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The Department of Mathematics is pleased to congratulate alum Sherry Chan on her recent election as the President-Elect and Vice Chair of the Society of Actuaries. She will become the organization…
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to congratulate Luči Krnić, PhD candidate in mathematics, on being named a Graduate Fellow by The Ohio State University's Translational Data Analytics…
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to congratulate students Julius Tabery, Ali Farsad, and Steve Manns for their excellent projects they…
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to congratulate Matt Kahle, Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics, and department alumnus Christopher Donnay…
The Society of Actuaries (SOA) has approved Ohio State University's Actuarial Science program as a University Earned Credit (UEC) institution. This designation recognizes universities with high…
The Gisele & Neil Robertson Mathematics Award was established through the generous support of Dr. George Neil Robertson and Gisele M. Robertson to recognize outstanding doctoral…
Congratulations to Professor and Vice Chair Yulong Xing on being awarded the 2026 Graduate Faculty Mentor Award! The award is the Ohio State Graduate School’s recognition of the exceptional…
The Mathematics Department is proud to announce the launch of a new endowed lecture series, made possible by a generous gift from Joseph Rosenblatt and Gay Miller. The
Congratulations to Mehmet Basaran for winning the 2025-26 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The GATA is the highest recognition by the…
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to highlight Carolyn Johns, assistant director of the Math and Statistics Learning Center (MSLC), in this Student Success Champion feature…
2/27/2026 Arlington, VA – The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) has announced that The Ohio State University has qualified for Gold Tier within the CAS University Recognition Program. This program…
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to recognize former Ohio State faculty member Facundo Mémoli and Ohio State mathematics alumnus Mario Gómez Flores for…
Joel Moreira, Florian Richter and Donald Robertson --- three former graduate students –- received Frontiers of Science Awards in Mathematics. Joel Moreira had the honor to receive the award and…
The Society of Actuaries (SOA) has awarded Ohio State University’s Actuarial Science program the prestigious designation of a Center of Actuarial Excellence (CAE). This…
The Polish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2024 Stefan Banach Medal to Professor Vitaly Bergelson for his outstanding contributions to ergodic theory, Ramsey theory, and combinatorial number…
Congratulations to James Marshall Reber, who has been awarded a 2025 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation. This NSF Fellowship is one of the…
The Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IM PAN) will host the "Perspectives on Ergodic Theory and its Interactions" conference from June 23 to 27, 2025, in Warsaw, Poland…
Congratulations to Kacey Aurum for winning the 2024-25 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The GATA is the highest recognition by the…
In December 2024, Ovidiu Costin, Rodica Costin, Crichton Ogle, and 3 other collaborators were awarded a 3rd…
Mathematics Chair, Dongbin Xiu, has been named in the prestigious 2024 Stanford/Elsevier List of Top 2% Scientists. Dr. Xiu ranked No. 31 out of…
Juan Pablo De Rasis has been awarded the Presidential Fellowship by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to…
Professor Hsian-Hua Tseng has been selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2025.
The AMS Fellows program recognizes mathematicians who "have made outstanding…
Welcome and congratulations to new Assistant Professor Yifan Jing who was recently awarded the 2023 Kirkman Medal of thethe Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA) for his excellent…
Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Park for winning the Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award.
The Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes outstanding performance in all three…
Congratulations to Katherine Goldman, a recent PhD graduate from our program, who has been awarded a 2024 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MSPRF) by the…
Congratulations to the OSU Cycle Mentoring Program who won the Graduate Student Award for Diversity Enhancement. Cycle is a community of undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of…
Congratulations to Professor Michael Lipnowski who has been awarded an NSF-CAREER grant for his proposal "CAREER: Topology, Spectral Geometry, and Arithmetic of Locally Symmetric Spaces." The goal…
Congratulations to Caroline Tatsuoka who has won the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award.
The SCGSR award is provided by the SCGSR…
PI Associate Professor of Teaching-Practice Bart Snapp along with collaborators Jim Fowler and A. Borland, P. Fatheddin, B. Findell, C. Johns, E. Miller, J. Miller, B. Ramsey, J. Sheldon, J…
OSU mathematics faculty, led by Dongbin Xiu and Maria Han Viega, are a part of a winning team (along with Stanford, Caltech, and UC San Diego) for the Mathematics of Digital Twins award by the…
Michel Talagrand, former Ohio State University Professor, has been awarded the prestigious Abel Prize for his work in probability theory and stochastic processes. This award will be presented in…
Professor Christian Schnell, an alumnus of our PhD program, has been selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2024.
The AMS Fellows program recognizes…
Professor Jean Lafont has been selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2024.
The AMS Fellows program recognizes mathematicians who "have made outstanding…
Stefan Patrikis, David Anderson, Angelica Cueto, and Jennifer Park have been awarded a 5-year, $2.1 million Research Training Group grant from the National Science Foundation in the areas of …
Join the department in congratulating David Penneys and collaborators who have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) in quantum information science and…
Congratulations to Eric Katz who have been awarded the Frontiers of Science Award for his paper "Hodge theory for combinatorial geometries" joint with Karim Adiprasito (Hebrew University) and June…
Dongbin Xiu, a professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in the Department of Mathematics, has been appointed interim chair of the department for a one-year term. His research interests…
Dr. Benjamin Call, a recent PhD graduate from our program, won a 2023 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation. Only 46 of these…
Congratulations to Lijuan Bi for receiving The Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching award in the university for lecturers and…
Congratulations to Jenny Sheldon for receiving The Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching award in the university for lecturers and…
Congratulations to Dongbin Xiu who has been selected to the 2023 Class of SIAM Fellows. He is being recognized for pioneering fundamental contributions to the mathematics and applications of…
Congratulations to Professor Caroline Terry who was awarded an NSF-CAREER grant for her proposal "CAREER: Model theoretic classification theory, Fourier analysis, and hypergraph regularity"! As a…
Congratulations to Kacey Aurum who has won the 2022-23 Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Service by the College of Arts and Sciences.
This year there were 60 nominations through a…
Ranthony Edmonds and her research team host workshops for K-12 Columbus students to encourage interest in mathematics via hands on problem solving and informative history about Black…
Congratulations to Kriti Sehgal and Ivo Terek for winning the 2022-23 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The GATA is the highest…
Congratulations to Caroline Terry, winner of the highly prestigious 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship. She is one of 125 early-career scholars who represent the most…
Mathew George has been awarded the Presidential Fellowship by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to…
The Ohio State University was named one of six universities to receive a Phase 2 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's "Driving Change" (HHMI-DC) initiative. This…
Congratulations to Jingyin Huang, who received the 2021 Kamil Duszenko Award. The award is organized by the Wroclaw Mathematicians Foundation (Poland), and recognizes
Avner Friedman, Distinguished University Professor in the Mathematical Biosciences Institute & Department of Mathematics, co-authored a new article on a novel spatial model for myocardial…
The Fields Medal is regarded as one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics, awarded by the International Mathematics Union every four years to at most four mathematicians under the age of…
Our associate director of outreach, Monica Delgado, was selected by the Office of Outreach and Engagement as a recipient of a Spring 2022 Grant. Monica received a grant in the category of…
James Talamo:
Dr. James (Jim) Talamo has won the 2021-2022 Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer.
From the award website: "The Provost’s Award for…
Aziz Burak Gülen has won the 2021-22 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) by the Ohio State Graduate School.
GATA is the highest recognition by the university for exceptional…
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced that Jingyin Huang has been awarded a 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship. The Sloan Fellowship is a highly prestigious annual award to US and Canadian early…
The OSU math department at Marion just concluded the latest Marion Math Challenge after a 2-year interruption due to pandemic lockdowns. This decade-old competition for local high school students…
The outreach group in the department, Buckeye Aha! Math Moments (BAMM), is piloting a Recreational Mathematics and Outreach course, Math 2194, in spring 2022. The instructors for the course are…
Bhawesh Mishra has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious academic recognition awarded by the Graduate…
Congratulations!
Congratulations to our graduate students on their many achievements during the past academic year! The linked pages below recognize the degrees earned and…
Postdoc scholar Ranthony Edmonds has been awarded a three-year Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend). Dr. Edmonds will investigate applications…
Department of Mathematics alumnus, Matthew Amodio, continues his spectacular performance on the game show "Jeopardy." Matt now ranks 5th in highest winnings in regular-season play in the well…
Matthew Stenzel has been awarded the Robert A. Barnes Award for Exemplary Teaching 2021. This teaching excellence award is presented annually to one tenured faculty member at Ohio State Newark who…
Benjamin Call has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Ohio State Graduate School.
The Presidential Fellowship recognizes truly outstanding scholarship among doctoral students and…