Mathematics And Statistical Sciences

Tutor Anne Kreeck, MS in Applied Mathematics, '26, reviews a math concept with student Yitong Lin, BA in Economics, '27.

Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Math and Stat Tutoring Center

Feb. 24, 2026

Struggling with math? You’re not alone. Many learners find the subject challenging. But, sitting with someone who has been in your shoes before—and who can now explain those difficult concepts—can go a long way.

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Math equations floating around a brain.

Troy Butler and Co-author Published in International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification

Jan. 13, 2026

A new research article by Dr. Troy Butler, faculty member in the department, and his co-authors has been published in the International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification.

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CU Denver ICB Students Earn Top “Outstanding” Honors in National Math Modeling Challenge

Jan. 13, 2026

Two student teams based in ICB earned an OUTSTANDING rating at the SCUDEM–SIMIODE Challenge.

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CU Denver Learning Assistants in the Physics II classroom

An NSF Grant Will Support More Learning Assistants on Campus

Dec. 9, 2025

The funding will help expand the successful College of Liberal Arts and Sciences program within the College of Engineering, Design and Computing. Abigail Hollmann was headed for a career in health care when she first came to CU Denver—but she was dreading the physics classes she’d have to take as...

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Celebrating the Successful Julia Programming Workshop

Sept. 30, 2025

Huge thanks to everyone who joined our Julia Programming Workshop!

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Six Dirichlet Classifiers charts

Publication Achievement: PhD Student Courtney Franzen’s Paper Accepted for Oral Presentation at the Prestigious IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)

Sept. 22, 2025

The Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences is proud to announce that PhD student Courtney Franzen has had her paper accepted for an oral presentation at the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA).

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Dr.Emily Speakaman's Attendance at the STOGO.

Faculty Dr. Emily Speakman Attends Stockholm Global Optimization Workshop (STOGO) 2025

Sept. 22, 2025

We are proud to share that Dr. Emily presented her research "On the Convex Hull of the Graph of the Simple Monomial", at the Global Optimization Workshop (STOGO) at Stockholm, Sweden!

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Smoke from Idaho’s Elkhorn fire blankets the Salmon River on July 31, 2023. Photo credit: Brian Maffly.

Wildfires Are Changing the Air We Breathe—Here’s What That Means for Your Health

Sept. 22, 2025

As wildfires grow larger and more frequent across the West, researchers from Colorado, Utah, and California are digging into how smoke affects the air—and our health.

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Picture of the project that works to show that role of water molecules in the toxic plaques, focusing on hydration shells around both native and chemically modified amyloid-beta species.

NIH Awards $467,000 Grant to Study Internal Water Dynamics in Alzheimer's Disease

Sept. 2, 2025

NIH funds $467,000 study led by Vugmeyster and Ostrovsky, investigating hydration shells of amyloid-beta peptides to uncover water’s role in Alzheimer’s plaque formation and progression.

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Dr. Kathryn Hamilton and Dr. Julien Langou present at the 2025 NSF CSSI PI Meeting

Aug. 8, 2025

Good job to these two for representing CU Denver at the NSF CSSI PI meeting!

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