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May 6, 2024
MATHEMATICS - Toys and the Pixar production company are the focus of two events hosted by the Department of Mathematics. Tadashi Tokieda, a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, speaks as part of a lecture series on Friday, May 10, in Fenton Hall, Room 110.
May 1, 2024
COMPUTER SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, PSYCHOLOGY - Success at the University of Oregon looks different for each student, from academic achievement to personal growth to career readiness.
February 26, 2024
MATHEMATICS - KEZI featured the fifth annual Eugene Youth Math Festival at McArthur Court. “Our goal is to inspire kids to learn more math by presenting them with a lot of different math-related activities, games, and experiments and see the beauty of it,” said Maria Nemirovskaya of the Department of Mathematics. “It's not just number crunching but that there's a lot behind actual math.”
February 13, 2024
MATHEMATICS - Children in the Eugene-Springfield area will have the opportunity to explore games, problem-solving activities, crafts and other hands-on math activities at the Eugene Youth Math Festival in McArthur Court Saturday, Feb. 24, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
November 20, 2023
MATHEMATICS - Professor Emeritus Gary Seitz passed away on Oct. 30, 2023. For 35 years, Seitz was a faculty member of the Department of Mathematics, serving as the department head at times and later as associate dean of the Division of Natural Sciences and publishing research.
November 15, 2023
MATHEMATICS - Professor Victor Ostrik received the 2024 Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory, awarded by the American Mathematical Society. The citation for this year's prize acknowledges Ostrik "for his fundamental contributions to the theory of tensor categories, which have already found deep applications in modular representation theory and Lie theory."
June 28, 2023
MATHEMATICS - University of Oregon undergrad Abby Lewis published a children’s book titled The Forest of Numbers in early June that introduces elementary school-aged students to mathematical concepts.
June 20, 2023
DATA SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS - Graduating students offer parting words and reflect on their time at the University of Oregon.
April 3, 2023
MATHEMATICS - UO senior Azusena Rosales Suares always did well in math. Her secret: find the patterns. Plus, from an early age math offered an escape into a world with its own universal language.
February 17, 2023
MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS - The University of Oregon will host two STEM-forward events Feb. 25: the Eugene Youth Math Festival and the Central Western Oregon Science Expo, both spearheaded by College of Arts and Sciences faculty members.
September 15, 2022
Seven faculty members have been recognized for their exceptional teaching with the 2022 Distinguished Teaching Awards. Recipients of the University of Oregon annual awards are tia north, Katie Lynch, Keli Yerian, Michael Aronson, Lara Bovilsky, David Steinberg and Tina Starr.
August 5, 2022
MATHEMATICS - A UO professor who worked with this year’s Fields Medal winner explains how mathematics is inherently collaborative.
April 6, 2022
MATHEMATICS - In November 1974, University of Oregon distance runner Steve Bence convinced the legendary Steve Prefontaine, his former teammate and close friend, to run in an outlandish event: the “Great Race.”
February 8, 2022
MATHEMATICS - The UO Department of Mathematics garnered a $2.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation for projects that train and mentor the next generation of mathematicians in Oregon.
October 8, 2021
The Division of Graduate Studies is proud to announce the 2021-2022 recipients of the prestigious Raymund Fellowship.