Tim Pennings, an award-winning educator, academic leader, and researcher, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Mathematics at a ceremony on Thursday, October 21, 2021 in Ames, Iowa. The award recognizes outstanding alumni from the Department of Mathematics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State. Pennings, professor and … Continue reading Tim Pennings honored with Distinguished Alumni Award
Bridge the Gap, a post-baccalaureate program in the Department of Mathematics, was selected as one of INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine’s 2021 Inspiring Programs in STEM. Read more about the award here.
Here is a photo taken at the Graduate College Commencement ceremony on May 7 showing new Mathematics PhD graduates and their advisors. Can you tell who is who?
Congratulations Carolyn Reinhart for competing in the Three Minute Thesis finals and winning the People’s Choice Award! View her presentation: Graphs and Matrices: Modeling the World with Math What is 3MT: Three Minute Thesis? In the fall of each year, the Graduate College sponsors a Three-Minute Thesis Competition to challenge Iowa State graduate students to clearly … Continue reading 3MT People’s Choice Award Winner: Carolyn Reinhart
Fall semester opens with an exciting development for Iowa State mathematics. The department has established the Scott Hanna Professorship and the Scott Hanna Faculty Fellowship with the appointment of two faculty to these newly minted positions. Each award recipient will be formally recognized during a medallion ceremony on October 3 in the Cardinal Room of … Continue reading Named Position Ceremony
The Department of Mathematics at Iowa State University will be hosting the 5th Annual Meeting of Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Central States Section on October 19-20, 2019. The conference consists of three plenary talks, parallel sessions, and a poster session. The primary conference site is Carver Hall on the ISU Campus, although … Continue reading SIAM Central States Section
Looking for the Sonia Kovalevsky Day 2022? The link is here. Sonia Kovalevsky was a mathematician at a time when women were generally not allowed to hold professor positions. She became a great researcher as well as one of the first modern European women professors. Her significant work in mathematics and advocacy for women’s rights … Continue reading Sonia Kovalevsky Mathematics Day 2019