• Archana Receives the Donna B. Hamilton Award

    Archana Khurana has been selected to receive the Donna B. Hamilton Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in a General Education Course.  Awards are based solely on student nominations and are solicited from across campus.  From the many nominations received, the selection committee was very impressed by the student experience… Read More

  • Yanir Receives a Do Good Campus Fund Grant

    Yanir’s proposal on “Incorporating outreach into the curriculum via experiential learning” is one of the only 27 projects out of 140 submissions that were funded by the UMD Do Good Campus Fund. Read More

  • Congrats to 3 CMNS Students Named Goldwater Scholars

    Congratulations to UMD’s 3 Goldwater Scholars this year, all from CMNS: Junior physics and mathematics double-degree student Yash Anand Sophomore atmospheric and oceanic science and physics double-degree student Malcolm Maas Junior biological sciences and mathematics double-degree student Jerry Shen Over the last 15 years, UMD’s nominations yielded 49 scholarships—No. 2… Read More

  • Maria Cameron Receives the 2024 MURI Award

    Congratulations to Maria Cameron for her MURI award. MURI are multidisciplinary university research initiative grants that are awarded by the department of defense. Cameron’s grant is sponsored by the office of naval research. Her team includes Balakumar Balachandran (ME) and Miao Yu (ME). This is a project on “disorder-influenced collective… Read More

  • A $27.2M Gift to the Math Department by the Brin Family

    The university announced today a big gift to the Math Department. The very generous gift of $27.2M was made by Michael & Eugenia Brin. The gift will endow the Brin Mathematics Research Center, establish an endowed chair, and launch a summer camp for high school students. The official university’s press… Read More
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Here is a collection of our past Green Office newsletters

2023

2022

Congratualtions to Abba Gumel for winning the 2023 Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS).

The award was presented to Abba in recognition of his outstanding service to CAIMS as Secretary, Director, and Chair of Membership, Publications and Doctoral Dissertation Awards Committee, as two-time organizer of the annual meeting, organizer of summer schools and workshops, for initiating and contributing to the creation of the Annual Meeting Handbook, and "for being an exemplary ambassador for Canadian Applied Mathematics through multiple international recognitions and leadership in international development projects."

More information about the award can be found at https://caims.ca/award/arthur-beaumont-distinguished-service-award/

The Department of Mathematics – faculty, staff, and students – is committed to fostering an atmosphere of respect, collegiality, and sensitivity. As a community, we respect the dignity, individuality, and freedom of each member. At the same time, we strive to be a place where individuals and groups learn with and from each other.

The charge of the Department of Mathematics Climate Committee is to:

  • Assure that the Department of Mathematics provides a welcoming and supportive environment for all members – undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, lecturers, faculty, and staff.
  • Provide a safe space to all members of our community to voice their concerns.
  • Foster change to improve all aspects of the department that affect the wellbeing of our members.
  • Initiate, coordinate, and promote activities to improve diversity and inclusion
  • Annually update the “Mathematics Department Atmosphere and Inclusion Statement.”

Outreach Activities

 Members of the Committee:

Larry Washington
Larry Washington
Undergraduate Chair		 Leonid Koralov 
Leonid Koralov
Graduate Chair		 KendallWilliamsKendall Profile 
Kendall Williams
Lecturer		 Rosca Raluca
Raluca Rosca
Lecturer
Ida Chan
Ida Chan
Staff 		 Amandeep
 Amandeep Chanda
Graduate Student Council Rep		 Maeve
Maeve Wildes
AWM Graduate Student Rep 		 Ezra Aylaian 
Ezra Aylaian
Undergraduate Student Rep
 

 

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Congratulations to Abba Gumel for being named a 2022 AAAS Fellow.  Abba is joining 6 other UMD faculty in this honor (4 from CMNS).

The dean’s office prepared an announcement which can be read following this link: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/aaas-fellows-2022

  1. Partha Lahiri receives the 'Neyman Medal' in the 3rd congress of Polish Statistics
  2. Problem of the Week
  3. Shuo Yang recieves the Babuška Award
  4. Distinguished Lecture Series

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