Department of Mathematics, University of Washington

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The Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington is one of the major research mathematics departments in the United States. It has an excellent research reputation, a strong, demanding program of graduate study in mathematics, and a full range of excellent undergraduate course offerings. The department has approximately 60 faculty with research interests in virtually every area of mathematics, from algebra to string theory. The department has about 90 full-time students in the graduate program and over 500 undergraduate majors, including 350 in the Mathematics undergraduate program and 150 in the joint ACMS program.

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Recent Department News

Ioana Dumitriu awarded NSF CAREER grant
June 2009: Ioana Dumitriu has received a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF awards these prestigious grants to "junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations."

2009 Mathematics Department Undergraduate Awards
June 2009: Outstanding undergraduate Mathematics and ACMS majors were honored with awards given at the annual departmental Honors Luncheon on May 28th. In addition to an award stipend, each student was given a book reflecting their mathematical interests. A full list of this year's awardees and their accompanying books may be found here.

Department receives Research Training Grant from NSF
May 2009: The Department has been awarded a Research Training Grant in Partial Differential Equations/Inverse Problems by the National Science Foundation. The award will, in particular, support the training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Gunther Uhlmann, Robin Graham, Jim Morrow, Hart Smith and Tatiana Toro are the Principal Investigators of the RTG.

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