Math Matters – Spring 2025

  • Eric Weber

    Chair’s Message

    Eric Weber, Mathematics Department Chair, discusses student success initiatives, alumni engagement, and department support in this issue’s chair statement.

  • Headshot of Dr. Jonathan Mattingly

    Hearing the Will of the People in the Vote: The Mathematics of Quantifying Gerrymandering

    Gerrymandering, the partisan manipulation of district boundaries which are redrawn every decade, raises critical issues of fairness and proportional representation. Duke University’s Distinguished Professor, Jonathan Mattingly, discusses this pressing issue as an invited speaker for the Miller Family Endowed Mathematics Lecture Series.

    Recording available here

  • Interview photo of Dr. Butler

    Humans of Iowa State – Steve Butler

    Steve Butler, Morrill Professor and YouTube star, discusses his Iowa State story and what life as a campus celebrity is like.

  • A photo of the entrance to Beardshear Hall.

    2025 Awards Ceremony

    Join us on May 2nd, 2025, for the Department’s annual celebration of achievements. We’ll honor our undergraduate, graduate, and faculty members.

    See faculty award highlights from this year here.

    This event will be livestreamed on Friday, May 2nd, 2025 at 4:30PM CDT.

    Watch here

  • Alumni Colloquium: Mathematics as a Liberal Art

    In this year’s Alumni Colloquium, Al Erisman highlights how mathematics, beyond its scientific rigor, can illuminate everyday relationships, policy issues, and business purposes through simple to advanced examples, all without requiring any mathematical expertise.

    This event will be livestreamed on Friday, May 2nd, 2025, at 3:20PM CDT.

    Watch here

  • Portrait of Mathematics Student Ryan Friedhoff

    A Journey Through Numbers

    Mathematics and Data Science Senior Ryan Friedhoff reflects on his journey at Iowa State, his passion for math and data, and gives a glimpse of what is to come post-graduation.