Category: mathematical sciences

UTD’s School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics is in the process of expanding its course offerings in bioinformatics and structural biology toward computational systems biology. This new and exciting, highly interdisciplinary field draws from: While systems biology is still a young field, it is increasingly and forcefully moving toward the mainstream of biomedical sciences and […]

Dr. Yvette E. Pearson, a globally-recognized leader in STEM education and research, is now an associate dean in the University’s School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) and Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science (Jonsson School). For NSM Pearson is associate dean for academic affairs and strategic initiatives and for the Jonsson School she is associate dean […]

by Carly Orewiler Data science senior Amogh Channashetti is what some would call an internship guru. With notable companies such as Hilton, Vanguard, and Milliman on his resume, he is gearing up for his fourth internship at Capital One this summer. Beyond his academic achievements as a National Merit Scholar in the Collegium V Honors […]

Dr. Vladimir Dragovic, professor and head of mathematical sciences in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, is an expert in mathematical billiards. It’s a field that has applications in physics and engineering, but Dragovic is drawn to the beauty of theory. Continue reading at UTD Magazine.

Despite having a lower incidence of breast cancer, Black women in the United States face a troubling reality. According to a recent report by the American Cancer Society, the death rate among Black women is still 40% higher than white women. Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) are taking significant strides to […]

by Carly Orewiler The UT Dallas Putnam Club secured its rank as No. 32 among 456 university teams after competing in the 83rd annual Putnam Competition. The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, administered by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), is a top-tier mathematics contest for undergraduate students in the U.S. and Canada. It began […]

The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics places great importance on the work of talented and committed teachers. Each year, students are asked to nominate faculty and teaching assistants worthy of recognition for the extraordinary efforts they make to provide our students a top-quality education. The school normally makes up to five awards in the […]

With the generous support of the UT Dallas Center for Disease Dynamics and Statistics, which was organized by the Department of Mathematical Sciences immediately following the outbreak of the pandemic under the auspices of the Office of the Vice President of Research, students in Dr. Qiwei Li’s class developed several real-time web apps to forecast […]

Computational mathematician Georgia Stuart BS’12, MATs’14, PhD’20 is one of the rare scholars who received all her degrees – bachelor’s, two master’s and a doctorate – from UT Dallas. According to the Office of Statistics, Planning and Analysis, only 10 students in the university’s history have graduated with the same order and number of degrees from […]

Subas Acharya, PhD’22, who worked under the co-supervision of Professor Dmitriy Rachinskiy (Department of Mathematical Sciences) and Professor Alain Bensoussan (ICDRiA, JSOM), submitted his dissertation on applying stochastic processes to finance. His work was advised and supported by Dr. Alejandro Rivera (JSOM). The research applies techniques on problems of mathematical finance and economics, such as stochastic optimal control […]

The Department of Mathematical Sciences welcomed additions to its faculty. Liang Hong, PhD, associate professor of mathematical sciences, received his BA in economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and PhD in mathematics from Purdue University. His research has spanned a wide spectrum of topics, including actuarial science, data science and statistics, machine learning, […]

The late Professor Emeritus Ivor Robinson was founding head of the Division of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics at The University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Robinson was among the first members recruited in 1963 to the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest (GRCSW), the private research organization that in 1969 became The University of Texas […]

By Dr. Paul Stanford David joined our department shortly before I did, so we have known each other for a considerable period. He sported a magnificent handlebar mustache at the time, one which settled down over the years.  He was cheerful and supportive, worked patiently with his students, and was always professional in his duties […]

Dr. Susan Minkoff, a professor of mathematical sciences at UT Dallas, is enjoying serving her second term as secretary of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), a post she’ll keep till the end of 2023.  SIAM, with roughly 15,000 members, is an international professional society that serves as the main applied mathematics professional […]

The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics places great importance on the work of talented and committed teachers. Each year, students are asked to nominate faculty and teaching assistants worthy of recognition for the extraordinary efforts they make to provide our students a top-quality education. The school normally makes up to five awards in the […]

Sir Roger Penrose, the British scholar who won half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity,” gave a transatlantic talk over Zoom on Sept. 2, 2021, titled, “Spinors, Space-Time, and Working with Wolfgang Rindler.”  The Nobel laureate and the late UT Dallas physics […]

The Green Fellows program, offered jointly by The University of Texas at Dallas and the UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, provides a semester-long, fully paid undergraduate research fellowship. The program is most appropriate for those students interested in PhD or MD/PhD pathways after graduation from UT Dallas. This week, from 2-4 pm Thursday, May […]

Following a national search, Dr. David Hyndman has been hired and takes the helm as dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics effective Feb. 1.  Dr. Hyndman’s research and service are known internationally. His group’s research on hydrogeology evaluates human impacts on the water cycle through changes in climate and land use. Dr. […]