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The Department of Mathematics
at the University of Washington is one of the major
research mathematics departments in the United States. It has an excellent
research reputation, a strong, demanding program of graduate study in
mathematics, and a full range of excellent undergraduate course offerings.
The department has approximately 60 faculty with research
interests in virtually every area of mathematics, from algebra
to string theory. The department has about 90 full-time students in the
graduate
program and over 500 undergraduate majors, including 350 in the
Mathematics undergraduate program and 150 in the
joint
ACMS program.
Recent Department News
Finding solutions to thousand year old problem
November 2009: Graduate student Robert Bradshaw is part of an international group of mathematicians
who have resolved the first one trillion cases of a thousand year old mathematics problem: Which whole numbers can be the area of a
right-angled triangle whose sides are whole numbers or fractions? See the Unversity
Week article and American Institute of Mathematics press release for further details.
Ralph Greenberg and Tatiana Toro invited speakers at ICM 2010
October 2009: UW Math faculty members Ralph Greenberg and Tatiana Toro have been invited to
speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians to be held in Hyderabad in August 2010. A full list of the invited
plenary and sectional speakers is available here.
Ioana Dumitriu awarded NSF CAREER grant
June 2009: Ioana Dumitriu has received
a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF awards these prestigious grants to "junior faculty who
exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and
research within the context of the mission of their organizations."
2009 Math Department Undergraduate Awards
June 2009: Outstanding undergraduate Mathematics and ACMS majors were honored
with awards given at the annual Honors Luncheon on May 28th. In addition to an
award stipend, each student was given a book reflecting their mathematical interests. A full list of this
year's awardees and their accompanying books may be found here.
Department receives Research Training Grant from NSF
May 2009: The Department has been awarded a Research Training Grant in
Partial Differential Equations/Inverse Problems by the National Science Foundation. The award will, in
particular, support the training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Gunther Uhlmann, Robin
Graham, Jim Morrow, Hart Smith and Tatiana Toro are the Principal Investigators of the RTG.
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