New biography of former faculty IUB Math faculty member María Wonenburger just published
A new biography of María Wonenburger written by María José Souto and Ana Tarrío will be presented on February 22 in A Coruña, Spain.
Two Teams with IUB Math Grads Finish in Top 5 of all 2023 Erdős Data Science Boot Camp Projects
Teams 20 and 27 with members from IUB Math finished in the top 5 of all 2023 Erdős Data Science Boot Camp projects!
Jim Davis interviewed at Bloomington’s Comedy Attic
Professor Jim Davis interviewed at Bloomington’s Comedy Attic
Dr. Antonia Bluher ’83 to be honored with 2023 IU Distinguished Alumni Service Award
Dr. Antonia Bluher, who received her honors bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Indiana University in 1983, will receive a 2023 IU Distinguished Alumni Service Award during celebrations over Homecoming weekend this coming October.
IU hosts twin conferences
The 10th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2023) and the 39th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXXIX) take place together at Indiana University Bloomington on June 19 – 23, 2023. Details are available at .
Graduate student member of prize-winning team
Mathematics and Statistics graduate student Woojeon Kim and team-mates have won the Spring 2023 Erdos Institute Project Competition.
Elizabeth Housworth receives Gordon Award
Mathematics and Statistics Professor Elizabeth Housworth has received the 2023 Gordon Faculty Award from IU's Division of Student Affairs.
Faculty Annie Baugh and Michael Hill receive grant for course improvements
New Mathematics lecturers Annie Baugh and Michael Hill each received grants to improve the courses they will coordinate in the coming academic year.
2023 Annual Mathematics Awards Presentation
2023 Annual Mathematics Awards
Math and Music Celebration planned for April 10
April is Math Awareness Month--a Math and Music Celebration event is planned for April 10.
Dr. Holly Attenborough '13 interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio
Mathematics PhD alumna Dr. Holly Attenborough '13 was recently interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio.
The Mathematics Department community celebrated Lunar New Year with a special tea on Friday, January 20.
Lunar New Year, which began on January 22, is celebrated widely throughout East Asia and marks the beginning of spring and the start of a new lunar cycle.
Visiting Lecturer positions / Fall 2023
Visiting Lecturer positions beginning Fall 2023
Former Zorn postdoc Victoria Noquez returns for research collaboration (and magic show)
Victoria Noquez, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California, and former IU Zorn postdoctoral fellow, returned to campus this week for research collaboration. She also gave a magic show.
‘Life is math:' The University Collections to open 'Unity in Variety' exhibition of Morton Bradley's works
The geometric colorful sculptures of Morton Bradley, whose art decorates the Math Department's space in Rawles Hall, are featured in a new exhibition on campus.
Math faculty awarded Summer Instructional Development Fellowship
Visiting lecturer Dr. Bartosz Langowski and Academic Specialist Chris Parks were awarded a Summer Instructional Development Fellowship (SIDF) from IU's Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning.
Math Education major Zayn Karim earns Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis scholarship
Mathematics Education major Zayn Karim has earned one of two 2022 Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis scholarships.
IU College of Arts and Sciences Alumnus Philip Dybvig Wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics
Dybvig — who majored in Mathematics and Physics at IU — received the award in recognition of his research about bank runs and liquidity
Julia Plavnik awarded Humboldt Fellowship
Julia Plavnik awarded Humboldt Fellowship
Michael Larsen and Ayelet Lindenstrauss Awarded Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study
Michael Larsen and Ayelet Lindenstrauss Awarded Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study
Mathematics Alumni Newsletter
The 2022 Mathematics Alumni Newletter is now available.
New book on Riemann integral published
Professor Emeritus Alberto Torchinsky has just published a new book on the classical topic of the Riemann integral.
IU Bloomington team wins seventh annual Society of Actuaries international student research case study challenge
IU Bloomington team wins seventh annual Society of Actuaries international student research case study challenge
2022 Annual Mathematics Awards Presentation
2022 Annual Mathematics Awards
IU Team advances to Finals of 2022 Student Research Case Study Challenge
A team of five IU undergraduates has advanced to the final round of the 2022 Student Research Case Study Challenge.
New PDE book by David Hoff
A new graduate textbook in partial differential equations by Professor Emeritus David Hoff has been published by the American Mathematical Society as part of its Mathematical Surveys and Monographs series..
New complex analysis book by Vladimir Eiderman
A new complex analysis textbook by Rothrock Senior Lecturer Dr. Vladimir Eiderman has been published.
Julia Plavnik awarded NSF Career grant
Mathematics Charlotte Ann Griffin Assistant Professor Julia Plavnik has been awarded an NSF Career grant.
Julia Plavnik receives Outstanding Faculty Mentor award
Julia Plavnik, Charlotte Ann Griffin Assistant Professor, was selected by the IU Center of Excellence for Women & Technology to receive the 2022 Outstanding Faculty Mentor award.
Louis Fan awarded grants to study virus dynamics
Mathematics assistant professor Louis Fan has been awarded two grants to study the dynamics of viruses.
Young alums share their stories
Four young College alums, all working as consultants, visited us virtually to share their stories and experiences with our current students.
IU Math PhD grad Toan T. Nguyen wins SIAM prize
IU PhD graduate Toan T. Nguyen of Pennsylvania State University has won the 2022 SIAM T. Brooke Benjamin Prize in Nonlinear Waves.
Michael Larsen and Ayelet Lindenstrauss awarded Simons Fellowships
IU Math faculty members Michael Larsen and Ayelet Lindenstrauss were each named 2022 Simons Fellows.
Math featured at IU Science Fest 2021
After going virtual in 2020, Science Fest returned to campus this year on Saturday, October 9.
IU Mathematics Zorn postdoctoral fellow Dr. Victoria Noquez will appear on The CW channel’s television show Penn & Teller: Fool Us’’
IU Mathematics Zorn postdoctoral fellow Dr. Victoria Noquez will appear on The CW channel’s television show Penn & Teller: Fool Us’’
IU Math co-sponsors virtual screening of film “Secrets of the Surface: the Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani”
In partnership with the Hamilton-Lugar School of Global and International Studies (HLSGIS) and the Center of Excellence for Women in Technology, the Math Department co-sponsored a virtual screening of the film “Secrets of the Surface: the Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani” as part of IU Cinema’s Collaborative Creations program.
Mathematics Alumni Newsletter
The 2021 Mathematics Alumni Newletter is now available.
Mathematics Alumni Newsletter
The 2021 Mathematics Alumni Newletter is now available.
IU Mathematics faculty member Julia Plavnik awarded Simons Collaboration Grant on Global Categorical Symmetries
IU Mathematics faculty member Julia Plavnik awarded Simons Collaboration Grant on Global Categorical Symmetries
Three PhD students interning for regional companies
Three IU Mathematics PhD students are working as paid interns for diverse regional industries this summer.
Dóminique Kemp is the first African-American to earn a PhD in mathematics at Indiana University.
Dóminique Kemp is the first African-American to earn a PhD in mathematics at Indiana University.
Graduate Student Daniel Condon to teach a course at the Collins Living-Learning Center
An activity driven approach to understanding the game-theoretic aspects of voting procedures, districting, and district apportionment.
2021 Math Awards Ceremony
2021 Math Awards Ceremony
2021 Math Awards Ceremony (VIDEO)
2021 Math Awards Ceremony recorded video
Michael Larsen to speak at 2022 ICM
Mathematics Distinguished Professor Michael Larsen has been invited to speak at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians, to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia.
David Fisher to speak at 2022 ICM
Distinguished Professor David Fisher, the Ruth N. Halls Professor of Mathematics, has been invited to speak at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians, to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia
IU team wins Actuary case study challenge
IU team wins Actuary case study challenge
Colleen Delaney earns Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award
Zorn postdoctoral fellow Dr. Colleen Delaney has earned one of four 2021 IU Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Awards.
David Fisher, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Mathematics, is named to Distinguished rank
David Fisher, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Mathematics, is named to Distinguished rank
Professor Russell Lyons named 2021 Simons Fellow
IU Math faculty member Professor Russell Lyons was named a 2021 Simons Fellow.
M106 Coordinator position
“M106 Coordinator” position.
Basic Skills Coordinator position
“Basic Skills Coordinator” position.
IU Professor Larry Moss to deliver webcast on Math and Democracy
Larry Moss, who is co-teaching a course this Fall on "Math and Democracy" with Professor Armando Razo from Political Science, will deliver a webcast: "What Is a Fair Election? And What Does Math Have to Do with It?"
John Brown '12 awarded Knowles Teaching Fellowship
Indiana University math graduate John Brown was chosen by the Knowles Teacher Initiative as a member of its 2020 Cohort of Teaching Fellows.
Alum Eric Langowski '18 featured on College "All Careers Considered" podcast
IU mathematics alum Eric Langowski '18 was interviewed recently by the College's Walter Center as part of its series "All Careers Considered" podcast, produced in conjunction with the Themester on Democracy.
Mathematics Alumni Newsletter
The 2020 Mathematics Alumni Newletter is now available.
New SIAM executive director Suzanne Weekes, an IUB math alum
Suzanne Weekes, an IUB math alum, is the new executive director of SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
David Fisher awarded Simons Fellowship
Ruth N. Halls Professor of Mathematics David Fisher will be a Simons Fellow in the Mathematical Sciences for the upcoming academic year.
Two math majors become 2020 Goldwater Scholars
Liz Dietrich and Kelli Michaels are on this year's list of winners
2020 Graduates
Congratulations to our 2020 graduates from the Department of Mathematics!
2020 Annual Mathematics Awards Presentation Video
2020 Annual Mathematics Awards Presentation Video
2020 Annual Mathematics Awards Presentation
2020 Annual Mathematics Awards Presentation
Incoming Zorn Postdoctoral Fellow Paolo Piersanti wins "Best Thesis" award from Hong Kong Mathematics Society
Paolo Piersanti, who will join our faculty this fall as a Zorn Postdoctoral Fellow, was selected by the Hong Kong Mathematical Society as this year's winner of its best thesis award.
Linda McKinley awarded Indiana MAA 2020 Teaching Award
Mathematics Senior Lecturer Linda McKinley wins Indiana MAA Distinguished Teaching Award
Colleen Delaney, Zorn Fellow, awarded NSF postdoctoral research fellowship
Dr. Colleen Delaney, a Zorn Fellow in the Department of Mathematics, has been awarded an NSF postdoctoral research fellowship.
Dylan Thurston elected as Member at Large of the American Math Society Council
IU Math faculty member Dylan Thurston has been elected as Member at Large of the American Math Society Council
IU Bloomington senior named Marshall Scholar
Math major Tom Sweeney is one of 46 recipients of the scholarship in 2020
NEW ENDOWED CHAIR AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NAMED FOR ESTEEMED MATHEMATICIAN MADAN LAL PURI
A recent gift to Northwestern will create a new endowed chair in the Department of Mathematics — the Madan Lal Puri Professorship.
Kevin Zumbrun, newly elected to fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Kevin Zumbrun, newly elected to fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Julian Gass earns Goldwater Scholarship
Mathematics and physics major Julian Gass was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship.
Orix: a collaborative art exhibit proposed for Bloomington Trades District
IU Math faculty member Matthias Weber and Jiangmei Wu of Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design have submitted a proposal for artwork in the new Trades District.
Larry Moss Semi-Finalist "We are Mathematics" Video
The National Science Foundation held a video contest that allowed NSF-supported researchers to showcase their work in a way that is exciting and accessible to a broad audience. Larry Moss's submission, Math Inspired by Inference, was a semifinalist. To vote for your favorite entry for the People's Choice Award, visit: https://wearemathematics2019.skild.com/skild2/wearemathematics2019/viewEntryVoting.action
IU Bloomington senior named one of 16 Churchill Scholars
Anthony Coniglio, a senior at Indiana University Bloomington, is one of 16 Churchill Scholars for the 2019-20 academic year.
Giorgini wins the Cuozzo Prize
Zorn Postdoctoral Fellow Andrea Giorgini wins the Cuozzo Prize
2017 Math alumna Jennifer Huang has been named a 2018 Rhodes Scholar.
2017 Math alumna Jennifer Huang has been named a 2018 Rhodes Scholar.
Quanta article highlights the work of David Fisher and colleagues
David Fisher's work on Zimmer's conjecture explained for a popular audience in Quanta.
IU Team Semi-Finalists in the Society of Actuaries Challenge 2018
All American finalists and semifinalists in the Society of Actuaries Challenge of 2018 are from Indiana!
Linda McKinley receives the 2018 Gordon Faculty Award
Linda McKinley received the 2018 Gordon Faculty Award.
Nam Le to be Honored with Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
Nam Le will receive a 2018 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from Indiana University.
2018 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) call for applications
The Department of Mathematics at Indiana University Bloomington has one of the longest-running Research Experiences for Undergraduates programs in the nation.
Zorn Postdoctoral position
Pending budget approval, the Department of Mathematics seeks applications for at least one Zorn Research Postdoctoral Fellowships beginning in the Fall of 2018.
Work of faculty member David Fisher subject of IPAM Workshop
Work on Zimmer's Conjecture by department faculty member David Fisher with Aaron Brown and Sebastian Hurtado Salazar will be the subject of an Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics workshop January 22-26 at UCLA.
Ciprian Demeter Invited to Give ICM Lecture
Ciprian Demeter is an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) which will be held August 1 - 9, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
James Davis Elected AMS Fellow
James Davis was elected into the 2018 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society for contributions to geometric topology, especially through surgery theory, and for exposition.
Assistant or Associate Professor position
The Department of Mathematics seeks applications for a tenured or tenure-track position with appointment beginning in Fall 2018.
Work of faculty member David Fisher subject of Bourbaki Seminar
Work on Zimmer's Conjecture by department faculty member David Fisher with Aaron Brown and Sebastian Hurtado Salazar was the subject of a Bourbaki Seminar in October presented by Serge Canat.
Mathematics alumna Elizabeth Oates Featured in New College Magazine
Mathematics and Economics (B.A. ’07, Economics, Mathematics) Alumna Elizabeth Oats is featured in the new The College Magazine "20 under 40" feature.
Russ Lyons's 60th Birthday Honored by Conference: Elegance in Probability
Asaf Nachmias, Ron Peled, and Yuval Peres have organized a conference, Elegance in Probability, to honor Indiana University mathematician Russ Lyons's 60th birthday.
Team with IU Student Kushal Shah Wins Second Place in a Hackathon
The company 84.51(degrees), headquartered in Cincinnati, does the analytics for Kroger. The weekend after the first week of class, they sponsored a "hackathon"--an overnight coding event.
Work of faculty member Ciprian Demeter subject of Bourbaki Seminar
Work on the Vinogradov Mean Value Theorem by department faculty member Ciprian Demeter with Larry Guth and Jean Bourgain was the subject of a Bourbaki Seminar in June presented by Lillian Pierce.
New Methods for Zimmer's Conjectures the subject of an IPAM Workshop
The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA is sponsoring a workshop on the breakthrough mathematical approaches to Zimmer's Conjectures developed by IU Professor David Fisher and mathematical colleagues Aaron Brown and Sebastian Hurtado Salazar.
Kevin Zumbrun selected as a Fellow of the SIAM, Class of 2017
Kevin Zumbrun has been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Class of 2017.
Baptiste Dejean named a 2017 Goldwater Scholar
Baptiste Dejean, of Indiana University Bloomington, was named a 2017 Goldwater Scholar.
Mihai Ciucu and Dylan Thurston selected as AMS Fellows
Two Mathematics Department faculty were selected as AMS Fellows, Class of 2017.
Blake Barker Wins the 2016 Richard C DiPrima Prize
Blake Barker won the Richard C. DiPrima prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his PhD thesis written here under the direction of Professor Kevin Zumbrun.
Boucher Professor Vladimir Turaev Wins Monograph Prize
Boucher Professor Vladimir Turaev and Alexis Virelizier have won the 2016 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize for their monograph Monoidal Categories and Topological Field Theory.
Thomas Dauer Wins Provost's Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award
Thomas Dauer was honored with a Provost's Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award for his work with mentor Professor Marlies Gerber.
Professor Emeritus Eric Bedford Awarded the 2015 Stefan Bergman Prize
Eric Bedford and Jean-Pierre Demailly were awarded the 2015 Stefan Bergman Prize.
Noah Snyder Wins Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
Assistant professors in astronomy, art history, mathematics, public affairs and sociology have been named as Indiana University Bloomington’s Outstanding Junior Faculty for the 2015-16 academic year.
Professor Emeritus William Ziemer won the 2016 Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan Outstanding Paper Prize
Professor Emeritus William Ziemer has won the 2016 Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan Outstanding Paper Prize for his article "Aspects of area formulas by way of Luzin, Rado and Reichelderfer on metric measure spaces," co-authored with Niko Marola.
Two Indiana University professors named American Mathematical Society Fellows
Two Indiana University mathematicians have been named 2016 fellows of the American Mathematical Society for their outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication and utilization of mathematics.
Göttingen University's Mathematical Institute welcomes Humboldt scholar Professor James F. Davis
Prof. Dr. James F. Davis to work on the classification of high dimensional manifolds
Kevin Zumbrun honored for best paper in partial differential equations
IU mathematician honored for best paper in partial differential equations.
Michael Mandell named an AMS Fellow
Michael Mandell, a professor of mathematics at Indiana University Bloomington's College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Madan Puri selected as 2014 Samuel S. Wilks Award winner
Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Madan L. Puri received one of the American Statistical Association’s most prestigious honors.
John Ewing awarded Brown University Alumni Award
John H. Ewing, President of Math for America, is the 2013-14 Horace Mann Medalist. Given annually by Brown’s Graduate School at Commencement, the medal honors an alumnus or alumna who has made significant contributions in his or her field, inside or outside of academia.
Nam Le wins Vietnam’s scientific prize
IU's newest mathematician receives Vietnam's highest honor in field for young academics.
Vladimir Touraev receives $2.7 million to establish center in Russia
Vladimir Touraev, a Russian high school math teacher in the mid-1970s who 30 years later would become the first named professor in the Indiana University Department of Mathematics, has been awarded over $2.7 million to establish a new mathematics laboratory in Russia.
Roger Teman named IU Distinguished Professor
Described as “among the five best and most influential applied mathematicians alive today,” Temam is credited with defining the domain of discourse in several large areas of applied mathematics, including numerical computation of fluid flows, slow dynamics and inertial manifolds, turbulence theory, and climate modeling.
Marlies Gerber awarded NSF S-STEM grant for IU undergraduates
Indiana University Bloomington has been awarded over $614,000 by the National Science Foundation to recruit, support and retain undergraduate students majoring in astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics over the next five years.
Professors Bercovici, Larsen, Wang, and Zumbrun named AMS Fellows
Indiana University Bloomington’s Department of Mathematics led all other math departments at U.S. higher learning institutions with four faculty members selected this year as Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
Charles Livingston receives Distinguished Teacher Award
Charles Livingston, Professor of Mathematics, has been credited by his peers with teaching the most diverse set of courses in the history of the department -- 38 courses with distinct catalog numbers -- has received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
Netz Katz promoted to Distinguished rank
The rank of distinguished professor, the most prestigious academic appointment Indiana University can bestow upon its faculty, was created by the IU Board of Trustees in 1967. The title is conferred by the university president with approval of the board.
Michael Larsen receives Moore Prize from American Mathematical Society
Michael Larsen, an Indiana University Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Mathematics, has received the E.H. Moore Research Article Prize from the American Mathematical Society.
American Mathematical Society announced its inaugural class of Fellows
The AMS Fellows program seeks to create an enlarged class of mathematicians recognized by their peers as distinguished for their contributions to the profession and to honor excellence.
William Yu earns prestigious Hertz fellowship
Indiana University Bloomington alumnus Yun William Yu has been named a 2012 Hertz Fellow.
IU mathematician offers unified theory of dark matter, dark energy, altering Einstein field equations
Shouhong Wang, a professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Mathematics, and Tian Ma, a professor at Sichuan University, suggest the law of energy and momentum conservation in spacetime is valid only when normal matter, dark matter and dark energy are all taken into account.
Senior math major John Brown receives Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Indiana University senior John R. Brown has been named a 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholar.
Roger Temam elected AAAS Fellow
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has awarded the distinction of Fellow to a record 10 Indiana University faculty members this year.
Professor Russ Lyons' critique featured in the New York Times
An Indiana University Bloomington mathematician's recently published critique of a highly publicized study on obesity being socially contagious is now also garnering international attention.
Professor Nets Katz solves the Erdös Distinct Distances Problem
A mathematician in the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences is being credited with resolving a 65-year-old problem in combinatorial geometry that sought to determine the minimum number of distinct distances between any finite set of points in a plane.
IU Mathematics Major Esther Uduehi named 2011 Rhodes Scholar
Esther Uduehi, a senior at Indiana University Bloomington majoring in chemistry and mathematics, has been named a Rhodes Scholar for 2011.
IU's four new 2010 Goldwater Scholars - two Math majors, two Math minors!
Setting a record for the university, four Indiana University Bloomington undergraduates have been selected to receive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships this year.
Roger Temam named 2009 SIAM Fellow
Roger M. Temam, was named to the SIAM Fellows, Class of 2009, for his contributions to differential equations, numerical analysis, and the Navier-Stokes equations.
IU's Mutembwa selected 2010 Rhodes Scholar
IU's Mutembwa selected 2010 Rhodes Scholar
Bill Wheeler wins Pinnell Distinguished Service Award
This award, also known as the W. George Pinnell Award for Outstanding Service, honors faculty members who are considered to be shining examples of dedication and excellence in service to others.
Ciprian Demeter awarded Sloan Fellowship
A newly arrived mathematician to Indiana University has been named among 118 young scientists, economists and mathematicians as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.
WSJ: Mathematician is the best job!
Mathematicians Land Top Spot in New Ranking of Best and Worst Occupations in the U.S.
Math major William Yu wins Marshall Scholarship
Yun William Yu, a 19-year-old Indiana University student, this spring will graduate Phi Beta Kappa with majors in chemistry, mathematics and Germanic studies has been named a 2009 Marshall Scholar by the British government.
David Fisher wins Radcliffe Fellowship
David Fisher, an associate professor at Indiana University, is a mathematician with broad interests in analysis, dynamics, and geometry.
Hari Bercovici awarded the 2007 Bela Szokefalvi-Nagy Medal
The Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged is pleased to announce hereby that the Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy Medal for the year 2007 has been awarded to Hari Bercovici.
The College of Arts