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Ian Ramsey Receives Prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Research Award

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Ziqing Lu honored with Best Thesis Award for research on building more reliable reinforcement learning models

Monday, September 28, 2026

Mathematics Professor Ionut Chifan Receives Prestigious 2026 Frontiers of Science Award

Tuesday, September 15, 2026
The Department of Mathematics celebrates Professor Ionut Chifan’s 2026 Frontiers of Science Award for award-winning research in functional analysis and operator theory.

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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
CLAS's most popular articles from the summer of 2026 share a theme: people and ideas thrive with the right support. From mathematics outreach to professional hearing care and humanities research funding, these stories show how expertise, mentorship, and community create new possibilities across CLAS and beyond.

CLAS mathematics major develops ways of thinking that extend beyond the classroom

Friday, July 31, 2026
Gabe Postacchini, a mathematics major in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, shared how the Department of Mathematics pushed him to think in new, innovative ways.
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Events

Math Bio Seminar - Professor Jason Graham

Monday, October 26, 2026 3:30pm
Schaeffer Hall

Title: Coordination Without a Nervous System: A Mechanochemical Model of Physarum polycephalum

Abstract: The slime mold Physarum polycephalum is a single giant cell with no nervous system, yet it migrates toward food, builds efficient transport networks, and balances exploration against exploitation. How does such a cell encode, transmit, and integrate information about its environment? We present a proposal in which calcium oscillations, whose strength is tuned locally by the environment, and...

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Operator Theory Seminar - Puja Solaiappan; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa

Tuesday, October 27, 2026 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Operator Theory Seminar
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Mathematical Physics Seminar - Zane Ozzello; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Tuesday, October 27, 2026 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Mathematical Physics Seminar
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PDE Seminar - Ian Ramsey; University of Iowa Department of Mathematics

Wednesday, October 28, 2026 3:30pm
Schaeffer Hall

Title: A priori estimates and absorbing sets for a randomly forced hyperbolic model of the human cortex.

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