Department of Mathematics

  1. April 3, 2023

    Accolades — April 2023

    Awards and honors for U-M faculty and staff.

  2. February 15, 2022

    LSA’s Chan wins Sloan Fellowship for representation theory work

    Charlotte Chan, assistant professor of mathematics in LSA, was awarded a 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship for her work in representation theory, the study of symmetries using linear algebra.

  3. August 30, 2021

    Obituary — Donald Akers Jones

    Donald Akers Jones, 90, beloved and treasured husband, father, grandfather and friend, and retired U-M math professor, died in his home in Corvallis, Oregon, on June 25.

  4. May 18, 2021

    Remembering LSA professor Charles Doering

    Charles Rogers Doering, N.D. Kazarinoff Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Mathematics and Physics and director of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, died May 15 at age 65. 

  5. September 21, 2020

    Accolades — September 2020

    Awards and honors for U-M faculty and staff.

  6. August 31, 2020

    Obituary: Peter Larkin Duren

    Peter Larkin Duren, professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, died July 10 in Superior Township, Michigan, after a long and courageous struggle with Parkinson’s disease.

  7. January 14, 2019

    Mathematician Suzanne L. Weekes to keynote Browne Colloquium

    Suzanne L. Weekes, professor of mathematical sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will deliver a lecture focusing on creating pathways for a more diverse generation of young people in mathematics communities.

  8. September 22, 2015

    Obituary: Peter Smereka

    Peter Smereka, professor of mathematics, died Sept. 15 after suffering an unexpected heart attack.