Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Spotlight

Troy Butler, Professor of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, is a co-author on a new book published by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, entitled A Ramble Through Probability: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Measure Theory. Go here for more information and to order:

A team of eight faculty members from the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences received a $68,671 award from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) for their proposal entitled “Mathematics and Data Science Z-degrees at CU Denver.” This will be funded with the 2024-25 cohort 6 cycle as part...

Three students in Mathematical and Statistical Science were recently featured in the CU Denver News article Eight CU Denver Women Who Inspire Us : Angela Morrison , PhD student, Department of Math & Statistical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS): After getting her master’s in industrial math at...

Associate Professor of Mathematical and Sciences Troy Butler is the University of Colorado Denver recipient of the 22-23 Open Educational Resources (OER) Champion Award . This award recognizes significant achievements of faculty, staff, and students in expanding the use of open educational resources. Butler is being commended for his considerable...

Drew Horton won first prize for the recent OR/MS Tomorrow mini poster competition . His poster is titled, ``The Impact of Considering Equity in Optimization for Urban Planning.” This equity related research was advised by Emily Speakman. The OR/MS Tomorrow mini poster competition, supported by the Seth Bonder Foundation, seeks...

The Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at now has its own mural in the office suite in Student Commons Building. The artist Drew Horton, PhD student in the department, completed the design in Spring and the painting over two weeks in Summer. Each section represents a research group in...

Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Associate Professor Troy Butler was recently awarded $375,400 by the National Science Foundation for the project, " Advancing the Data-to-Distribution Pipeline for Scalable Data-Consistent Inversion to Quantify Uncertainties in Coastal Hazards ” Coastal hazards are a persistent threat to citizenry, industry, and governments worldwide. Of particular...

Congrats to Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Professor Florian Pfender for receiving an NSF Focused Research Groups in the Mathematical Sciences award. The title of the award is " Generalized Turan Problems ." This is a collaboration with University of Illinois and Iowa State University. The CU Denver award is $370,085.

The Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP) is pleased to announce the results of the 38th annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM). Honorable Mention (top 30%) went to CU Denver’s ICB-CAU Xu Yilei, Xu Tianyang, and Xu Luru for “ Problem C: Trading Strategies .” This problem had over...

CLAS faculty and students are invited to use the NSF funded High Performance Computing cluster Alderaan. The cluster, funded by NSF grant 2019089 CC* Compute: Accelerating Science and Education by Campus and Grid Computing , already has users from several departments. Interested faculty can fill the form linked at this...