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Celebrating the December 2014 commencement

A good crop of BA/BS, MS, and PhD graduates

Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the faculty and staff, gathered in December 17 to celebrate the graduation of a good number of students with BA/BS, MS, and PhD degrees in...

Posted: December 22, 2014, 11:43 PM

An impromptu gathering of statistics alumni

Dinner at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston

A dozen or so alumni of the department's PhD program in statistics took the opportunity to socialize over dinner during the August 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston. Shown in the...

Posted: August 23, 2014, 12:00 AM

New Faculty: Dr. Bedřich Sousedík

Dr. Bedřich Sousedík joins the department's faculty this fall.  His research is in the general area of numerical analysis and scientific computing.  Prior to coming to UMBC, Dr. Sousedík was a...

Posted: July 25, 2014, 11:38 PM

Jesse Smith, Math Major, in The Chronicle

The Program Behind This Math Major

A story and audio interview in the July 15, 2014 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education features Jesse Smith, a rising junior majoring in Mathematics with minor in Computer Science. Jesse...

Posted: July 23, 2014, 1:32 PM

A Send-off for Dr. Jon Bell

May 20, 2014

Dr. Jon Bell has announced his retirement as of the end of the Academic Year 2013-14.  He arrived at UMBC in 2000 as the Department Chair. After a reception in the department's lounge, faculty...

Posted: May 21, 2014, 1:45 PM

2014 DelMar Numerics Day at UMBC

Ragnar Winther keynote speaker

The 2104 DelMar Numerics Day took place on the UMBC campus on Saturday May 10. Dr. Ragnar Winther of University of Oslo was the keynote speaker. Dr. Matthias Gobbert and Dr. Andrei Draganescu were...

Posted: May 11, 2014, 10:52 AM

The 2014 CNMS Student Recognition Day

Outstanding students and facuty honored

The Ninth Annual Student Recognition Day of the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences was held on the afternoon of Friday May 2, 2014 in the University Ballroom. The event recognizes the...

Posted: May 11, 2014, 10:27 AM

MD-DC-VA Regional Meeting of MAA

Baradwaj, Gobbert, Neerchal, and Stanwyck make presentations

The MD-DC-VA Regional Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America was held in James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA on Saturday, April 26, 2014. Dr. Matthias Gobbert and Ms Raji...

Posted: May 1, 2014, 3:37 AM

AMS Sectional Meeting at UMBC

Saturday-Sunday, March 29-30, 2014

The Spring Eastern AMS Sectional Meeting took place on the UMBC campus on March 29–30, 2014 (Saturday and Sunday).   Four invited talks and a host of special sessions filled the two-day meeting's...

Posted: April 3, 2014, 3:37 PM

Kathleen Hoffman and lamprey locomotion

Interdisciplinary research in mathematical biology

Dr. Kathleen Hoffman is a member of an interdisciplinary team of researchers that studies neuromechanical properties of vertebrate locomotion using the lamprey as a model system.  The team,...

Posted: March 16, 2014, 2:33 PM