Announcements

(5/13) Hiring: Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies
(5/13) Commencement and Diploma Ceremony, May 18-19
(4/13) Wing Lectures on High-Dimensional Data, April 17-19
(3/13) 7th UR Math Olympiad Results.
(12/12) Math Faculty on AMS Committees.
(11/12) Profs. Cohen, Neisendorfer and Ravenel named AMS Fellows.
(11/12) Tenure-eligible and visiting positions for 2013-14 or later.
(9/12) Tony DeRose of Pixar Animation to give Fall 2012 Wing Lectures.
(6/12) 2012 Math graduates and their future plans.
(5/12) 2012 Commencement .
(4/12) Mihai Bailesteanu Named Natural Sciences Professor of the Year.
(4/12) 2012 Phi Beta Kappa Election.
(4/12) 6th UR Math Olympiad Results.
(3/12) UR Putnam team ranks 15th in nation.
(3/12) Adrien Treuille to give Spring 2012 Milton Wing Lectures.
(12/11) Prof. Fred Cohen elected to AMS committee.
(10/11) Dan Geba receives Goergen Teaching Award.
(9/11) Shannon Starr wins an NSA grant.
(9/11) Tom Tucker wins collaborative NSF grant.
(9/11) Ph.D. alumna Jan Pearce does well at Berea College.
(8/11) Sema Salur wins an NSF grant.
(8/11) Carl Mueller awarded a 3-year NSF grant.
(8/11) Google celebrates Fermat's last theorem on his 410th birthday.
(6/11) Naomi Jochnowitz wins UR Students' Association Natural Sciences Professor of the Year Award
(5/11) Study finds math tied with computer science for third and fourth highest paying major.
(5/11) 2011 Math graduates and their future plans.
(5/11) 2011 Incoming Graduate Students.
(3/11) Professor Mehmet Arikan has been awarded an FRG/NSF Grant.
(3/11) 5th UR Math Olympiad Results.
(3/11) Kevin Lin wins a honorable mention and the Rochester team ranks 12th in the 2010 Putnam Competition.
(3/11) 2011 Pi Day at UR featured an extensive program of lectures and special events.
(2/11) 2011 Faculty Hiring.
(2/11) Mathematician rated second best job of 2011. Most of the top 10 jobs are math-oriented.
(11/10) Rochester students have a strong performance in the 2010 Virginia Tech Regional Mathematics Contest.
(11/10) Billionaire investor Jim Simons calls for a Sputnik-type push for better math education.
(8/10) Internet collaboration leads to quick refutation of latest claimed P=NP proof.
(8/10) The 2010 Fields Medals, the highest awards in mathematics, have been announced. Terence Tao gives a summary of the medalists' achievements. Also, Tao describes the work of the Nevanlinna, Gauss, and Chern prize winners.
(7/10) 2010 Math graduates and their future plans.
(6/10) Fall 2010 incoming Graduate Students.
(6/10) 2010 Faculty Hiring.
(5/10) New UK education minister puts math first.
(4/10) 4th UR Math Olympiad results.
(3/10) The first Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize has been awarded to Grigori Perelman for his proof of the Poincare Conjecture.
(3/10) Xiaoqing Tang earns a honorable mention and the Rochester team places 14th in the 2009 Putnam competition.
(1/10) New York Times starts a new column about math.
(1/10) UR news story details accomplishments of the math department.
(11/09) Wall Street Journal reports on the Russian and American math cultures.
(10/09) Robert Ghrist kicks off the Milton Wing Lecture Series.
(9/09) Another math lover observed.
(7/09) Math is key to the highest paying careers.
(4/09) Arf-Kervaire problem solved.
(5/09) Fall 2009 Incoming Graduate Students.
(5/09) 2009 Faculty Hiring.
(5/09) 2009 Math graduates and their future plans.
(5/09) 2009 UR Math Diploma Ceremony.
(4/09) WeBWorK Featured in MAA Focus.
(4/09) 3rd UR Math Olympiad results.
(4/09) Andrew Niles '08 wins NSF graduate fellowship.
(3/09) Patrick Sheehan '11 Awarded Goldwater Scholarship.
(3/09) The UR Putnam team wins honorable mention by placing 10th in the country.
(2/09) Kristin Beck ('09) wins Churchill Scholarship.
(1/09) Math ranks first in another list of top careers.
(12/08) Steve Chu, former UR math and physics major and Nobel Prize Winner, has been appointed Secretary of Energy.
(12/08) Harvard economist Greg Mankiw explains why aspiring economists need math.
(9/08) Math lovers revealed at Todd Union.
(9/08) Mathematics tops list of low stress, high potential careers.
(9/08) BusinessWeek explains how advanced mathematics is revolutionizing business operations.
(8/08) Fred Cohen wins Goergen Award.
(8/08) One more Postdoctoral Appointment.
(6/08) Sandy Segal retires.
(5/08) Incoming graduate students, arriving fall 2008.
(5/08) 2008 Math graduates and their future plans.
(5/08) Math Majors Win Goldwater Scholarship
(4/08) Study finds that teaching abstractions might be better than teaching examples.
(4/08) 2nd UR Math Olympiad results
(3/08) 2007 UR Putnam results
(3/08) National panel recommends changes in math education, see articles here and here.
(2/08) 2008 Faculty Hiring.
(1/08) Andrew Niles wins Churchill Fellowship.
(1/08) Dan Geba wins NSF Career Award.
(1/08) Allan Greenleaf's work on invisibility continues to attract a huge amount of attention.
(12/07) David Heath accepts part time position at UR.
(11/07) UR undergraduates did well in the recent Virginia Tech Math Contest.
(6/07) In 2007 the department had a bumper crop of Ph.D. graduates.
(5/07) Incoming graduate students, arriving fall 2007.
(2/07) New postdocs, arriving fall 2007.
(5/07) 2007 Math graduates and their future plans.
(4/07) Departing postdocs.
(4/07) Joe Neisendorfer and Arnie Pizer will retire at the end of the 2006-2007 academic year.
(4/07) Read about 1st University of Rochester Math Olympiad Results.
(4/07) Read about UR results on the Putnam Exam.
(4/07) Three UR math majors win Goldwater Scholarships.
(4/07) Doug Ravenel was honored on his 60th birthday at a recent conference on homotopy theory.
(2/07) The department will host the First Upstate NY Probability Seminar on Friday and Saturday April 13 - 14, 2007.
(3/07) H.P. McKean to speak in Colloquium Series on Thursday, April 5, 2007
(3/07) First UR Math Olympiad to be held on March 31, 2007.
(2/07) Physicists Sarada Rajeev and Yonathan Shapir receive joint appointments in the department.
(1/07) Robert Penna wins a Churchill Scholarship.
(1/07) Maureen Gaelens replaces Fran Crawford as Department Administrator.
(12/06) Postdoctoral positions available for fall 2007.
(7/06) Download the Lecture Notes for the 2006 Rochester Summer School on Number Theory and Random Matrices.
(1/07) UR launches STEM Portal web page to better publicize mathematics and science at UR.
(12/06) Google's search engine uses mathematics of eigenvalues.
(11/06) Allan Greenleaf reveals the secrets of invisibility.
(11/06) UR students score highly at Virginia Tech Math Contest.
(8/06) New undergraduate problem solving seminar and math contest.
(6/06) 2006 Math Graduates and their future plans.
(5/06) 2006 Incoming Graduate Students
(2/06) 2006 Hiring
(3/06) Departing postdocs
(12/05) May - June Summer School and Conference on number theory and random matrices.
(3/06) 2005 undergraduate summer research participants
(1/06) Undergraduate Research: papers by Mark Yerrington and Sarah Zubairy.
(1/06) BusinessWeek Cover Story: How math is transforming the business world.
(3/06) Thursday, 3/9 Colloquium: James Arthur
(12/05) Conference in Honor of Joe Neisendorfer
(11/05) Colloquium Series brings distinguished mathematicians to UR.
(6/05) President Jackson: Mathematics is a Model Department.
(6/05) New Chairman: Steve Gonek
(6/05) New postdoctoral appointment: Ashkan Nikeghbali
(5/05) Congraulations to the Class of 2005: Graduating math majors and their future plans.
(2/05) New tenure-track appointment: Dimitri Gioev
(10/05) Ron Knill, visitor from New Orleans.
(6/05) Visitor: Lucia Fernandez
(07/04) New faculty!
(07/04) New graduate students!
(07/04) 2004 graduates and their future plans
(10/03) Interview: Professor Sanford Segal discusses his book Mathematicians under the Nazis on ABC radio.
(01/03) Article: An Integral Major (or, Can Calculus be Cool?) in the Rochester Review
(8/02) Article: College math on the rebound? in the Christian Science Monitor