The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is a teaching and research-oriented department that offers graduate degrees (M.S. and Ph.D.) and undergraduate degrees in Pure and Applied Mathematics and Statistics. With over 40 faculty members with roughly two-thirds of those in tenured or tenure-track positions, the department offers a wide range of experts to advise students and do research.

Recent news from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics

A satellite image of a storm sweeping across California and into the Sierra Nevada. The storm is overlaid with pixels of various colors.

Holistic precipitation models in the age of climate change

Two statistics professors developed a stochastic model used to predict precipitation intensity

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Tiny bacterial motions could provide big help in medical diagnosis

Statisticians trained a machine learning model to classify bacterial states

Andrew Siciliano smiles in front of a brick building and a leafy tree.

Geology student receives Goldwater Scholarship

Andrew Siciliano wants to pursue geochemistry research

Bringing leaders in mathematics and statistics to our campus

World-class mathematical research and cutting-edge topics are presented in our department in our colloquia and seminars.

Department Colloquia and seminars