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  • Julia Shapiro wins 2022 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence
    3/31/22
    The University at Buffalo Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Julia Shapiro, winner of the 2022 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. Shapiro will graduate with a bachelor of science in mathematics, and her accomplishments as an undergraduate student include: University Honors College Scholar,  winner of the 2021 Harriet F. Montague Award, and President of the UB Undergraduate Math Club. Shapiro has completed research on Markov Chains through a nationally recognized program at the University of Connecticut, has been a Peer Mentor in the Honors College,  has served as an Ambassador of both the Honors College and the College of Arts and Sciences, and has served as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in three separate departments — Mathematics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science. 
  • Tyler Glover wins the 2021 Math Summer Scholarship
    1/11/22
    The UB Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Tyler Glover, a junior majoring in Mathematics, is the recipient of the 2021 Math Summer Scholarship. Under the guidance faculty mentor, Dr. Joseph Hundley, Tyler designed a special Undergraduate Research project that involved studying methods of geometric construction beyond the standard straight edge and compass, as well as their limitations and the number systems associated with them. For example, a classic result of abstract algebra states that if a segment of length x can be constructed, given a straight edge, a compass, and a segment of length 1, then x must be a root of an irreducible polynomial with integer coefficients and degree equal to a power of two.
  • Our students win Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for Spring 2022
    11/18/21
    The University Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Elohim Fonseca dos Reis and  Asela Abeya are each recipients of the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for the Spring Semester 2022. The award recognizes outstanding research by our graduate students.
  • Mengyuan (Jason) Sun presents research poster at UB's 2021 Celebration of Academic Excellence
    1/11/22
    Congratulations to UB Mathematics major Mengyuan (Jason) Sun on being selected to present a research poster in the 2021 Celebration of Student Academic Excellence Poster Presentations". His work is titled "Synthesis of Doped 2d Transition Metal Chalcogenide". Sun will deliver an 8-minute oral presentation via Zoom, Wednesday, April 21. Everyone is welcome to attend the virtual event. UB Mathematics students who may be interested in doing their own research project or presentation in the future are particularly encouraged to attend. Learn more about the Celebration of Student Academic Excellence, and see messages from President Tripathi and Provost Weber, here.  See the full schedule of the poster sessions, here.
  • Jeremy Kazimer wins the 2020 Math Summer Scholarship
    1/11/22
    The UB Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Jeremy Kazimer, a junior majoring in Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics, is the winner of the 2020 Math Summer Scholarship. Jeremy is studying network models for complex systems and high-dimensional data under the guidance his faculty mentor, Dr. Dane Taylor.  Specifically, the 2020 scholarship supported Jeremy's interest in extending information-theoretic techniques to quantify the structural complexity of social networks and biological systems.
  • UB Actuarial student Mousa Sunnoqrot featured by AdvisorSmith
    3/23/20

    Mousa Sunnoqrot is a senior at the State University of New York at Buffalo in Amherst, New York, where he is majoring in Mathematics and minoring in Economics and Statistics, with a concentration on Actuarial Science. Mousa is the professional chair for University at Buffalo’s student-run Society of Future Actuaries, and he interned this past summer at Healthfirst in New York City. Mousa is featured in a Q&A by AdvisorSmith, a provider of comprehensive research and advanced tools to better understand insurance for business professionals.

  • Destiny Diaz wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award
    8/22/20
    The University at Buffalo Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Destiny Diaz has won the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Award. The prestigious award is one of the most competitive and respected scientific fellowships in the U.S.  Diaz is completing a BS in mathematics with a minor in Spanish. Recently, Diaz received 2019 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. A Buffalo native, she is a member of the University Honors College and a Prosperity Fellow. In Fall 2019, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship will support her pursuit of graduate study in biostatistics at UB. The award provides three years of financial support within a five-year fellowship period, which amounts to a $34,000 annual stipend and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance to the graduate institution.
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  • Linda Alegria, UB Math Graduate Student, wins 2022 Excellence in Teaching Award
    4/25/22
    The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Linda Alegria has been awarded the University at Buffalo's 2022 Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Student Teaching Assistants. The award was presented at a luncheon in April, with Satish Tripathi, UB President, and Robin Schulze, CAS Dean, in attendance.
  • Julia Shapiro wins 2022 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence
    3/31/22
    The University at Buffalo Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Julia Shapiro, winner of the 2022 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. Shapiro will graduate with a bachelor of science in mathematics, and her accomplishments as an undergraduate student include: University Honors College Scholar,  winner of the 2021 Harriet F. Montague Award, and President of the UB Undergraduate Math Club. Shapiro has completed research on Markov Chains through a nationally recognized program at the University of Connecticut, has been a Peer Mentor in the Honors College,  has served as an Ambassador of both the Honors College and the College of Arts and Sciences, and has served as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in three separate departments — Mathematics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science. 
  • Sarah Muldoon to deliver a session on modeling and analyzing neuroimaging data across scales
    11/3/20
    Statisticians from across upstate New York will descend on UB May 2-4 for UP-STAT 2022, the 10th joint conference of the Upstate Chapters of the American Statistical Association. Sarah Muldoon, associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, UB College of Arts and Sciences, will deliver a special invited session on modeling and analyzing neuroimaging data across scales. Visit the conference website.  Read the story by David J. Hill.
  • CNN reports on interdisciplinary paper by Dane Taylor, Jingjie Hu, and Brian Quigley
    11/3/20
    CNN Health—We really did buy more alcohol during the early pandemic, study finds:  As many U.S. states implemented stay-at-home orders beginning in March 2020, anecdotes reported a surge in alcohol sales, raising concerns about increased alcohol use and associated ills. The surveillance report from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism provides monthly U.S. alcohol sales data from a subset of states, allowing an investigation of this potential increase in alcohol use. Meanwhile, anonymized human mobility data released by companies such as SafeGraph enables an examination of the visiting behavior of people to various alcohol outlets such as bars and liquor stores. The study's coauthors are: Yingjie Hu, assistant professor in the department of geography;  Brian Quigley, a research assistant professor of medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; and, Dane Taylor, assistant professor in the department of mathematics. Their study examines changes to alcohol sales and alcohol outlet visits during COVID-19 and their geographic differences across states. See research news by Charlotte Hsu.
  • Hanfeng Li named to AMS 2021 Class of Fellows
    11/3/20
    The University at Buffalo Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that the American Mathematical Society has named Professor Hangfeng Li a member of the 2021 Class of Fellows. The international honor places Professor Li among the world's outstanding mathematicians for his contributions to algebraic dynamics and operator algebras. He joined UB Mathematics in 2005, and is currently teaching MTH 424/524, “Survey of Fourier Series Methods”. His main research interest is on noncommutative geometry and dynamical systems, especially connections between operator algebras and dynamical systems. Professor Li's recent work concentrates on actions of countable sofic groups and algebraic actions of general countable (amenable) groups. Read the article by Charlotte Hsu.

UB Math Student Spotlight

  • Tyler Glover wins the 2021 Math Summer Scholarship
    1/11/22
    The UB Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Tyler Glover, a junior majoring in Mathematics, is the recipient of the 2021 Math Summer Scholarship. Under the guidance faculty mentor, Dr. Joseph Hundley, Tyler designed a special Undergraduate Research project that involved studying methods of geometric construction beyond the standard straight edge and compass, as well as their limitations and the number systems associated with them. For example, a classic result of abstract algebra states that if a segment of length x can be constructed, given a straight edge, a compass, and a segment of length 1, then x must be a root of an irreducible polynomial with integer coefficients and degree equal to a power of two.
  • Destiny Diaz wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award
    8/22/20
    The University at Buffalo Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Destiny Diaz has won the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Award. The prestigious award is one of the most competitive and respected scientific fellowships in the U.S.  Diaz is completing a BS in mathematics with a minor in Spanish. Recently, Diaz received 2019 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. A Buffalo native, she is a member of the University Honors College and a Prosperity Fellow. In Fall 2019, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship will support her pursuit of graduate study in biostatistics at UB. The award provides three years of financial support within a five-year fellowship period, which amounts to a $34,000 annual stipend and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance to the graduate institution.
  • Mengyuan (Jason) Sun presents research poster at UB's 2021 Celebration of Academic Excellence
    1/11/22
    Congratulations to UB Mathematics major Mengyuan (Jason) Sun on being selected to present a research poster in the 2021 Celebration of Student Academic Excellence Poster Presentations". His work is titled "Synthesis of Doped 2d Transition Metal Chalcogenide". Sun will deliver an 8-minute oral presentation via Zoom, Wednesday, April 21. Everyone is welcome to attend the virtual event. UB Mathematics students who may be interested in doing their own research project or presentation in the future are particularly encouraged to attend. Learn more about the Celebration of Student Academic Excellence, and see messages from President Tripathi and Provost Weber, here.  See the full schedule of the poster sessions, here.
  • 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.