In addition to the many departmental awards and scholarships presented at 2024 Honors Day, below are awards and honors received by the faculty, staff, and graduate students from other organizations. Chancellor’s Professor Suzanne Lenhart delivered the prestigious J. W. Gibbs Lecture at the Joint Math Meetings in San Francisco on January 6, 2024.  Associate Professor…

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Math major Kevin Farmer graduated in May with a concentration in applied math. He is a veteran and a first-generation college student who is pursuing a career as an actuary.  Farmer completed an actuarial internship while a student at UT and successfully passed the first two actuarial exams, which cover material in probability and financial…

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Ryan Unger came to UT as an engineering student and started doing undergraduate research on experimental materials science in nuclear engineering. In his freshman year, he treated mathematics as a hobby and did not think it was a viable career option. The more mathematics courses he took, however, the more he liked mathematics. Taking several…

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Owen Queen graduated from UT in May 2020 with a double major in computer science and mathematics. His undergraduate research spanned artificial intelligence and data science in genomics, materials science, and epidemiology.  As a junior, Queen earned the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship which is regarded as the most prestigious undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and…

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With a master’s degree in mathematics and a PhD in mathematics education, JENEVA CLARK has unique perspectives on teaching mathematics. Her research and connections are forging new opportunities for faculty and students at UT.  Clark joined the Department of Mathematics faculty in 2006 and has taught and coordinated Mathematical Reasoning courses for many years. She…

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Suzanne Lenhart’s achievements in applied mathematics were highlighted this year with her invitation from the American Mathematical Society (AMS) to deliver the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture.  Her speech to an international audience on January 4 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco—the largest math conference in the world—focused on the impact of math in…

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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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