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Kaiqi Xiong Receives 2nd NSF Collaborative Research Grant

Kaiqi Xiong is co-principal investigator on an NSF Collaborative Research grant for $600,000 over three years for Collaborative Quantum Computing and Cybersecurity Training Through Cyberinfrastructures.

October 7, 2025Research

Lukas Koelsch

Lukas Koelsch Receives a Simons Grant

Professor Lukas Koelsch was awarded a Simons Travel Support for Mathematicians Grant for $42,000 over a five-year period for a project titled "Constructions and investigations of semifields and highly nonlinear functions, and their applications in cryptography and coding theory".

September 29, 2025Research

University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½: A Preeminent Research University

Nataša Jonoska Receives an NSF FET Grant

Nataša Jonoska received a $316,700 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Foundations of Emerging Technologies program for developing computational tools for designing complex nanoscale structures to be assembled out of parts made of DNA.

September 29, 2025Research

Kaiqi Xiong

Kaiqi Xiong Receives NSF Collaborative Research Grant

Kaiqi Xiong is principal investigator on an NSF Collaborative Research grant for $150,000 over two years for Collaborative Quantum Computing and Cybersecurity Training Through Cyberinfrastructures.

September 2, 2025Research

New Department Faculty -- 2025

The Department Welcomes New Faculty for 2025

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics welcomed three new assistant professors and three new Assistant Professors of Instruction in August of 2025.

August 25, 2025Department News

University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½: A Preeminent Research University

Research Experience for Undergraduates 2025

From May 27th to August 1st 2025, the Center for Cryptographic Research organized the 3rd edition of the Research Experience Undergraduate (REU Site) program in cryptography, coding theory and quantum computing.

August 1, 2025Research

Manougian STEM Education Center

Manougian STEM Education Center receives a $5,000 AMS Young Scholars Program award for 2025

The Manougian STEM Education Center, under the direction of Razvan Teodorescu, received a $5,000 AMS Young Scholars Program award for the second year in a row.

May 15, 2025Department News

Nataša Jonoska

Nataša Jonoska Receives Outstanding Research Achievement Award

Nataša Jonoska received the award for her interdisciplinary work, which has addressed multiple fundamental questions about nucleic acids interactions and has advanced our understanding of their spatial embeddings that affect their structure and function.

April 15, 2025Honors and Awards

Applied Number Theory Days Workshop 2025 Participants

Applied Number Theory Days Workshop 2025

The Applied Number Theory Workshop and Colloquium was held March 31st through April 4th, 2025 at °®¶¹´«Ã½. The highlight of the workshop was a series of three lectures by Professor Andrea Ferraguti from Università di Torino on Arboreal Galois Representations.

April 4, 2025Research

New Department Faculty -- 2024

The Department Welcomes New Faculty for 2024

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics welcomed three new assistant professors and two new Assistant Professors of Instruction in August of 2024.

August 19, 2024Department News

University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½: A Preeminent Research University

Giacomo Micheli Receives an NSF CAREER Award

Giacomo Micheli received an NSF CAREER award of $500,000 over five years to work on rank metric codes from Drinfeld Modules and new primitives in code-based cryptography.

July 22, 2024Research

Manougian STEM Education Center

Manougian STEM Education Center receives a $5,000 AMS Young Scholars Program award for 2024

The Manougian STEM Education Center, under the direction of Razvan Teodorescu, received a $5,000 AMS Young Scholars Program award. The Manougian STEM Education Center resumed organizing its summer school in June 2024.

July 15, 2024Department News

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