Around the Department

Wencai Liu has been awarded an IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) Early Career Scientist Prize in Mathematical Physics.
Peter Kuchment has been named a fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).
Anne Shiu will give an invited address at the AMS Fall Central Sectional Meeting in San Antonio.
Gregory Berkolaiko has been invited to spend the academic year 2024 - 2025 as a visiting scholar of the Institute for Advanced Study.
JM Landsberg has been appointed to an Owen Professorship in Mathematics.
Math major Kevin Le has been named an Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
Vanessa Coffelt and Bo Zhu have been selected for Department of Mathematics outstanding service awards, and Kendra Kilmer and Yaroslav Vorobets have been selected for Department of Mathematics outstanding teaching awards.
Angie Allen, Ali Foran, and Alex Hening have received College of Arts and Sciences Awards for 2024: Angie Allen received a Faculty Excellence Award; Ali Foran received an Early Career Teaching Award; and Alex Hening received a Research Impact Award.
Wencai Liu has been named a Simons Fellow for 2024.
Xiaoyu Su has been selected to receive a 2024 Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching.
The 22nd Annual Mathematics and Statistics Fair will host mathematics games, puzzles, activities, arts, crafts, and more on the first floor of Blocker building on Saturday, February 24, from 9am to 2:30pm. More info on the event.
Assistant Professor Sherry Gong has been awarded an NSF CAREER Grant
Assistant Professor Alex Hening has been awarded an NSF CAREER Grant
Texas A&M will host the Texas Analysis and Mathematical Physics Symposium (TexAMP) 2024, Feb. 9 - 11
Distinguished Professor Guoliang Yu has been awarded a Gauss Professorship by the Goettingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Spectral Theory and Applications Conference, October 12-15, 2023. The conference celebrates Distinguished Professor Peter Kuchment and his contributions to the field of spectral theory.
Wencai Liu, with Svetlana Jitomirskaya, has just received the Frontiers of Science Award at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science.
Department Outstanding Teaching Awards went to Irina Bobkova and Constantin Onica. Department Outstanding Service Awards went to David Manuel and Philip Yasskin.
Instructional Professor Oksana Shatalov wins the 2023 Public Engagement and Outreach Award, and Applied Mathematics Major William Frendreiss wins a 2023 Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, from the College of Arts & Sciences.
Applied Mathematics Major William Frendreiss has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to join the Georgia Tech ACO program in interdisciplinary math and computer science. He has been advised in undergraduate research and thesis at TAMU by Assistant Professor Wencai Liu and by Professor Matthew Young.
The Mathematics and Statistics Fair will be held on April 15, 2023. This event is free and open to all ages, featuring problem-solving, games, puzzles, mathematical arts and crafts, and a public lecture.
Peter Kuchment has been selected as Distinguished Rothschild Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge.
Irina Bobkova and Jonas Luhrmann have been awarded NSF CAREER grants.
Sue Geller has been selected as Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Class of 2023.
Chia-Yu Chang (advisor JM Landsberg) and Ka Ho Wong (advisor Tian Yang) have been selected to receive the department's Guseman Prize for graduate students.
The 2022 High School Math Contest on campus on November 12 was a great success, with about 270 students from around 45 different schools, coaches, and parents participating.
The Texas A&M University Department of Mathematics is ranked 19th in the world in the latest US News & World Report ranking of Best Global Universities for Mathematics.
The Texas A&M University Department of Mathematics is highly ranked in the most recent Research.com data. See summary in the latest Hagler Institute Newsletter.
Chun-Hung Liu has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant.
Jennifer Whitfield has been awarded an Eppright Professorship for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence.
Jennifer Whitfield has been selected to receive an Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching.
Priyanga Ganesan has been selected to receive an Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching.
2021-22 Departmental Awards for Outstanding Teaching go to Vanessa Coffelt and Todd Schrader, and those for Outstanding Service to Kathryn Bollinger and Rob Rahm. See the citations.
Oksana Shatalov has been selected to receive a Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. See the College of Science news article.
Texas A&M University will host the Mathematics and Statistics Fair on Saturday, February 26, 2022 in Blocker. The fair will be fun for family members of all ages.
Simon Foucart is named Director of the Center for Approximation and Mathematical Data Analytics (CAMDA), formerly the Center for Approximation Theory.
Patricia Alonso Ruiz has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant.
Two former Texas A&M postdocs, Luis David Garcia Puente and Jonathan Hauenstein, both mentored by Frank Sottile, were selected as Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, Class of 2022.
Travis Dillon, former TAMU REU student mentored by Matthew Young, receives the 2022 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student, for collected works.
Priyanga Ganesan (advisors Michael Brannan and Eric Rowell) is the fall 2021 recipient of the Dr. Joseph Newton Graduate Student Service Award.