Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) is a national mathematics honor society for college and university students. It was founded in 1914 and its primary goal is to promote scholarship and mathematical activity among students. Rhode Island Alpha, is the 88th Pi Mu Epsilon Chapter established at the University of Rhode Island on April 26, 1962. This […]

The 15th URI Calc-Bowl took place on April 2, 2025. This year, ten teams from Rhode Island high schools competed. Calc-Bowl is presented annually by the URI Math Department with the support from the URI College of Arts and Sciences. Calc-Bowl is a lively mathematics competition where precalculus and calculus questions are given in multiple-choice format. The […]

KINGSTON, RI – March 19, 2025—The URI Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) hosted its inaugural event on February 3, with guest speaker Dr. Sarah Olson, a URI alum. The AWM was founded in 1971 by a group of women mathematicians to promote gender equality and equal opportunity in the mathematics field. It now has […]

The URI Calc-Bowl is back in Spring 2025. Calc-Bowl is a lively playoff competition between teams to test the teams’ math knowledge. Pre-calculus and calculus questions are presented in multiple-choice format. There will be 10-15 teams consisting of three to five members. One multiple-choice problem will be presented at a time. The first team to […]

Congratulations to Professors Li Wu and Bill Kinnersley on their 2024 Recognition of Excellence: Student Learning Outcomes Assessment. Professors Wu and Kinnersley are recognized for their outstanding work in learning outcomes assessment on behalf of the Mathematics BA/BS program during the 2024 assessment cycle. The letter of recognitions says: “Faculty peer reviewers commended your efforts […]

Here is the story of Jonah Coppolelli, our Applied Mathematics major, and his relationship with mathematics in his own words. “My name is Jonah Coppolelli, and I am a senior dual majoring in Applied Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering. I am thrilled to share that I recently accepted a position in MTU Aero-Engines’ Rotational Engineering Program. […]

Join us on February 3rd, Monday, at 2:00pm, Lippitt Hall 4th floor Auditorium, for an the inaugural talk: “Modeling the dynamics of centrosome movement” by Dr. Sarah Olson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Abstract: In this talk I will first given an overview of my mathematical journey and how I ended up focusing on computational biology research. […]

The First International On-line Knot Theory Congress takes place February 1 – 5, 2025. This conference gathers leading mathematicians in low-dimensional topology around the world such as Dr. Louis Kauffman and Dr. Edward Witten. Our faculty member Dr. Pengyu Liu has been invited to present his research at this prestigious conference. Dr. Liu will present […]

Congratulation to our faculty member Nhu Nguyen! Nhu has been awarded an NSF grant: DMS-2407669 Collaborative Research: Stochastic Functional Systems: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications. Dates: August 1, 2024 — July 31, 2027 (Estimated). Amount: $198,173.00. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2407669&HistoricalAwards=false ABSTRACT: The time evolution of many physical, biological, and engineering systems is described by functional differential equations, where the […]

Congratulation to our faculty member Kelum Gajamannage! Kelum has been awarded an NSF grant: DMS-2418826 LEAPS-MPS: Hadamard Deep Autoencoders and Alternating Directional Methods of Multipliers for Manifold Learning Enabled Distance Preserving Matrix Completion. Dates: September 1, 2024 — August 31, 2026 (Estimated). Amount: $249,926.00. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2418826&HistoricalAwards=false ABSTRACT: Data sampled from real-world applications such as image inpainting […]