Chidinma Ezugwu, one of our [Mathematics & Statistics Department] PhD students, and two PhD students from Education Research Methodology (ERM) recently formed a team, “Campus AI Solutions”, to compete in the UNCG AI Innovation Challenge. Their advisor was Dr. Malistitso Moteane from ERM. This prestigious competition, hosted by the Office… Continue reading…
Dr. Tom Lewis, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, has received a new three-year grant from the American Mathematical Society for his project, Narrow-Stencil High-Order Numerical Methods for Approximating Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs. The funding will support travel and supplies to enhance Dr. Lewis’s research, to support his mentoring of graduate students, and to develop undergraduate research opportunities.
congratulations to the 2025 Mathematics & Statistics graduates!
Congratulations to the 2025 Pi Mu Epsilon Inductees! On Tuesday, May 6, 2025, the Mathematics and Statistics Department hosted a dinner at the Imperial Koi restaurant to honor new members of Pi Mu Epsilon, the National Mathematics Honorary Society. The 2025 new inductees are: Caleb Koment, Kaitlyn Pelikan, Mindy Vasquez,… Continue reading…
The UNCG Mathematics and Statistics Department can boast that it is home to internationally acclaimed professors, two of which were recently featured in the College of Arts and Science’s news article, Travel Recollections. The article, highlighted in the Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 email edition of UNCG Campus Weekly, gives us… Continue reading…
Despite their busy schedules, our students often manage to find time in between their classes and research to do something fun. And sometimes that fun means actual rocket science. In 2024, Chidinma Ezugwu, one of our PhD students in Computational Mathematics, began volunteering with NC A&T’s Aggie Rocketry Team, which… Continue reading…
Joins us for “An introduction to the role of the Gromov-Hausdorff distance in computational topology” with Nicolò Zava. Nicolò Zava is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in Herbert Edelsbrunner’s research group. His research focuses on metric geometry, with strong motivations from applications in… Continue reading…
The UNCG Doctoral Hooding Ceremony took place on Thursday, December 12th for 2024 Summer and Fall PhD graduates. Congratulations to the Department of Mathematics & Statistics PhD graduates! Satyajith Bommana Boyana B.T., Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad Computational Mathematics Dissertation: Novel Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Optimization Problems with Inequality Constraints Yi… Continue reading…
Chidinma Ezugwu, UNCG Ph.D. Student in Computational Mathematics, has not only been awarded with a 2024 Tutor Spotlight Award by Guilford County Schools in partnership with UNCG’s School of Education in the Institute for Partnerships in Education (IPiE), but has also been featured in the 2024 issue of the UNCG… Continue reading…
