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Congratulations to April and Jennifer!

Congratulations, Karen! Thank you very much for your generous support to the UTK Mathematics Department with the Karen L. Sisk Scholarship Endowment!

Long-distance running requires planning, from pacing to stoking the body’s engines. Nick Morgan, Author provided Cameron Cook, University of Tennessee Whether standing at the starting line for a high school cross-country competition or, years later, at the cold rainy 2018 […]

JuMP will introduce you to the fundamentals of building mathematical models and coding in Python to study these models and confront them with data, all while working collaboratively to answer questions of importance to our health and the well-being of […]

Anne M. Ho, a senior lecturer in the UT Department of Mathematics, received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her proposal, “Transitioning Secondary to Tertiary Educators’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching.” She will study math educators in high […]

Olivia Prosper, assistant professor of mathematics, received a highly-competitive Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This multi-year, $470,000 grant will support Prosper’s work in mathematical modeling of infectious diseases. Emerging infectious diseases are an […]

Fractals and Polytopes Promoting community appreciation for the beauty of mathematics, on December 13, 2018, a team of university faculty, high school faculty, university students, and high school students worked together to create beautiful, and meaningful, 3-dimensional mathematical models. Tabatha […]

The Kosciuszko Foundation selected Jan Rosinski, professor in the Department of Mathematics, as an Eminent Scientist of Polish Origin and Ancestry in 2018. Fewer than 400 scientists, 21 of whom are mathematicians, have received this prestigious honor. “Naturally, I was […]

Professors David Anderson, Robert Daverman, Suzanne Lenhart, and Stefan Richter have been honored as members of the inaugural class of AMS Fellows, along with former Department Head and continuing department friend Lida Barrett.

Vasilis Maroulas has been awarded the Leverhulme Trust Fellowship to visit the University of Bath in Great Britain. Vasilis prevailed in a university-wide competition at Bath for one of only two Fellowship awards. He will visit the Mathematics Department at […]

Professor Suzanne Lenhart was named a 2010 SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Fellow. There were 34 SIAM Fellows appointed this year. The fellowship honors SIAM members who have made outstanding contributions to applied mathematics and computational science . […]

Suzanne Lenhart has been appointed as a UT Chancellor’s Professor. Her appointment begins August 1, 2011, and continues through the lifetime of her employment at UT. Seven Chancellor’s Professors were appointed in the initial class a few years ago, and […]

Ken Stephenson was elected this year as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Ken was one of only 8 mathematicians elected nationally this year. Ken’s letter from the AAAS stated: “Each year the AAAS […]

On November 6, 2010, Stefan Richter delivered an invited plenary address at the Fall Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Richmond, Virginia. The title of his lecture was “Boundary behavior and invariant subspaces in spaces of analytic functions.” […]

Suzanne Lenhart was awarded the Sonia Kovalevsky Prize and delivered the Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the 2010 annual SIAM meeting in July in Pittsburg. Dr. Lenhart is the 8th individual ever to give the Kovalevsky Lecture. The title of her […]

Professor Suzanne Lenhart was the winner of the UT Notable Woman Award, given at the Chancellor’s Honors Banquet last night. The UT Notable Woman Award is a highly competitive award, presented to one woman each year, on a three year […]

I am pleased to announce that Professor Suzanne Lenhart was elected as a member of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) this year. The AAAS is the world’s largest scientific society. To quote from Suzannes’s notification letter, […]

Bob Daverman was elected as a Fellow of the AAAS (the American Association for the Advancement of Science), which is the world’s largest general scientific society. To quote from Bob’s award letter, “Each year the Council elects members whose ‘efforts […]

Michael Neilan was awarded an National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to start in Fall 2009. Michael is the first mathematics graduate student from UT to win an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship. Michael’s advisor is Professor Xiaobing Feng. The 2010 NSF Postdoctoral […]

Mathematicians and biologists from around the world will converge on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to take part in a new institute dedicated to finding creative solutions to pressing problems from animal disease to wildfire control. The National Science Foundation […]

Xia Chen, Professor of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). An induction ceremony for all 2008 Fellows took place July 14, 2008 at the IMS Annual Meeting/World Congress in Singapore. Professor […]

Lida K. Barrett’s solid mathematical background and her ability to get at the heart of problems and to find bold solutions led her into positions in mathematical policy: as a senior administrator at several universities, as President of the Mathematical […]

Guggenheim Fellowships are extremely prestigious. Sergey is a Distinguished Professor at UT, with an appointment shared between Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) and Mathematics. His home page can be found here: http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~gavrila/. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (see http://www.gf.org/index.html) […]

Donald Dessart, retired professor and former Macebearer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, was inducted Wednesday into the Educators Hall of Honor. The Educators Hall of Honor in the UT College of Education, Health and Human Sciences recognizes professionals in […]

US Patent # 7,311,680 was awarded to Suzanne Lenhart (UT), Vladimir Protopopescu (ORNL and UT), and Eunok Jung (Korea) on Dec. 25, 2007. The title of their patent is: “Optimal Control of CPR Procedure Using Hemodynamic Circulation Model.” Patent Abstract: […]