The URI Calc-Bowl is back in Spring 2025. Calc-Bowl is a lively playoff competition between teams to test the teams’ math knowledge. Pre-calculus and calculus questions are presented in multiple-choice format. There will be 10-15 teams consisting of three to five members. One multiple-choice problem will be presented at a time. The first team to […]

Congratulations to Professors Li Wu and Bill Kinnersley on their 2024 Recognition of Excellence: Student Learning Outcomes Assessment. Professors Wu and Kinnersley are recognized for their outstanding work in learning outcomes assessment on behalf of the Mathematics BA/BS program during the 2024 assessment cycle. The letter of recognitions says: “Faculty peer reviewers commended your efforts […]

Here is the story of Jonah Coppolelli, our Applied Mathematics major, and his relationship with mathematics in his own words. “My name is Jonah Coppolelli, and I am a senior dual majoring in Applied Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering. I am thrilled to share that I recently accepted a position in MTU Aero-Engines’ Rotational Engineering Program. […]

Join us on February 3rd, Monday, at 2:00pm, Lippitt Hall 4th floor Auditorium, for an the inaugural talk: “Modeling the dynamics of centrosome movement” by Dr. Sarah Olson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Abstract: In this talk I will first given an overview of my mathematical journey and how I ended up focusing on computational biology research. […]

The First International On-line Knot Theory Congress takes place February 1 – 5, 2025. This conference gathers leading mathematicians in low-dimensional topology around the world such as Dr. Louis Kauffman and Dr. Edward Witten. Our faculty member Dr. Pengyu Liu has been invited to present his research at this prestigious conference. Dr. Liu will present […]

Congratulation to our faculty member Nhu Nguyen! Nhu has been awarded an NSF grant: DMS-2407669 Collaborative Research: Stochastic Functional Systems: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications. Dates: August 1, 2024 — July 31, 2027 (Estimated). Amount: $198,173.00. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2407669&HistoricalAwards=false ABSTRACT: The time evolution of many physical, biological, and engineering systems is described by functional differential equations, where the […]

Congratulation to our faculty member Kelum Gajamannage! Kelum has been awarded an NSF grant: DMS-2418826 LEAPS-MPS: Hadamard Deep Autoencoders and Alternating Directional Methods of Multipliers for Manifold Learning Enabled Distance Preserving Matrix Completion. Dates: September 1, 2024 — August 31, 2026 (Estimated). Amount: $249,926.00. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2418826&HistoricalAwards=false ABSTRACT: Data sampled from real-world applications such as image inpainting […]

Graduate student Emily Barranca successfully defended her doctoral dissertation this July, entitled “Recognizing induced subgraph and tree structure from the adjacency spectrum of a graph.” Her research, advised by Dr. Michael Barrus, combines principles of linear algebra and graph theory. Emily currently has two papers in preparation for publication based on her doctoral work. After […]

Erin Denette, a Teaching Professor at the Math Department, is a recipient of the A&S Dean’s 2024 Teaching Excellence Award. Thank you, Erin, for all you do for the Math Department, the College of Arts and Sciences, and our students! Awards will be presented at the End of Year Celebration and Excellence Award Ceremony at […]

April 15, 2024 at 1:00pm, Lippitt Hall Room 205 Title: “Fitting Ideals Without a Presentation” Abstract: For any finite holomorphic map-germ, a classic paper of Mond and Pellikaan established that the presentation matrix of the source as a module over the target can be chosen square and symmetric, and provide an algorithm for producing such […]