The Department of Mathematics welcomed three tenure-line faculty, eight professional teaching faculty, and four postdoctoral associates. Learn more about the faculty on the department’s website. Tenure-Track Faculty Hung Nguyen Assistant Professor, Probability My interest in research lies mainly in the field of probability and stochastic differential equations (SDEs). I am currently working on Lyapunov constructions…

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Joshua Siktar pursued his interests in both mathematical analysis and computational mathematics while earning his PhD at UT, completing the degree this year.  Siktar entered the program in the fall of 2019 and worked with two advisors, Professors Tadele Mengesha and Abner Salgado.  He wrote his doctoral thesis on some aspects of the mathematical and…

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Dear friends of the UT Department of Mathematics, As the 2023-2024 academic year has wound down, let us reflect on a remarkable year and look ahead to the future. Riding on the momentum of 2022-2023, our department continued to rise along with the university’s rise. We had another phenomenal year of growth. We hired one…

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The Department of Mathematics has seen remarkable growth alongside the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, teaching a record number of students in the 2023-2024 academic year and building on phenomenal growth the year before.  With 37 tenure-line faculty, 38 full-time lecturers, more than 100 graduate students, and 10 full-time staff members, the department is the largest…

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The Math Place, located in Hodges Library North Commons, provides students with a great atmosphere where they can work on all aspects of their math classes.  The staff of undergraduate peer learning assistants bring a positive attitude and strong knowledge base that fosters student learning and confidence.  While being surrounded by peers who are taking…

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The UT mathematics graduate program awarded 28 Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) to new students in fall 2022, bringing the total number of GTAs in the program to 88. Grants and fellowships supported an additional nine students. Including our self-supported students, we currently have over 100 graduate students in our program.  Going forward, the department aims to…

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During the past couple years, we’ve been working to enhance the experience for our math majors and minors by promoting career development, research opportunities, and community. To provide space for more career conversations, we created a new 1-credit course to explore opportunities and resources for a math major at UT as well as career directions.…

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One year ago, the mathematics department at UT was in the process of searching for a new department head. It was a great honor for me to be given the opportunity to serve the department in the headship role after being at UT for almost thirty years. Now, after almost eight months since becoming the…

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Ye He is a senior mathematics student in the math honors concentration. After consulting with her professors in her sophomore year, Ye switched to the mathematics major from her previous major in electrical engineering. This allowed her to pursue high-level mathematics classes such as topology and abstract algebra.  “In these higher-level math courses, I was…

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