Welcome to Mathematics & Statistics

The Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Maine is dedicated to research and instruction in the Mathematical Sciences.

News and Events

• Graduate Seminar. Tuesday, April 24, 3:10-4pm in Neville 421. Heidi Qiu, UMaine Statistics Master’s student: A New Lifetime Distribution.

• Graduate Seminar. Monday, April 23, 2:10-3pm in Neville 421. Joshua Case, UMaine Mathematics Master’s student: An Introduction to Gray Permutations.

• Senior Capstone Presentations.  Beginning on Monday, April 9, the Department of Mathematics & Statistics will be featuring the Capstone presentations of our senior majors. Everyone is encouraged to attend. The schedule of talks can be found here.

• Master’s Thesis Defense.  Trevor Vadas, UMaine Master’s candidate in Mathematics: Ergodic transformations and measurable sets. Monday, April 16, 2:10pm-3pm in Neville 421.

• Master’s Thesis Defense.  Emily Igo, UMaine Master’s candidate in Mathematics: “On the Algebraic Reformulation of the Partition Function”. Wednesday, April 11, 3:10pm-4pm in Neville 108. Click title for the abstract.

• Pizza Pi / Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture.   Eisso Atzema of the UMaine Department of Mathematics & Statistics, will give a talk entitled Lessons on Train Schedules: From String Charts to Teaching Tools.  Thursday, April 5, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm in Neville 421.  Pizza at 11:30, and talk at 11:50.

• RISE Center Colloquium Talk.  Natasha Speer of the UMaine Department of Mathematics & Statistics will give a colloquium talk in the RISE Center, entitled “Using definitions of mathematical knowledge for teaching: How do these constructs work in research on secondary and college mathematics teachers?”  (Abstract)  Monday, April 2, 2012, 3:00-4:00 PM, Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall.

• In Memoriam: Ali Erhan Özlük, Professor of Mathematics, 1952-2012.
  

  Our dear colleague, Professor Ali Özlük, passed away unexpectedly at his home in Bangor on March 1, 2012. In his 25 year career at the University of Maine, Professor Özlük established a broad research record in analytic number theory, and touched generations of students with his patient and insightful teaching. He was a cheerful and kind person, much loved by his family, friends, students and colleagues. He will be greatly missed. Please visit our memorial page.

• Master’s Thesis Defense.  UMaine Mathematics Master’s Candidate Isaac Michaud will defend his thesis, entitled “Targeted Treatment in a Community Model”, on Thursday, December 1, 9:00-9:50 am, 421 Neville Hall.  The abstract for his talk is here.  Thesis advisor: Prof. Hiebeler.

• Phi Beta Kappa / Mathematics / SCIS seminar.  Arielle Saiber, Associate Professor of Italian, Bowdoin College.  “Niccolo’ Tartaglia’s Poetic Solution to the Cubic Equation,” Thursday, December 1,  3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, 421 Neville Hall.  The abstract for the lecture is here.

Maine Mathematician. Marston Morse, from Waterville, was a pioneer in Differential Topology. He spent most of his career as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, upstairs from Albert Einstein. His tremendously influential life’s work is a body of knowledge known as Morse Theory.  For some insight into his childhood in Maine, see his essay on Mathematics and the Arts.