August 31st, 2021
The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the recipient of the
2022 Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory will be Jennifer Balakrishnan, Clare
Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Mathematics at Boston University. Blakrishnan is
honored for outstanding contributions to explicit methods in number theory, particularly
for her advances in computing rational points on algebraic curves over number fields.
Established in... Read more »
May 11th, 2021
By Isaac Schorr
The landscape of education has changed drastically in the past year. Students have shown a remarkable amount of resilience in the face of uncertainty. While times have changed, the tenacity of Boston University’s graduate students has not.
As the year closed out and Finals approached for undergraduates, graduate students continue to work and research. For some, though, their journey... Read more »
September 8th, 2020
The Tutoring Room has moved online for Fall 2020. Further information, including the schedule and Zoom link, can be found through the following pathway:
Undergraduate Tab ---> Resources for Current Students ---> Tutoring Room Schedule, or by clicking this link.
Please email mathdept@math.bu.edu with any questions or concerns.
June 12th, 2020
Department of Mathematics and Statistics participates in ShutDownSTEM
April 28th, 2020
We are pleased to announce that our colleague Yves Atchade has been
named an IMS Fellow by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Congratulations Yves!
April 14th, 2020
Professor Jennifer Balakrishnan has been honored with an NSF CAREER Award.
This award is a well-deserved recognition of her many contributions to computational
number theory and arithmetic geometry, including her pioneering work on bounding the number of rational points on curves using p-adic methods.
Congratulations, Jen!
February 27th, 2020
Congratulations to Professor Kostas Spiliopoulos for being named a 2020 Simons Fellow!
The Simons Fellowship will enable Kostas to extend his sabbatical next year.
The full article can be found here.
February 24th, 2020
Two Boston University students' unique experiences with mathematics led them to Colorado.
By Isaac Schorr
In a library in Everett, MA, a fourteen-year-old Alex Rodriguez was completing his math homework when an older man walked up and asked “Hey, can I see your work real quick?”.
Alex let the stranger look at the page he was working on. The stranger examined the page... Read more »
January 31st, 2020
Boston University is taking large steps forward in the field of data science. Eric Kolaczyk is helping to lead the way.
By Isaac Schorr
With the groundbreaking of the new nineteen-story Data Sciences Center at 665 Commonwealth Avenue on December 5th, 2019, Boston University made its largest step forward into the data science industry. The building, which will house the Mathematics and Statistics... Read more »
January 15th, 2020
Eric Kolaczyk has been named Director of the Hariri Institute of Computing and Computational Science & Engineering by Provost Jean Morrison.
Congratulations Eric!