Math Graduate Teaching Assistant Santosh Ghimire receives the spring 2012 KSU Graduate Student Council Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence in the doctoral category.
Professor Pietro Poggi-Corradini receives an NSF-DMS award to support his research on Problems in Function Theory with Applications.
Assistant Professor Sarah Reznikoff receives an NSF-DMS award to support her research on Graph C*-algebras, special subalgebras, and applications.
The 2012 Kansas Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 13th and 14th, at Kansas State University.
Mathematics faculty will organize five special sessions at the regional American Mathematical Society meeting in Lawrence this Spring.
Professor Andy Bennett receives the 2012 MAA Kansas Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.
Assistant Professor Nathan Albin receives a KSU Faculty Development Award; an award from the KSU Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Faculty Enhancement Program; and an Air Force STTR subaward.
Associate Professor and I-Center Director Virginia Naibo has been featured in the sesquicentennial educational project Science in Kansas—150 years and counting sponsored by the Ad Astra Kansas Initiative.
The program "The Geometry of Topological D-Branes, Categories and Applications" will take place in Vienna.
The first one to support his research; the second one to organize a conference in campus this Fall.
Dakota Bixler, Joshua Ericson, Na Long, Brian Moore, Vincent Pigno, Shane Scott, Stephanie Stoway, and Hainan Zhang are I-Center Scholars for Fall 2011.
Derrick Hart and Zheng Hua join the Department as I-Center and M-Center Postdocs.
Nathan Albin and Roman Fedorov join the Department as tenure-track faculty
A conference devoted to geometric and algebraic aspects of mirror symmetry will be held at Kansas State University, November 3-6, 2011.
Assistant Professor Hrant Hakobyan receives an NSF Epscor First Award to support his research program on Quasiconformal Geometry of Fractal Spaces.
Professor and M-Center Director Yan Soibelman receives an NSF-DMS award to support his research program on Cohomological Hall algebra and motivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants.
Associate Professor and I-Center Director Virginia Naibo receives an NSF-DMS award to support her research program on Bilinear techniques in time-frequency and real analysis.
Lectures by nine mathematics alumni, three visiting professors, and two of our faculty and staff were the highlights of the 2010 Undergraduate Lecture Series in Mathematics at Kansas State University.
The first conference to be held in Italy, July 2-8; the second one in Croatia, July 11-15.
Kansas State University mathematics graduate Jeffrey Hicks is among 2,000 students nationally to receive a 2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
I-Center scholars Joshua Ericson and Hainan Zhang and Professor Pietro Poggi-Corradini examine how epidemics are spread in rural communities and how they can be effectively controlled.
Two teams of Kansas State University students successfully participated in the 2011 Mathematical Contest in Modeling, among 2,775 teams representing institutions from sixteen countries.
Pietro Poggi-Corradini will give three lectures on Random Walks and Electrical Networks hosted by the Center for Complex Network Approach to Epidemic Modeling and Simulation (EpiCenter).
Garrett Alston is invited speaker at two prestigious international research conferences this Summer
James Bailey, Brian Bishof, Eric Bunch, Joshua Ericson, Ya Gao, and Yuan Yan are I-Center Scholars for Spring 2011.
Professors Ricardo Castano-Bernard, Gerald Hoehn and Virginia Naibo have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations!
Kansas State University mathematics students came up with multiple victories at the recent 2011 Kansas Collegiate Mathematics Competition.
Four Kansas State University students will compete for 2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships. The students include: Sterling Braun, Fort Scott; Joshua Ericson, Junction City; Gage Brummer, Prairie Village; and Angela Grommet, Wichita.
The Center for Mirror Symmetry & Tropical Geometry (M-Center) opens
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Andrew Chermak on his recent article "A group-theoretic approach to a family of 2-local finite groups constructed by Levi and Oliver", Ann. of Math. (2) 171 (2010), no. 2, 881–978, in collaboration with Michael Aschbacher. Prof. Chermak adds to the list of current members of our Department to have authored or coauthored Annals papers, including Prof. Louis Pigno (Harmonic Analysis) and Prof. Alex Rosenberg (Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry & Representation Theory).
Assistant Professor Hrant Hakobyan has been awarded the 2010 Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics. Hakobyan was chosen for his joint paper with David A. Herron, “Euclidean quasiconvexity”, published in the Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ Mathematica 33 (2008), 205–230.
Joshua Ericson, Perla Salazar, and Hainan Zhang are I-Center Scholars for Fall 2010.
Our department will host the REU: Summer Undergraduate Mathematics Research at K-State (SUMaR) during the upcoming three summers.
Lectures by ten mathematics alumni, a visiting professor, and two of our faculty and staff were the highlights of the 2009 Undergraduate Lecture Series in Mathematics at Kansas State University.
Joshua Ericson, Jonathan Stacks, and Brian Tierney are I-Center Scholars for Spring 2010.
Perla Salazar is the recipient of a Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Scholarship awarded under the auspices of the American Mathematical Society.
Two teams of Kansas State University students successfully participated in the 2010 Mathematical Contest in Modeling, among 2,254 teams representing institutions from thirteen countries.
Kansas State University student Shane Scott is among 278 students nationally to win a 2010 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
Lectures by ten mathematics alumni, a visiting professor, and three of our faculty and staff were the highlights of the 2008 Undergraduate Lecture Series in Mathematics at Kansas State University.
K-State student Mike Reppert is among 1,500 students to win a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship.
A K-State student finished first and a K-State team tied for first in the 2009 Kansas Collegiate Mathematics Competition.
Mike Reppert received a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
This award has been established to recognize outstanding individual contributions in research for the purpose of the discovery and creation of new knowledge at KSU.
The scholarship recruits civilian scientists and engineers to work for the department and is for students that demonstrate potential for a successful career in research and development.
The KSU department of mathematics will host the The Second Graduate Research Conference in Algebra and Representation theory (May 24-May 25,2009). Invited speakers: Prof. A.Kirillov, University of Pennsylvania Prof. Y.Sommerhauser, University of South Alabama For more information visit the website This conference is supported by the National Science Foundation, grant DMS 0914836
In the end of March,2009 Pierre Schapira (Paris VI) will give a mini course on Index Theorems for DQ modules. He will also deliver the TWENTIETH HARRY E. VALENTINE LECTURE on Algebraic Analysis and Microlocal Analysis. Please visit the Events web-page for more information.
A team of Kansas State University students successfully participated in the 2009 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
These awards recognize individuals across campus who have had an impact on women pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.
Nicole Wayant, senior in mathematics and geography, has won the Abraham Anson Memorial Scholarship which is awarded by the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS).
Michael Reppert and Nicole Wayant are designated I-Center Scholars for Spring 2009.
Prof. Mark Gross, Principal Lecturer
Professor Mark Gross will deliver a series of lectures on Mirror Symmetry. In addition, there will be introductory mini-courses and contributed talks by regional and international experts in the field.
This conference is supported by the National Science Foundation, grant DMS 0735319
Nicole Wayant, senior in mathematics and geography, was awarded a second prize in an original research contest.
These awards are given for expository papers published in the American Mathematical Monthly. Auckly won his award for the article Solving the quartic with a pencil, American Mathematics Monthly 114 (2007), 29-39.
Lectures by nine mathematics alumni, a visiting professor, and three of our faculty and staff were the highlights of the 2007 Undergraduate Lecture Series in Mathematics at Kansas State University.
This award was established to recognize outstanding individual contributions to the discovery and creation of new knowledge at K-State.
John McCuan is a recognized leader in the mathematics of CMC surfaces. These surfaces are usually found as the border between two different fluid media and in soap films. He is visiting the department for two weeks in April 2008.
Two teams of Kansas State University students received Honorable Mention in the 2008 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
Kansas State University student William Carlson is among 321 students nationally to win a 2008 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
The I-Center Undergraduate Scholars for 2007-2008 are William Carlson, Michael Reppert, and Nicole Wayant.
A team from Kansas State University took the top place in the recent 2008 Kansas Collegiate Mathematics Competition.
Virginia Naibo and Diego Maldonado are preparing a three credit course on Digital Image Processing to be offered during Spring semesters.
John McCuan from the Georgia Institute of Technology will give a short one credit hour course on the Mathematics of Soap in the spring of 2008.
Mark Lesperance will give a three credit Time Series Analysis course in the Fall of 2008.
Professor Mark Gross will deliver a series of lectures on Mirror Symmetry at K-State.
The I-Center Undergraduate Scholars for 2007 are Alyson Deines, Joelyn Foy, and Ashley Wheeler.
This award was established to recognize outstanding individual contributions to the discovery and creation of new knowledge at K-State.
The Kansas State University team finished first in the Big 12 Conference and twenty-ninth overall amongst the 508 participating colleges and universities. This was the fourth time in the last six years that K-State finished first in the Big 12 in the Putnam.
K-State students take top two spots in the 2007 Kansas Collegiate Mathematics Competition.
Marianne Korten is invited to speak at the Spring 2007 Midwest PDE Seminar in Lexington, KY.
Kansas State University student Mike Reppert is among 317 students nationally to win a 2007 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
A team of Kansas State University students was designated Meritorious in the world in the 2007 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
Many videos of math lectures are now available online.
Alyson Deines was the only honorable mention in the A. T. Schafer award for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman at the AMS/MAA/SIAM 2007 Joint mathematics meetings in New Orleans.
David Yetter will offer a course on cryptology in the May 2007 Intersession.
Lectures by eleven math alumni and three of our faculty and staff were the highlights of the 2006 Undergraduate Lecture Series in Mathematics at Kansas State University.
Jeffrey Amos was among the winners (roughly the top 25%) in the undergraduate poster competition at the AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in New Orleans.
Professor David Auckly has been appointed as the Director of the newly inaugurated Center for the Integration of Undergraduate and Graduate Research (I-Center). A major part of the I-Center's mission is to provide directed research experience for our undergraduate majors as soon as possible and in an area of their choice.
Mark Lesperance will offer a course in the spring of 2007 to prepare students for the fourth actuarial exam.
Ashley Wheeler, junior in mathematics and physics, was named a McNair Scholar.
Igor Rodnianski (Ph.D. K-State, 1999) is now a full professor at Princeton University. This August he was given the honor of being one of the few invited speakers at the International Congress of Mathematics.
Brent Smith, Professor of Mathematics, died near the village of Iliamna, Alaska, securing his fishing boat in a storm; his body was discovered August 22, 2006.
This fall Ricardo Castano-Bernard, Diego Maldonado and Virginia Naibo joined our department as new faculty and Ryan Berndt, Ivan Blank, Sean Lawton and Silvia Onofrei joined our department as postdocs.
This year the department granted five Ph.D's, 15 masters degrees and 21 undergraduate degrees.
The math department completed its second summer of a very unique Research Experiences for Undergraduates program in August. This program combines lectures on the mathemathematical theory of flight with flight lessons and research projects in mathematics.
Louis Crane in the Mathematics Department at Kansas State University has received a grant to study foundational questions in physics and cosmology from The Foundational Questions Institute
Amir Bhadori and Aaron Holloway were awarded National Academy for Nuclear Training Scholarships.
A team of Kansas State University students successfully competed in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
Jeffrey Amos and Matthew Burkemper, senior math majors at K-State, ranked high in the Putnam Math Competition.
Alyson Deines, a senior math major, was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship.
K-State teams took the top two places in the Kansas Collegiate Mathematics Competition.
Jeffrey Amos was among the winners in the undergraduate poster competition at the AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Antonio.
Alyson Deines, senior in mathematics at K-State, was awarded an $18,000 Clare Boothe Luce scholarship.
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A team of Kansas State University students placed 8th in the world in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
K-State undergraduates in the Department of Mathematics finished first and second in the Big 12 in the prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition that pits mind versus mind in a battle of numbers.
Michael Higgins, a senior math and statistics major, was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship.
A team of K-State students finished first in the Kansas Collegiate Mathematics Competition which was held during the Kansas Section meeting of the MAA at the University of Kansas.
Kansas State University students placed 8th in the world in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
K-State Students place 17th in the World in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling.