2021
CCAM Welcomes New Faculty!
June 9, 2021
Welcome New Faculty Members!
Fourth Year CAM PhD Student Ruiyi Yang Awarded PSD Harper Fellowship
May 11, 2021
CAM PhD Student Ruiyi Yang Awarded PSD Harper Fellowship
First Year CAM PhD Student Sue Parkinson Awarded NSF Fellowship!
May 10, 2021
First Year CAM PhD Student Sue Parkinson Awarded Prestigious NSF Fellowship!
First Year CAM PhD Student Abigail Poteshman Awarded Prestigious DOE Fellowship
April 14, 2021
Abigail Poteshman Awarded Prestigious DOE Fellowship
Rebecca Willett Selected as a SIAM Fellow for 2021
March 31, 2021
Rebecca Willett Selected as a SIAM Fellow for 2021
Admissions Application Closed
January 16, 2021
Admissions Application Closed!
2020
Welcome New Kruskal Instructors!
September 30, 2020
Welcome New Kruskal Instructors!
UChicago Joins Three Universities in Institute for Foundational Data Science
September 2, 2020
Professor Rebecca Willett of the Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, along with Professors Rina Foygel Barber and Mary Silber from Statistics, will help the four-university collaboration establish the maturing field of data science while also advancing machine learning and other artificial intelligence approaches.
2020 COPSS Presidents’ Award Winner
August 10, 2020
Rina Foygel Barber was awarded the 2020 COPSS Presidents' Award, on August 5, during a JSM (virtual) ceremony. This is generally considered the highest award in statistics. Read more...
CCAM Welcomes New Faculty!
August 7, 2020
Welcome New Faculty Members!
Graduate Research Opportunties for Women 2020
July 9, 2020
September 13, October 18 and 24
University of Chicago
The GROW 2020 conference is aimed at female-identified undergraduate students who may be interested in pursuing a graduate degree in the mathematical sciences. The conference is open to undergraduates from U.S. colleges and universities, including international students. Visit: https://mathematics.uchicago.edu/grow2020/ for detailed information and updates.
Applications for GROW 2020 can be submitted at https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/966 starting April 6, 2020. The committee is currently screening applications; those submitted by September 1, 2020 will be given full consideration.
This event is being supported by the University of Chicago Department of Mathematics and the National Science Foundation.
2019
2020 Class of Fellows of the AMS
November 7, 2019
Prof. Lek-Heng Lim has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2020 for his contributions to applied mathematics, particularly numerical linear algebra.
New Initiative Brings Together AI and Science
October 22, 2019
Prof. Rebecca Willett has been leading a new initiative sponsored by the Office for National Laboratories at the University of Chicago in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab.
Workshop on Mathematical Trends in Medical Imaging - POSTPONED
September 24, 2019
Due to the evolving COVID-19 situation, the event has been postponed. This page will be updated when more information becomes available.
The workshop Mathematical Trends in Medical Imaging, organized by the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM) at the University of Chicago, will bring together researchers working on both theoretical and practical aspects of inverse problems to discuss recent trends and new challenges in the field, mainly focusing on its applications in medical imaging. Topics include, but are not limited to, mathematical modelling, analytic and geometric methods, computational approaches and numerical algorithms.
Geometric Learning Bridges Mathematics and Statistics to Marine Biology and Geophysical Sciences
September 5, 2019
Tingran Gao, William H. Kruskal Instructor, has been developing geometric learning frameworks to analyze 3-D scans of complex biological surfaces.