Welcome

Welcome to the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Mathematics. We offer exceptional opportunities for study and research in Mathematics at the undergraduate level, graduate level with programs in mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics, and at the professional research level. Join us in exploring these opportunities.

News

• Please join us at a reception in honor of a special person, Patrick M. Fitzpatrick, in recognition of his past and continuing service to the Department of Mathematics. The reception is to take place on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, at 3:00 in the Math Building Rotunda. Please mark your calendars to attend.
• See the Upcoming Events section (on the right of this page) for information about conferences in the Department this year.
• Professor Richard Wentworth, formerly Chair of the Mathematics Department at Johns Hopkins, is joining the department as a tenured Professor starting Fall 2008. Sandra Cerrai, formerly at the University of Florence in Italy, is joining the department starting Fall 2008 as a tenured Associate Professor. In addition, Antoine Mellet, hired a year ago from the University of British Columbia, is joining the department as an Assistant Professor. And Karin Melnick, currently at Yale University, will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor in fall of 2009.
• For more about some of the new faculty and staff members in the department, see here.
• Dr. Leonid Koralov has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure, effective summer 2008. Congratulations!
• Professor Chris Laskowski has taken over the jobs of Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Director of the Mathematics Graduate Program, effective July 2008.
• Distinguished University Professor Mark Freidlin gave the Seventy-Sixth Kuwait Foundation Lecture at Cambridge University on April 29, 2008.
• Professor Jonathan Rosenberg has been appointed to the Ruth M. Davis Professorship for 2008-2009.
• Associate Professor Doron Levy's research has been attracting attention in the news media, such as Science News and the UM Newsdesk.
• The first Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems was awarded to Giovanni Forni at the Brin Prize session of the Spring 2008 Brinfest. For photos from that first Brin Prize session, click here.
• Professors Jeffery Cooper and John Osborn retired at the end of the 2007-2008 academic year. A one-day conference on April 4, 2008 celebrated their many accomplishments. We wish them well in their future endeavors.