylor will make full use of abundant resources available at UB and within our department.

8/28/17 Faculty Profile
Alexandru Chirvasitu

8/24/17

UB Math welcomes Alexandru Chirvasitu to our faculty in Fall 2017. His work includes: representation theory with a quantum group flavour; non-commutative geometry and some functional analysis and operator algebras; category theory; and some algebraic geometry, mostly foundational issues, such as scheme/stack reconstruction from category-theoretic data. Chirvasitu is co-author of Exotic Elliptic Algebras of dimension 4 (with S. Paul Smith) forthcoming in Advances in Mathematics. We look forward to watching his impressive publication repository continue to grow as a member of our faculty.

8/22/17 Faculty Profile
Guoliang Yu

9/21/17

September 18, 19, and 20, join us for the 2017 Myhill Lecture Series by Guoliang Yu. His lecture series is entitled "Groups, Manifolds, and Higher Invariants of Elliptic Operators".

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Our students

2017 Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching

8/2/17

The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching. Winning the top awards, including a $750 prize, were Charles Cain and Abdalrazzaq Zalloum.
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.
On Intersection Graphs of Convex Polygons

5/13/16

At the International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, held in Brno, Czech Republic, our URGE To Compute team received the Best Student Paper Award for their presentation, "On Intersection Graphs of Convex Polygons".
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.

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