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 »

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 »

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.    

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We are pleased to announce that our colleague Yves Atchade has been named an IMS Fellow by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Congratulations Yves!

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!

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.

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 »

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 »

Eric Kolaczyk has been named Director of the Hariri Institute of Computing and Computational Science & Engineering by Provost Jean Morrison. Congratulations Eric!