Mathematics & Statistics

Two of our Mathematics MA students will be presenting their work at the UMaine Grad Expo on Thursday, April 2, 2015 in the IMRC. Jennifer Fatula will be presenting her poster Knot Theory and DNA on Thursday from 1-4pm.  (Abstract.) Douglas Weathers will be giving a talk entitled Decompositions of the Kuchment-Lvin Identities Thursday at 3:20pm […]

Annual Mathematics Competition 2014 All students of Calculus I and II (MAT 126-127) were invited to participate in this year’s Mathematics Contest.  The test consisted of three challenging calculus problems, to be solved over one weekend. 60 students participated.  The results are in, and the following cash awards were given: Calculus I First Prize: No winner […]

Annual Mathematics Competition 2013-2014 All students of Calculus I and II (MAT 126-127) were invited to participate in this year’s Mathematics Contest.  The test consisted of three challenging calculus problems, to be solved over one weekend. The results are in, and the following cash awards were given: Calculus I (19 participants) First Prize winner, $150: […]

The University of Maine Department of Mathematics & Statistics will host the Maine-Québec Number Theory Conference on October 5-6, 2013.  Approximately 60 number theorists from New England, Québec, and beyond will gather at the annual meeting to present and discuss their research.  Among the 38 scheduled lectures is a plenary address by Barry Mazur, a […]

It’s that time of year again- when the senior Mathematics majors give talks on their Capstone papers. Come hear what they have been working on. The schedule of lectures and list of topics are here.

All students of Calculus I and II (MAT 126-127) were invited to participate in this year’s Mathematics Contest.  The test consisted of three challenging calculus problems, to be solved over one weekend, and turned in on November 14th, 2012. The results are in, and the following cash awards were given: Calculus I (26 participants) First Prize […]

The department of Mathematics and Statistics ran a contest in 2011 for Calculus students.   There were 37 contestants, 25 enrolled into Calculus I and 12 into Calculus II.  Students of Calculus I and II were given different sets of problems and were not competing with each other. Place Name Class Prize First Nathan Dunn […]

Stuart Lathrop has been awarded a CLAS Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowship for this year. Mr. Lathrop, who is a senior math major, won the $1400 fellowship for his proposal entitled Contributions to the Foundations of the Theory of Transcendental Numbers. He is writing an extensive survey on the theorem of Gelfand and Schneider asserting […]

The annual Québec/Maine Number Theory Conference took place on the weekend of September 29-30. The conference was co-organized by number theorists at the Unversity of Maine and at Laval University in Québec City.  This year, the conference was dedicated to the memory of UMaine mathematician Ali Ozluk, who passed away last year.  Prof. Peter Sarnak, […]

Pi Mu Epsilon / Pizza Pi talk Thursday, April 5, 2012, 11:30am-12:30pm. Neville 421 Pizza at 11:30 am, Talk 11:50-12:30. Dr. Eisso Atzema, University of Maine Math Department Lessons on Train Schedules: From String Charts to Teaching Tools. The early 20th-century was a time of major reforms in the teaching of mathematics all across the […]